sholio: sun on winter trees (0)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote 2025-04-17 08:36 pm (UTC)

One of the things that is so fascinating about the show's reintroduction of Na'Toth even in this one-off fashion is how much of a time capsule she is—which does come through in your fic—not only in the sense of all the events she hasn't yet caught up on, but what she wakes up in G'Kar and Londo.

Yes! In particular, that fight in the cell is so interesting because they're both reverting, to a degree. Part of it is obviously that it's an incredibly tense situation and G'Kar is dealing with a major emotional mess, between finding out that his friend is alive and that she's in the condition she's in and that she's also possibly going to die if they can't rescue her. But also, they've both been knocked to some extent into an earlier version of their orbit, not in an out-of-character way (which was actually what I felt about "Day of the Dead", although placing it earlier in the season makes *way* more sense so I'm just gonna do that), but in a way that is perfectly in tune with the situation they're currently in.

There's also quite a lot about their uneven and bloody history that they really haven't processed fully, and now suddenly they're having to do it in a dungeon cell that is bringing up a lot of repressed trauma for both of them. They just went through an assassination attempt with G'Kar pushing Londo out of the way and yelling at him to run, and Londo trying to claw his way through a door to get back to him; now G'Kar is telling him very seriously that he's going to kill him if Londo doesn't find a way to get Na'Toth out of the cell that his people buried her in, and he means it, and it's completely in character. (It's also interesting to think that, if Londo walked away from this, then G'Kar probably *would* try to kill him, because he's not the man G'Kar believes he is. But instead he's become a person who won't walk away; he thinks about it until he finds a way to solve the problem, and very cleverly too.)

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