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So this is geeky, but I wrote some fan fiction for B5--which is a series i love to death but it seems will never again be continued or re-run or have a director's cut blu-ray release etc, etc, it's dead--dead since years ago.
This adds a little backstory to the character Delenn.
It is not erotic fan fiction or slash. It is just fan fiction.
*newfag: I never learned to do text formatting on 7chan, some formatting lost*
The Headbone Carving
Delenn was elated. Elated and excited and delighted and utterly terrified. After this she would never be the same, never be who she had been again in this physical life. She would be more and greater and better, and more difficult. Much more difficult she thought to herself.
Ohhh! No, be clear! She forced herself to not think. One should not be thinking of oneself at a time like this, if it were permissible to think at all. The headbone carving was done while in the quietest of meditations and with the respect of immense gratitude. From this day forward, Delenn would be an adult—and bear all the marks to prove it—among her people and until the day she passed beyond the veil. This was the Minbari headbone carving ceremony, the ritual shaping of the bone to affirm one's transition from child to adult under philosophy, law, and the common man.
On few things did three casts agree but one was this: at this age, by the philosophy of the religious class, a young male or female Minbari was intellectually prepared for adulthood; as much as the Warrior caste held by tradition of law that this age had been the age of adulthood since the earliest times of the Minbari people; and among the worker cast the festival was still carried out in the traditional way, over the course of an entire year with only hand-carved stone tools. Delenn's ceremony would be more modern, as befit the rank of her carver, and honored her place in the caste--none the less she would like to see the festival and the dance, to hear the music of the Worker caste's traditional ceremony—hers was a quiet and civilized, beautiful one.
The head carving could be done by one of three people, at the youth's choice: either parent, (considered a single person in law and faith), a teacher from any of your schools, or a leading member of your caste. Delenn was blessed to have all three: her mother. After her father passed beyond the veil, her mother had become head of their great household, as she would also soon join the sisterhood her position was honored and high among her people, and near the top of her caste. She was as much a respected person of influence as she was a teacher of religious philosophy—a sage of tolerance and justice and wisdom. And she was shaping her child's future.
Every Minbari is born with a unique headbone. There are certain features shared by caste members, proof of their long separation from each other
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