Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum
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So, my very dear, beloved Sultana of Spring 🤗 🤗
You've left me feeling all bittersweet and full of saudade since yesterday night. 😳 Warm and blissful at the way this series ended, and somehow curiously hollow that it's finally ended. I won't have further updates in the Winter saga to eagerly look forward to, to keep reading between the lines and guessing the mysteries from the teeny hints and clues you keep secreting deftly in your dialogues!! 😉 Ah well, perhaps soon one day, you'll write the Summer series. Ansh's finding of his soulmate maybe? With Sanskaar & Swara guiding him? The little tornado certainly seems to be a dynamo! 😊
I loved the way the Finale started off, with the detour into a past of a decade ago. The bond of a very close friendship between Swara & Sanskaar, teetering on the brink of something more, was beautifully portrayed. Both Ragini and Kavita, canny, scheming girls both 🤢, understood very well what Sanskaar was feeling for Swara. That boundless adoration, that warm devotion. I am angrier than ever, at Kavita and Shomi for having separated the two of them for almost a decade! 😡
You captured Ragini very well here. The mask of bland innocence in place, but as you put it, an ugly and sly envy beginning to corrupt her heart and soul. She seems to have had an intense crush on Lakshya as a teen itself, and when he ultimately shrugged off his engagement in order to pursue Swara, it pushed her over the edge into vindictiveness, she was already teetering on the brink of.
Kavita--well, I disliked her in SQ 😊 and this scene just reinforced my distaste for the advice she gave Sanskaar then. Hypocrite! And then---you revealed that the original Kavita was just Vasundara's pawn. She had been brought in to worm her way into Sanskaar's affections, and thereby to strike at Durga Prasad. Sanskaar chose her as a means of escaping from the crown and the throne he so detested, but she landed up falling for him, didn't she. A poor excuse of love, but a sort of devotion, all the same. I wonder, had the real Kavita not passed, and had actually returned, what would have been her stand regarding SwaSan? Would she have found the courage to tap into the whatever reserves of goodness she had? Or would she just have been another Ragini? Tantalizing...😛
Vasundara really is a vile, conniving schemer. And the chutzpah of this lady, telling her son in an earlier chapter that she hates war, she always wants peace. Deluded to the core! She is responsible for the travails and hostilities now prevailing.
I liked the conversation between Sanskaar and Adya, first cousins, and future brothers in law (Sanskaar is always Uttara's elder brother by love, though not by blood). That line by Adya was wonderful--that he'd always fought battles as his mother's blind knight; now it was time he fought a battle for his father as well. Those Mahabharata references were lovely. 😊 How Adya realized he'd been a Dritarashtra to his mother's Shakuni; they were definitely not, and never had been akin to Chandragupta & Chanakya.
And the next section--My God. I just loved the determined, strong and feisty way Swara confronted Vasunara and Kavita. The way she said that Sanskaar was a part of her very heart and soul for all eternity, they would never, in reality, be parted. She would not grovel and beg for his life, since that would cheapen her love for him, and in any case, one doesn't beg for something that is so much a part of oneself. Valiant, courageous, wonderful words! 👏 👏 I just loved this flamingly brilliant Swara; who promised Kavita that if Sanskaar was harmed, she would unleash such a havoc and destruction on Kavita, that would destroy her entire being, her soul and existence! Amazing.
Loved the little bit about Ram & Yasho, the scene from the hospital after she gives birth to Sanskaar. She really does seem to have been a marvelous, extraordinary lady. And she had the gift of foresight, didn't she? I got goosebumps, reading that line about how she'd decided, were she to have had a daughter, she'd have named her Swara...So poignant, so beautiful. No wonder Ram had always felt, when he met Swara all those years ago when she was Sanskaar's best friend, that these two were meant to be.
And my dear, my dear Saku. 🤗 Finally, our mutual dislike, Lakshya heeded our desperate wishes for his semi-redemption, and decided not to plunge into a free fall of a bottomless crevice. 😊 Am so happy there is some honor, some intrinsic worth in him, though buried very deep! That touch was very good, Sanskaar leaving a message for him on a CD, explaining very clearly that Swara wasn't some sort of plaything he could demand from Sanskaar; and anyway, whatever step he took, Swara wasn't ever going to return to him, and would completely annihilate him for harming Sanskaar.
But what stood out for me, was the way Lakshya finally reacted when Sanskaar said he forgave him, for all his lowliest decisions, his envy, his covetousness, his worst mistakes. That must have stung and scarred so badly, to be forgiven in advance, by the brother he was going to sin so violently against. Thank God he had some measure of his soul left to salvage!
The next section, with the massive truth reveal! 😛 I'd of course guessed this long ago, but while it wasn't a surprise for me, the expose was deftly handled. I loved the little clues as to Kavi's real identity you had strewn earlier, Saku. Masterfully done! In particular, the "Kav"-Lak dialogue, and also bits of the "Kav"-Adya dialogue. 😉 Plus of course, the fact of Ragini disappearing so conveniently after coming to see Lakshya in the hospital months ago, and never being around when "Kavita" made her entry. Vasu meeting "Kavita" in the hospital was a deft hint by you too---Ragini was there after undergoing her plastic surgery to resemble Kavita! Plus she also let slip in rage to Swara, about how she'd always loved only the crown and the throne 😊 the venom filled diatribe of the SQ Ragini. 😊
What I loved in this section, was Swara's stance towards Ragini, similar to what Sanskaar had told Lakshya. Though Swara can completely destroy and devastate Ragini, she shows her utter disdain by forgiving her. Telling her that she doesn't want to waste her heart and soul by hating her. Ragini is simply not worth the price of her carrying that emotional burden around!
