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Rebels and Amagons (G)

Jan 02, 2008 09:42

Title: Rebels and Amagons
Author: Vilakins
Rating : Gen
Fandom/claim: Blake's 7 in the style of Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (a classic 1930s British children's novel) though none of the B7 characters are children
Pairings: None
Summary: After the shootout on Gauda Prime, Vila, Avon, Dayna, and Tarrant end up on the shores of a lake...
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reapermum January 2 2008, 14:22:30 UTC

A latecomer to the party, but BRILLIANT.

Tarrant was so Titty, he wouldn't quite work as Dot. If you did one of the later books Avon would be Dick, but he worked well as John "I am the eldest.".

And nobody had to be Susan, I always felt Susan was the wet blanket of the family.

And I did spot the trunks.

vilakins January 2 2008, 19:42:42 UTC

:-D Thank you!

Yes, Avon would be a wonderful Dick! Dayna did take the Susan spot, but I left her very Dayna (and partially John as she was the one who could sail) because I find Susan so boring and too stereotypically female. However that's just Susan; Ransome writes role-playing Titty, the ruthless Nancy, author Dot, and even understanding Mrs Walker so very well as not at all the usual sort of 1930s fictional females.

reapermum January 2 2008, 20:34:13 UTC

Dayna would make a good Daisy, but that's further on in canon. And would mean you couldn't have Dick as well.

vilakins January 2 2008, 22:34:56 UTC

I just decided to stick with the first book--which cut Dick out--though Greg wants 'We Didn't Mean To Go To Gauda Prime'. :-P I refuse. No rescuing kittens from asteroids during a meteor storm. ;-)

doushkasmum January 3 2008, 10:26:04 UTC

I followed a link from sj kasabe, I don't know B7 much (I saw 1/2 an episode once) but I love Ransome and I thought this was great. I got the trunks too. If you write We Didn't Mean To Go To Gauda Prime, I promise to read it!

vilakins January 3 2008, 21:24:47 UTC

Thanks! :-D

I'm not writing it though. I can't make it fit unless it's an AU because it would have to happen before this one (they're on Gauda Prime now), and Blake would have to be the father figure they meet there. I'd have to make it another planet and that wouldn't be as blackly funny.

I could write 'We didn't mean to go to war' and make it the Andromedan one. It can join the other unwritten (non-Ransome) ideas I have.

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