Golden Temple; Blue Eyes
Monday, March 23, 2009
She lives in a golden temple; His eyes are blue. (Mal/Inara) Part one of <i>If's & Maybe's</i>, a series of unrelated pieces dedicated to exploring the characters of Mal and Inara, and the relationship between them.
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Golden Temple; Blue Eyes
Author's Note: Written for the 2by2fics community on LiveJournal. This is not a part of the Keeping On 'Verse.
This is part of If's & Maybe's, a series of unrelated pieces dedicated to exploring the characters of Mal and Inara, and the relationship between them.
Disclaimer: Firefly, Serenity, and all related characters are copyright 2002-2005 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. This is a work of fanfiction. No copyright infringement is intended.
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She lives in a golden temple, it seems.
She is so far up above him and he spends his dreams dreaming of her and trying to find a way to climb up and reach her where she lives in her little tower – far away from the common man. In his dreams he sees princes with hair of onyx and eyes of emerald climb up, up, up her hair and sweep her off of her feet with romance and flowers and sex before placing her back in her tower for the next prince to come along and rescue her for a night.
Bad, wrong-doing, petty criminal pirates like him don’t get to climb up that hair and save her from herself. Men like him don’t get to romance her and give her flowers or feel her warm beneath them. Men like him get to argue with her and toss insults at her and feel the deep and stinging slash of the cuts they give each other because they don’t know better.
Men like him can only sit outside the golden temple where she lives and hope to catch a glance.
Sometimes the glance hurts more than not seeing her at all.
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His eyes are blue, she notices.
His eyes seem hollow and dark and sometimes lifeless as they take in the ‘Verse that surrounds him. Other times they light up and life shines through and he seems to be completely whole.
But that only happens when they argue. It only happens when they both want to make the other hurt as much as possible.
Blue is supposed to be a calming and reflective color…only a man like him could take that kind of a color and turn it into
You can't take the sky from me
I love character and relationship studies like this. Particularly THEIR characters and relationship. It's so twisty and tragic and beautiful.
And I love this one. Nice imagery, I especially like that Repunzel insight. And that hurting glance... And I hope someday poor Inara realizes it's not the ARGUMENTS that give him life. Remember the scenes he went to rescue her at the training house; even before they said anything to each other, he was happier than he'd been since she left.
Agree with Amdobell--that line rings true for them also, and is one of the better lines.
I don't know if I agree with introducing Mal's blue eyes with the entire 'Verse smack in the middle of the sentence though. Still I like the dyptych.
I'm not so sure about all the intentional hurt that this implies.
I'm reading more or less that Mal could offer Inara freedom from her Golden Tower, and Inara could offer a healed heart to Mal, if they crossed that great divide. If so, I like that thought. It's very beautiful.
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