Chapter 3 of The Heart's Landscape is up.

[tocryabout]

"Legal Age Life at Dépanneur" is up. It's a long one, at 8,500 words, but it has an explosion in it.

[Read from the beginning.]

I should mention (somewhere, anyway) that I'm using the Ultimate version of Jean-Paul's backstory, more or less -- I find it more believable than the Alpha Flight version, especially since we really don't have violent separatistes anymore. Jeanne-Marie and Jean-Paul have been separated since the death of their parents, but Jean-Paul was adopted by the Martins while Jeanne-Marie was sent to Madame DuPont's.

Comments

[brownbetty]

Brilliant.

Joel's distress at the beginning was so plain it was difficult for me to read.

I don't think I realized how mutants were treated under the law until the police arrived, and then I felt sick. My god, it's different to see your own country's name attached to that sort of thing, I hadn't realized the effect it would have.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

That's how I always felt about Weapon X in the comics, actually. It is different when it's your own country, and I wanted to hit a good balance between traditional Marvel "OMG THEY HATE MUTANTS" and the way I think Canada would deal with something like that: massive bureaucracy. I don't think the hatred would be as visceral here as Marvel portrays it in the States, but I think there would be a lot of enthusiasm for order, at any price.