OOC: Some Millicanon stuff

[everyinchbutone]

~Valerie starts The Salt Flats in 2015, and meets Ruth. She and Ruth are together for three years -- 2018. Assuming that the flashbacks associated with Surridge's diary are accurate, Valerie arrives at Larkhill on May 23rd, and dies around August 18th.

~V blows up Larkhill on November 5th, apparently of the same year.

~It takes V "a little over ten years" to set up the train that runs under Parliament. The events of the movie therefore happen no sooner than 2029.

~Executive decision by V and Valerie-muns: They're Violet Carsons, as in the original novel, not Scarlet. Image, for reference -- they have the same tight petals as the roses in the movie, but they're pinker. Someone or other may have bred a red version by the 2010's, though.

~The St. Mary's virus was probably developed from Valerie's blood. The cure was developed from V's.

~A partial filmography of Valerie's works (from V for Vendetta: From Script to Film)
--The Salt Flats ("Award Nomination Best Film") ("It's About Letting Go...")
--The Separatist
--The Tides
--The Viscount's Wife
--Red Murder
--The Taste of Saffron

Comments

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

...I thought it was nearly 10 years, not a little over? It may just be that I'm using a different version.

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

Gah, don't post yet.

I think we could even use changes in the environment to justify a redder Violet Carson.

[adiva_calandia]

Oops. I think you're right. I'll fix it tonight. But nearly ten years + recuperation/planning time = a little over ten years = 2029, right?

I had a thought last night that we might be able to figure out the movie's date from Evey's story -- if her brother died at St. Mary's, that was probably soon after 2018, and if we know how old Evey was then and how old she is during the movie -- but I don't have any reference materials with me atm.