Amanda ([info]isis2015) wrote in [info]lostfichallenge,
@ 2006-02-10 21:09:00
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Entry tags:challenge #26 - character, sun

Challenge 26 - Character
Title: Survival Instinct
Rating: PG
Pairing: Just Sun. :)
Warning: Spoilers for "The Long Con".



Sun wished she could say something dramatic, like her entire life passed before her eyes when she felt that bag over her head. The truth of the matter was, that wasn’t what had happened at all. It’s difficult for your life to pass before your eyes when your survival instincts are the first things to kick in.

She wasn’t strong. She wasn’t big. She knew she couldn’t fight off…whoever it was attacking her. But she tried. She fought and she kicked and she screamed and she pulled. Because she had to try.

All of her life, everyone had tried to lay everything out for her. They believed she was incapable of doing anything for herself. If she showed the slightest bit of independence, her parents would shake their heads and sigh. Even Jin had been like that at times. She didn’t believe he thought she was weak, but that did not keep him from treating her that way.

When it came right down to it, deep inside, Sun believed she had always been fighting. She fought for respect. She fought for love. And she fought for her life. Because succeeding wasn’t the point. It wasn’t what she lived for. She lived to be her own person. And the person that she was, the person that she made herself, fought hard. No matter what.

She sat straight up, with a backache, a headache, a general ache in just about every part of her body. She blinked a few times, eyes adjusting to the sun and the light flooding in around her.

A slow smile crept across her face. She had done it. She had survived.


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[info]holycitygirl
2006-02-12 05:57 pm UTC (link)
When it came right down to it, deep inside, Sun believed she had always been fighting.

Brilliant observation babe. Soooo true. I love this. You definately have your girl figured out.

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[info]isis2015
2006-02-12 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. :D I'm so glad. I love Sun and I want to believe I did her justice. Hee! You called her my girl. Which she so is (and I've said, like a thousand times ;D).

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mr_pooch
2006-02-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Wow, beautiful charachterization-hehe, big word.

I really liked this, you have Sun's voice down really well: nice to hear from a charachter who doesn't really talk too often about herself.

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[info]isis2015
2006-02-13 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Thank you very much. :) I love Sun very much. She's severly underused and underrated.

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mr_pooch
2006-02-13 10:27 pm UTC (link)
I can't remember if we had an episode from her this season, but I want another one! I was so excited for last week's-because I thought it might be her. Oh well.

Good fic!

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[info]isis2015
2006-02-13 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Well one of the episodes earlier in the season was a Jin/Sun episode. But I'm not going to complain about her sharing screen time because there was plenty of Sun.

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[info]azuremonkey
2006-02-21 10:53 pm UTC (link)
Beautiful observations and well-written. Very nice fic.

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[info]isis2015
2006-02-22 04:24 am UTC (link)
Thank you very much. :)

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[info]cynthia_arrow
2006-02-22 04:56 am UTC (link)
Ahh...this is the Sun I'm trying to channel in my Sawyer/Sun series--she's tough, but in a quiet, unassuming way. This was a lovely portrait of her spirit.

OMG, and your "I was attacked by a hobbit" icon is fabulous!

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[info]isis2015
2006-02-22 05:14 am UTC (link)
Thank you very much. :D Sun is a wonderful character to write. Once, [info]uberaeryn had Sawyer describe her as quiet, but "with a spine made of steel" in a fic, and that always stuck with me. 'Cause that's what she is. I'm glad you liked it.

Isn't that icon fabulous. Made by the ever wonderful, always funny [info]mysticxf. :D

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[info]jenthegypsy
2006-03-29 03:14 am UTC (link)
Brilliant! So glad you will be writing Sun for [info]psych_30. There is a great deal of potential within her character, and you seem to channel her very well.

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[info]isis2015
2006-03-29 04:04 am UTC (link)
Well thank you very much. :) I'm glad you liked it.

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