Fic: Blue Bottles

[alex_caligari]

Title: Blue Bottles
Author: alex_caligari
Beta: jellybean728
Characters/Pairings: Rose/Nine
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Puppets firmly attached to strings of BBC.
Summary: When a person can always change their face, how well can you ever know them?
Author's Notes: AU inspired by the photos below. Heavy fluff.

Comments

[alizarin_skies]

OMG, this is BRILLIANT!!!
Love the whole circuse imagery, and how you make the parallel of Rose, trapped and waiting for someone to run with, and of course, the Bad Wolf reference, just everything about this :D

[alex_caligari]

Thanks! I loved taking 'Rose' out of the shop and putting her somewhere seemingly glamorous, but still being lonely.

[emraldeyedauter]

I quite forgot to breathe during this. Its an amazing piece of alternate universe, magical and daring and something so different from what has come before.

Well done.

[alex_caligari]

Please breathe!

magical and daring and something so different from what has come before.

That is so gratifying, thank you so much!

[anon_aspasia]

There are so many haunting, true lines and images here. Also, for something so different, the sense it gives of the characters we know and love is amazingly accurate; it's them, but seen through a new lens. (Or funhouse mirror, perhaps?) Beautiful work.

[alex_caligari]

it's them, but seen through a new lens.

They're such strong characters that, when pared down to the core, it hardly matters what you clothe them in, police box or circus tent. Thanks for reading!

[kaffy_r]

This is tremendously fine work. The conversations are real, and that's no small feat, because in the hands of some writers, they could have been both precious and pretentious. You make them completely natural and powerful. You also make the changes in mood absolutely organic to the story - again, that's beyond a hell of a lot of writers.

Marvelous, marvelous, work. Thanks for writing it!

[alex_caligari]

(icon is reflective of me trying to respond to this amazing review)

that's beyond a hell of a lot of writers.

As a writer who still considers herself to be a 'noob' (if I may), this is so wonderful to hear, and I can't even respond to it in an intelligent manner. Thank you so much for the praise!

[quean_of_swords]

Absolutely brilliant!

[alex_caligari]

Thanks!