For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

*laughs faintly* Oh, I love that. I do love it. One of these days, I want to meet the person in my subconscious who plots things out, and remembers things I didn't even know I knew (or possibly didn't know, and it's just some strange form of serendipity that does this), and senses where the stories are meant to go. Seriously. I want to meet them. Because obviously they are much, much better at this writing thing than I am. *grins, shakes head at self*

I was browsing around name meanings, you see. Got bounced around a little bit. Came across 'Isandro', bouncing from 'Iskander' (arabic form of Alexander). One of the variants of Isandro is Isander, which means man's liberator. *laughs helplessly* I swear, I swear, if I know these things when I think them up, I don't know about it. They just ... happen.

And the thing of it is, Isander? Chose his own name. In-story, I mean. He chose that. His author may not have known, but he did. He was designed as a non-person, to be the jailor of men. And he chose the name 'man's liberator'.

... I don't know if that's because he hoped, or planned, or if it was a very black and bitter sort of irony that only later became truth. Knowing Isander ... probably the latter. It would be ... very him, to name himself, the secret part of him, for a quality he was not designed to possess, and thought he would never be allowed, and desperately, desperately hoped for.

I wonder if Dowling ever fully understood what he did for Isander, in accepting that name as the truth of him. I wonder if he ever knew. Heh.

Seriously, though. Writer-type person in my subconscious? I really, really would like to meet you. *shakes head, bemused*

I just like writing them whenever I'm a bit down, that's all.

Title:  Trembling
Rating:  PG-13
Universe:  Galactic Duality
Characters/Pairings:  Isander, Dowling/Isander
Summary:  He was old, when we went out among the stars. And I was breaking.
Wordcount:  1061
Claimer:  Mine

( Trembling )

The stories, in chronological order of reading, not of writing, since I bounce around this 'verse like a lemming with ADHD. Dowling, Isander, telepathy, humans, machines, galaxies, pain and love. Updated as required (ie when I remember).

Title:  Helping hands
Rating:  PG-13
Universe:  Galactic Duality
Characters/Pairings:  Dowling/Isander, as 29 and the madman
Summary:  Helping hands and testy smiles, and two people find their names and each other
Continuity:  Right at the start of their story, before they really know each other
Wordcount:  2466
Notes:  for a musing_way prompt, and because Jen asked how 29 became Isander, way back when.
Claimer:  MINE

( Helping Hands )