Did whatever it's from influence Viyony as a character, or just her casting?
Not at all. It was Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006) and I only just picked it up two weeks ago (although amusingly, I suppose she is also the eldest sister trying to salvage the family business in it).
Viyony came about from her turn in Death in Paradise. I knew I needed to do some slightly earlier-set Portcallan stories or otherwise I'd never be able to bring in earlier time periods in any of the others, and while it wasn't anything to do with her character in that as such, although a little of the situation, I saw her in that and Viyony sprang up almost instantly. Now I'm just doing retrospective research to prove me right and get some good reference stuff. She did amusingly pop up for a minute or two, or less, in Possession during my Jeremy Northam explorations last summer, so UK TV & films remains fully incestuous as ever, although they were not in the same time period in that! :-)
(I am still going through Terra Nova, but very slowly, as with everything these days, it seems, and that was 10 years later than Nina, same as DiP, and my vague memories of her from Mistresses were not very Viyony-like at all.)
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Not at all. It was Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006) and I only just picked it up two weeks ago (although amusingly, I suppose she is also the eldest sister trying to salvage the family business in it).
Viyony came about from her turn in Death in Paradise. I knew I needed to do some slightly earlier-set Portcallan stories or otherwise I'd never be able to bring in earlier time periods in any of the others, and while it wasn't anything to do with her character in that as such, although a little of the situation, I saw her in that and Viyony sprang up almost instantly. Now I'm just doing retrospective research to prove me right and get some good reference stuff. She did amusingly pop up for a minute or two, or less, in Possession during my Jeremy Northam explorations last summer, so UK TV & films remains fully incestuous as ever, although they were not in the same time period in that! :-)
(I am still going through Terra Nova, but very slowly, as with everything these days, it seems, and that was 10 years later than Nina, same as DiP, and my vague memories of her from Mistresses were not very Viyony-like at all.)