Subject: Christianne's surname is pulled from my elementary school friend's, and --
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Posted on: 2021-08-17 00:54:04 UTC

-- in elementary school the closest most people got to saying it correct was saying it like "Shay". The proper pronunciation is alluded to when C mentioned her Chinese name: Xie is the pinyin for it, but I know the X probably throws people for a curve if they're not accustomed to pinyin. It's /ɕe/ in IPA, where the ɕ is like the sh in 'sheep', but a bit palatalised, and then e is like the eh sound in "hey". Not sure if that helps, either! /takes off linguist hat

In 2017 (2016 in-universe) I had a Last Mission (that I thought was the Last Mission before this one) where C began to think about burnout on the job and retiring, which is sort of alluded to in this bit. I thought I'd tug on that thread a little more here, especially since in the previous Last Mission they did assassinate the Sue in the end. It's half out of continuity because a bunch of well-known writers in the fandom the badfic is set in make cameos in it, so I only show it to people upon request (cough, hint) and only the stuff concerning E and C are canonical. I think this one is a much better Last Mission, though, since it wraps up a lot of the loose ends I had floating around from 2008! And I hope to tie up more with parts 3 and 4 of the backstory stitch-up fic too.

LSY is actually my current darling so I'm pretty amused that you found him boring at first! He does come across that way especially in comparison with your average unhinged PPC agent, but I promise, still waters run very, very deep ;P I'm glad the cultural details were cool because I also think he and Christianne are sorta foils to one another in terms of cultural competence -- Christianne was created when I was actively running away from my culture, and LSY is now the product of me running back towards it. I don't fully intend on putting Christianne and Eledhwen in cold storage so to speak, since with the whole John rehabilitation thing they may show up in interludes -- it's just, if/when I do get around to tackling "Sxytmes wth Wngx*an", LSY will be taking point on it. E and C won't be doing missions anymore :P

And as for LSY interacting with others, that's actually the topic of the next batch of interludes I'm co-writing with Zing! You're going to see the dinner unfold, haha

Yes! I've been chatting with hS about the new DAS, so I'm hoping to get more into that (I had a thought of Lori and Bill doing something like this blog post from these two scientists who ate fly agaric) and besides, Lori shows up in parts 3 and 4 of the backstory stitch-up. Also the Floaters that had been trapped in the Mirror Multiverse in IAHF2, too! I'm looking forward to being able to give them all some screen time.

Thank you again for reading! I really enjoy your thoughts on the things I write!

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