Fic Rec: Gentry
Title: Gentry
Author: goldenusagi
Pairing: Sherlock, Mycroft. The author says "basically gen with a hint of potential Sherlock/John."
Length: 3,100 words
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock and Mycroft came from a warm home with loving parents, though you’d never suspect it from looking at them. There is a reason.
Reccer's comments: All year goldenusagi and entanglednow have been writing a pair of stories every month in which Sherlock is a magical creature of some kind -- they post their stories on the last day of the month, so we get complementary, often wildly divergent tales that explore the dazzlingly different tones and directions that can grow from the same basic prompt. Their whole series is delightful and it's been one of my favorite fanfiction events to look forward to throughout the year. I hope they will keep going into 2015! This is goldenusagi's entry for September, when they were writing about Fae!Sherlock.
"Gentry" is a starkly beautiful, melancholy exploration of the Holmes children as changelings (fairy children substituted for kidnapped human infants). It explores the sense of abandonment, of inexplicable otherness, that defined Mycroft and Sherlock but also cut them off from human means of comfort and connection. It looks at the cold but unbreakable bond between them, based on a sense of kinship and mutual isolation. And in the end it raises the hope that Sherlock may be able to find his place in the mortal world.
It's a lovely, sad fairy tale, that ultimately uncovers a glimmer of hope.
(If you like it, I'd encourage you to also follow the link to entanglednow's story and appreciate the very different Fae!Sherlock entry that author has crafted! These stories are most fun if you read them in pairs, as they were written and posted.)
Author: goldenusagi
Pairing: Sherlock, Mycroft. The author says "basically gen with a hint of potential Sherlock/John."
Length: 3,100 words
Rating: T
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock and Mycroft came from a warm home with loving parents, though you’d never suspect it from looking at them. There is a reason.
Reccer's comments: All year goldenusagi and entanglednow have been writing a pair of stories every month in which Sherlock is a magical creature of some kind -- they post their stories on the last day of the month, so we get complementary, often wildly divergent tales that explore the dazzlingly different tones and directions that can grow from the same basic prompt. Their whole series is delightful and it's been one of my favorite fanfiction events to look forward to throughout the year. I hope they will keep going into 2015! This is goldenusagi's entry for September, when they were writing about Fae!Sherlock.
"Gentry" is a starkly beautiful, melancholy exploration of the Holmes children as changelings (fairy children substituted for kidnapped human infants). It explores the sense of abandonment, of inexplicable otherness, that defined Mycroft and Sherlock but also cut them off from human means of comfort and connection. It looks at the cold but unbreakable bond between them, based on a sense of kinship and mutual isolation. And in the end it raises the hope that Sherlock may be able to find his place in the mortal world.
It's a lovely, sad fairy tale, that ultimately uncovers a glimmer of hope.
(If you like it, I'd encourage you to also follow the link to entanglednow's story and appreciate the very different Fae!Sherlock entry that author has crafted! These stories are most fun if you read them in pairs, as they were written and posted.)