I have always had the urge, since deciding to make SNathan a shellperson, to change my mind and let him get out and about.

I rejected this, because it always seemed too much like cheesy wish-fulfilment. Emphasis of problem on the cheesy.

Now, the other day I was listening to the english version of SES' Dreams Come True and had this sudden image of Yui holding SNathan (the real one, deformities and all) tenderly as he slowly died without his life support...

Then using her last wish to heal him, make him whole.

At first, I though that he'd have been decanted by some outside force, but then I realized that McCaffrey had handed me a ready-made psychological drama to go with my little scene:

Fixation.

All of this of course depends on whether or not I have the skill to show this happening to Yui, then follow through on how it changes things inside them and between them.

Well. For sometime in the future.

Blessed be.
-n

In at least one of that series of books one of the shell people has a android body made that she can remote pilot. I forget which one, been a while since I read them.

Ship Who Searched, with Mercedes Lackey.

Given the technology presented there, or for that matter in the Spiral, such designs should certainly be possible.

It's just... seems like a cheap way out.

And I see this moment in my head, horrible yes but mostly tender and beautiful because she's -not- horrified or disgusted... at least not until she starts thinking again (doesn't take that long, since this is Yui) and realizes that she's as good as killed him.

Fixation has certain signs when it starts to happen. When it happens in a Humanx esper, say the Psi Corps has jurisdiction... which would place the timing for this pretty well - right when the Corps is at its very worst.

So, we have Yui getting deeper and deeper into this delusion - helped along by the fact that she thinks of him in terms of the perfectly healthy person she knew in the book - and Nate -knowing- what's happening but not calling for help because if he -does- it'll go to the Corps and he'd rather die himself than do that to his Lady Yui.

Hmmm. Wild ride, especially if I have her start showing signs from the very beginning.

Blessed be.
-n