I've come recently to the Guy/Marian dynamic, and this is one of the most perceptive and best-written descriptions of it I've found. You absolutely capture the essence of them here.
He is so weak, in all the ways that matter.
Guy is the flawed tragedy hero, whose essence you catch here.
and Now she is struck all at once by the memory of his voice, something he told her long ago – I will keep giving. He no longer seems to set much stock in the notion of buying her heart, not really – he's learned better – and she feels a strange nostalgia for the way things had been then.
It's a doomed relationship, but it's not entirely one-sided, and youn show this very well too.
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Date: 2008-12-21 12:19 am (UTC)He is so weak, in all the ways that matter.
Guy is the flawed tragedy hero, whose essence you catch here.
and Now she is struck all at once by the memory of his voice, something he told her long ago – I will keep giving. He no longer seems to set much stock in the notion of buying her heart, not really – he's learned better – and she feels a strange nostalgia for the way things had been then.
It's a doomed relationship, but it's not entirely one-sided, and youn show this very well too.
Have you written more? This is marvellous!