Starting Word Count: 10.235 New Word Count: 11.031 My work is: I managed to get back in touch with the story and have a better grip of how it's going to end. What's still fuzzy is the middle with all that kinky, therapeutic sex I had planned. Sixteen pages of tattoo magic, lots of notes on the ending, but no sex in sight. That's so me. :-) Snippet: Here, have some tattoo magic:
Draco, who had started to nibble on his sandwich, put it down with a frown. “I thought I’d told you why I wanted a tattoo. What else do you have to know and why?”
“Everything. See, a magical tattoo is a lot more complicated than a Muggle tattoo, because it involves magic.”
“And that means what exactly?”
“Magic influences tattoos in several ways: they hold magic potential, they are bound to the magic of the one who wears them, and they are created by the use of magic. To illustrate the first point: magical tattoos can be designed to protect the wearer or enhance a certain theme. To, for example, counter a spell left by a curse scar, the tattoo has to work magic of its own. So the client has to specify what kind of magic they want.”
Draco stopped chewing. “I didn’t know that.”
“Not many do. But to give you an example, just think of the Dark Mark. Voldemort used it to communicate with his followers, to summon them and to have them call him in return. It was, basically, a combination of a personalised floo-network and bondage ritual.” Pansy giggled. “The magic that fed every Mark was the magic of the wizard wearing it. But the main element binding them all together was that of devotion – to the cause, and even more to Voldemort himself. That’s why all Death Eaters wore the same tattoo: it bound them together, no matter how much they hated each other.”
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Rorschach Trajectories (Pansy/Draco)
Date: 2011-01-19 08:55 pm (UTC)New Word Count: 11.031
My work is: I managed to get back in touch with the story and have a better grip of how it's going to end. What's still fuzzy is the middle with all that kinky, therapeutic sex I had planned. Sixteen pages of tattoo magic, lots of notes on the ending, but no sex in sight. That's so me. :-)
Snippet: Here, have some tattoo magic:
Draco, who had started to nibble on his sandwich, put it down with a frown. “I thought I’d told you why I wanted a tattoo. What else do you have to know and why?”
“Everything. See, a magical tattoo is a lot more complicated than a Muggle tattoo, because it involves magic.”
“And that means what exactly?”
“Magic influences tattoos in several ways: they hold magic potential, they are bound to the magic of the one who wears them, and they are created by the use of magic. To illustrate the first point: magical tattoos can be designed to protect the wearer or enhance a certain theme. To, for example, counter a spell left by a curse scar, the tattoo has to work magic of its own. So the client has to specify what kind of magic they want.”
Draco stopped chewing. “I didn’t know that.”
“Not many do. But to give you an example, just think of the Dark Mark. Voldemort used it to communicate with his followers, to summon them and to have them call him in return. It was, basically, a combination of a personalised floo-network and bondage ritual.” Pansy giggled. “The magic that fed every Mark was the magic of the wizard wearing it. But the main element binding them all together was that of devotion – to the cause, and even more to Voldemort himself. That’s why all Death Eaters wore the same tattoo: it bound them together, no matter how much they hated each other.”