nano ramblings and twin bonds

[kippurbird]

I'm actually using this as an opportunity to hopefully finish Death God Rising, so I'm starting in near the beginning here, but there's already written stuff. I've just incapacitated four out of eight of the team members. Two of the team members got whammied when they undid a series of Wards in Maine. The backlash took out two other members. Adrian, the ritual mage, is one of a trio of triplets. His sisters are in Los Angeles. While they don't have the MYSTICAL MAGICAL UBERSPECIAL twin/triplet bond found in a lot of fantasy fiction.

For which they're grateful for considering some of their sex lives. Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of people don't seem to get the full repercussions of having a 'twin bond'. If you can feel anything that your twin is feeling, that has got to be awkward when one is having sex and the other isn't. Especially if you're a guy, if you know what I mean. Sure they talk about violence that the twins feel against one another (Oh NO MY TWIN IS HURT!) but emotions and physical feelings aren't just restricted to violence.

Someone should explore this.

Anyway, what happens with the triplets is that since they developed together in the same womb their magical connections are tied together. When Adrian used up all of his reserves the connection went to his sisters to take some of theirs to keep him alive. Sort of like a mystical life line. Kale and Trever - the Delvar twins- would have a stronger reaction as they're identical instead of fraternal twins, though they still don't have a 'twin bond'.

And that is what I did to my characters.

I'm trying to do a massive word count the next three days because on Friday I'm going to Disneyland for my brother's birthday and we're staying overnight. There is no way in hell I'll be able to do any sort of writing after a day at Disneyland, so I'm buffering up my count so I don't miss any deadlines.

Comments

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

LOL There was a Mercedes Lackey book where that happened - young boy gets laid for the first time, it gets passed along to his brother who didn't know how to shield against it (or even that there was something his brother was doing that he might want to block out.) Rather embarrassing all around.

[swevene.livejournal.com]

I know Tylendel and Stefen did that in Magic's Pawn, but it was on purpose and it ended up having rather sad consequences for Tylendel, who was the one on the not-getting-laid end of the link.

[swevene.livejournal.com]

Er, not Stefen, Staven. Whoops!

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

You know, I'd forgotten that it was on purpose. And Tylendel was just generally shit out of luck in a lot of areas.

[autarkhos.livejournal.com]

In the Wheel of Time books, there's a "magic spell" that allows a person to be "bound" to another person. It gives both special abilities etc.

The "spellcasters" (all women) are only allowed to do it to men. It's revealed later on, after a series of events that forced a woman to bond a woman, that it's because they share feelings far too much. One has sex, the other gets extremely aroused, one gets drunk, the other starts acting drunk too. The gender difference is the buffer between them, essentially, because of the difference in feelings, they can sense each other's emotions but don't share them.