I read the Russellfic you posted after Locked Rooms - I've got to ask. Why Johnathan, as a name? It's small and it's petty and I keep thinking Russell would want to name any kids after/in honor of her deceased family members.

Why Jonathan? The fandomlet is full of kiddies named for Russell's parents -- well, generally her mother, since we only just got a name for her father -- and I wanted to separate myself a bit. Plus, even though I know it's common in real life, I'm always a bit weirded out by fandom's insistence on naming offspring after existing characters. "Jonathan" riffs on "John", for Watson, but is also Jewish.

His middle name is probably Levi, though, for her brother. And if it looks like I've been thinking about this too much, well, I kind of have several much-longer drafts featuring him. *eyedart*

LRK/Chalion. Wow. Details?

*grin*

Random, isn't it? But cesario and I were talking about the Chalion novels, and the appeal of a universe where characters have a patron deity. We started sorting people from other books, as you do, and she suggested that Russell would be of the Father. Which made sense in a lot of ways, but also raised questions, and the more we discussed it, the more a narrative started to emerge. So I started writing, although I'm not entirely sure how well I can pull it off, since moving a character like Holmes into a universe like this one is ... tricky.