I really enjoy all of what you have to say here, but your description of Delenn (at this moment, but really throughout) is just so spot on. Delenn's attitude to prophecies at this point: I'll make them come true, starring me. I don't mean that she's a narcissist, don't get me wrong. I mean that she has this self understanding that she can serve her people and the galaxy at large best this way, and so she has to do it, and it doesn't even occur to her that she could be wrong. No wonder this part of her drives Neroon crazy.


I would love the AU, or alternate perspective, on what people who don't follow Delenn really think. We get Neroon's view at various points, and I am always struck that he's *right,* or at least that his conclusions are logical, especially from the outside. Delenn really wakes up at some point before we meet her and decides that she will fulfill the prophecy, and has absolutely no conception that anyone might disagree. It's fascinating willful (and useful) blindness.