I'm trying to figure out how to do it in tight-Delia POV, because I always write tight POV, and the thing is, I think a lot of Delia's form of classism involves abstract "duty to her fief" combined with not really noticing servants (kind of like in Cherryh Cyteen books, where citizens don't notice azi unless they're having sex with them, but azi notice everyone--but this is demonstrated by switching POV). I'll have to think about it.
(It does kind of bug me how invisible/absent personal servants are in SOTL, although I think that's partially a function of Alanna's filter--oddly, since she does seem to notice and quasi-befriend servants. Since these young noblewomen are going to court without their parents, you'd think their servants would be something like chaperones, and where's Delia's servant when she's conspiring with Roger? Why does no one really notice how much time she spends in Roger's rooms? Still struggling with this.)
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Date: 21 Jan 2011 07:55 pm (UTC)From:I'm trying to figure out how to do it in tight-Delia POV, because I always write tight POV, and the thing is, I think a lot of Delia's form of classism involves abstract "duty to her fief" combined with not really noticing servants (kind of like in Cherryh Cyteen books, where citizens don't notice azi unless they're having sex with them, but azi notice everyone--but this is demonstrated by switching POV). I'll have to think about it.
(It does kind of bug me how invisible/absent personal servants are in SOTL, although I think that's partially a function of Alanna's filter--oddly, since she does seem to notice and quasi-befriend servants. Since these young noblewomen are going to court without their parents, you'd think their servants would be something like chaperones, and where's Delia's servant when she's conspiring with Roger? Why does no one really notice how much time she spends in Roger's rooms? Still struggling with this.)