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White Lies by Selena (G)
Fandom: BABYLON 5
Pairing: None
Length: Short
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak
Author Website: Fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
Selena is one of the shining stars of this fandom, and I'm going to be reccing her heavily this month, because she doesn't just stake out one territory or one pairing and do it well, she tackles a new character or a new idea in every story, and every story is uniquely breathtaking and brilliant. Here, she looks at what happened to Emperor Turhan's telepaths after he dies, something that the episode leaves unexplored.
As the four telepaths destined to serve the Emperor had to be linked across time and space, their entire childhood was driven by the need to create such a bond. Like all their predecessors, they had been selected from those rare children who were telepathic from birth. They never knew their parents; faithful to tradition, the records of their origin had been erased as soon as it had become apparent that the four of them were compatible with each other and had started to form what the Centauri referred to as "lidara", a flower with only four leaves. No family should be able to claim their loyalties, after all, and they should be loyal to none but the Emperor himself.
It had not been difficult for them. Turhan was a kind man, who had treated them as his children, not as tools, and his tender concern soothed them during the horrors of adolescence, when their bodies suddenly started to remind them they were not, in fact, the same person. When the first of their predecessors died, they had watched Turhan visit the other three on their sickbeds. The Emperor had tried to persuade the Lidara of his youth to remain alive, even without their fourth, but was not surprised when he failed. He had remained with them till their deaths. If the Lidara formed of Merit, Liriel, Alaris and Sidonia had not been loyal to Turhan out of tradition, training and childhood affection, they would have learned to love him then.
White Lies
Pairing: None
Length: Short
Author on LJ:
selenakAuthor Website: Fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:
Selena is one of the shining stars of this fandom, and I'm going to be reccing her heavily this month, because she doesn't just stake out one territory or one pairing and do it well, she tackles a new character or a new idea in every story, and every story is uniquely breathtaking and brilliant. Here, she looks at what happened to Emperor Turhan's telepaths after he dies, something that the episode leaves unexplored.
As the four telepaths destined to serve the Emperor had to be linked across time and space, their entire childhood was driven by the need to create such a bond. Like all their predecessors, they had been selected from those rare children who were telepathic from birth. They never knew their parents; faithful to tradition, the records of their origin had been erased as soon as it had become apparent that the four of them were compatible with each other and had started to form what the Centauri referred to as "lidara", a flower with only four leaves. No family should be able to claim their loyalties, after all, and they should be loyal to none but the Emperor himself.
It had not been difficult for them. Turhan was a kind man, who had treated them as his children, not as tools, and his tender concern soothed them during the horrors of adolescence, when their bodies suddenly started to remind them they were not, in fact, the same person. When the first of their predecessors died, they had watched Turhan visit the other three on their sickbeds. The Emperor had tried to persuade the Lidara of his youth to remain alive, even without their fourth, but was not surprised when he failed. He had remained with them till their deaths. If the Lidara formed of Merit, Liriel, Alaris and Sidonia had not been loyal to Turhan out of tradition, training and childhood affection, they would have learned to love him then.
White Lies
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