And then, in this emotional maelstrom, our hero comes striding in---and completely catches Vasundara napping! Oh, how I loved this! The woman who thought she was a master strategist, a Queen of the chessboard, now realizes that the King has outmaneuvered her! And his revelation that Lakshya had anyway saved Adya (rushing to the flaming car to save Sanskaar); and even if he had not, Sanskaar had Akash standing by, was awesome! This man thinks of everything, does he not? 👏 👏 And Vasundara has all the time in the world, of a long and dreary jail sentence, to contemplate and reflect. One would wish she would get a measure of wisdom out of this introspection, but I doubt it!
As for the Epilogue---Really liked the warm, wonderful, festive occasion you wove around the magical couple and their lovely son, Saku. Of course, with another lovely kiddo, presumably a daughter, on the way. I just loved the way Ansh is so protective of Swara, adoring her, literally worshiping her, every bit as much as his Dad does! And that little line about how Sujata is so very close to him, brought a small tear to my eye! She truly is Sanskaar's MOTHER in every sense of the term. How much love she lavished on him, and now she's getting to do that with her beloved grandson. So moving. And "Uttu Bua" telling Ansh that he has to compete with his formidable Dad, for the title of "best Big brother", and Ansh's and Swara's rejoinders to that, were so warm and funny, too. Felt extremely real and relatable. Exactly how these conversations go in real life. 👏
All in all, a wonderful end to a marvelous series, Saku. I am going to miss this like crazy. I am putting in my demand here, for some more chronicles set in spring and summer! I want to read more about Ansh Sanskaar Maheshwari! 😊
Loads & Loads of Love,
---Viji
My dear, Viji🤗🤗🤗
So here I write my 2500th post (I have a gift of plotting rather smartly😉) as the reply to one of the most amazing comments by none other than the legend, the dear soul sister, the one and only lovely Duchess of Dawn.
You know I cried after finishing this. The SQ finale had only made me tearful, this one took the cake, I cried, for almost fifteen minutes, earned a few concerned remarks from my sisters around and finally got a grip of myself. It's done, there would be no more plotting, planning, or updating. I feel so empty myself.
You and I both love to have solid backgrounds for our stories dear, like you did in the elements series, I wanted to explain why someone would behave in a certain way, why they did what they did. Ragini I believe comes first in that list, that is a life time of mistakes and misjudgments. Had to give her a reason for being this serpent like creature. Now you see why she is so. It was the feeling that all her dreams were being bestowed upon her sister that turned her in to the monster she was in later years.
Yes, Kavi is not a pure soul, although not a demon like Ragini, she has her darkness. This was the original plan I had for Kavi all along so I never really wondered what would happen if the real one returned. Still I guess Sanskar would not choose her, he was more clear of his intentions by then. He would have still offered her an escape and strangely I feel the real Kavi would have agreed. As for her being Vasu's pawn, well when I think of it I don't really see a heir to be, who was groomed from a young age to fit in to his plotting and scheming winter throne, would simply fall in love with a girl who can never make a worthy queen, even as an escape route, he wasn't programmed to like anything less than a queen, yet he fall...there's a big why? there which I think was Vasu, pulling the strings, making Sanskar believe he could leave the crown with Kavi while he was trapped with Swara. You're idea might differ but I feel this to be practical.
The part Vasu never said to her son is that most of the time those who pretends to be envoys of peace are the spies of the enemy the real war creators, it fits her perfectly had she said that!
I wanted Adya to examine his past in the light of his recent knowledge, glad you found that interesting and yeah, Sanskar will be always Uttara's brother no matter what. Had to add the Mahabharata reference, this was the last time I get to do it.
I wanted to stick to Swara being the Queen so mighty of her own. She would be shattered from inside, but would never give that sanctification to the enemy by acknowledging it. That was the hardest part to write, the fine tuned emotions, this was the part at the end of which I started crying.
Ram and Yasho, is my favorite people in winter land after SwaSan. They have so much of power and potential. Yasho especially is one marvelous creation of my imagination I believe and I humbly feel proud of her. Yes, her foresight might have made Ram think of Swara and Sanskar as two destined people.
It took my utmost self control not to let Lakshya go no with that hideous act he was about to do. I felt so drained after redeeming him, as if I dragged him back all the way from darkness to light, such was my desire to let him rot there. But he had to be redeemed for the sake of the spring we need so dearly. Yes, the last blow there was being forgiven, an unearned forgiveness is the heaviest thing, I believe.
You were the only one who saw the clues I scattered around in the snow, as for where Ragini was all the time. I was afraid would I match your expectations in the final showdown. In fact I wanted to draw a parallel with Sanskar in the way Swara behaved with Ragini, that's the real ruling, making the enemy suffer yet using your minimum strength there. She is a true queen.
This is where Sanskar is comfortable, the role he was trained to carry out, the ruthless and powerful king. Of cause his plots are very solid and he does consider of all the miniature details. He would not play with a life like Vasu most certainly did countless times and would make sure Adi was safe.
I agree, I see no silver lines for Vasundara, she is a total lost case. But at least she would be away from the spring.
My sister's first born is what inspired me to write Ansh, when she was expecting her second child, he literally took it to his heart and pampered her like a doll. Here I guess Ansh is copying his father's way of treating his mom. He is one adorable child of cause.
I wanted Sujata to pamper Ansh presumably the way she adores her son, true, she is his mother no arguments!
Thank you so much Viji, duchess of dawn. This comment means the world to me, as you're one of my closest friends and also, my favorite writer. To hear you say all this about my work just makes me want to fly, I know that's not possible but the feeling is that powerful. Thanks again!
loads and loads of love,
Saku
ps; Ansh Sanskar Maheshwari is a name that makes me go weak in knees😳, I will try to write some more about him. 😊 As I already told you over our Scrap conversation, there would be some Spells of Spring unleashed soon😊
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