Instant Rec: East of the Sun, West of the Moon, by dossier [SGA]
I am utterly and completely biased, of course. I've been beta-ing this one for a while now. I have been beta-ing with absolute glee. I have been biting my tongue and taping my fingers together so I couldn't type my joy over this story before it was posted, but now I can!
dossier has begun posting East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
She's posting in chapters, so maybe be you'll want to wait until it is all up, but in that case, bookmark this. The story is finished, I have read it all and can say it's the best thing since chocolate.
There is plot. There is a deep and abiding friendship between John and Rodney that is more than yet completely canon compliant. There is an alien world that is alien and believable and beautiful. OCs who are as engaging and complex as canon characters.
It's a 'what if' AU branching from the Second Season episode Intruder, beginning with the Daedalus crashing on a planet instead of escaping the Wraith AI virus and reaching Atlantis. From there, mistakes, disasters, adventure, pain, and epiphanies follow. The characters show all the greatness humans can achieve and all the shallow faults. Duty, honor, loyalty, friendship: what do they mean to John Sheppard? Where do they ultimately lie? With the military? The SGC, the IOA, with Earth and its people, with Atlantis, Pegasus, or the people of the world where he finds himself forced to make a new life?
This is truly a John Sheppard story, but never stoops to making him an over emotional woobie, and I honestly do not rave about fics very often, but I can't recommend this story enough. And I just don't dare say anything about Rodney's plot line, except that I love him in this, love the life he lives, the choices he makes, and how he is so very much always Rodney McKay.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
dossier has begun posting East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
She's posting in chapters, so maybe be you'll want to wait until it is all up, but in that case, bookmark this. The story is finished, I have read it all and can say it's the best thing since chocolate.
There is plot. There is a deep and abiding friendship between John and Rodney that is more than yet completely canon compliant. There is an alien world that is alien and believable and beautiful. OCs who are as engaging and complex as canon characters.
It's a 'what if' AU branching from the Second Season episode Intruder, beginning with the Daedalus crashing on a planet instead of escaping the Wraith AI virus and reaching Atlantis. From there, mistakes, disasters, adventure, pain, and epiphanies follow. The characters show all the greatness humans can achieve and all the shallow faults. Duty, honor, loyalty, friendship: what do they mean to John Sheppard? Where do they ultimately lie? With the military? The SGC, the IOA, with Earth and its people, with Atlantis, Pegasus, or the people of the world where he finds himself forced to make a new life?
This is truly a John Sheppard story, but never stoops to making him an over emotional woobie, and I honestly do not rave about fics very often, but I can't recommend this story enough. And I just don't dare say anything about Rodney's plot line, except that I love him in this, love the life he lives, the choices he makes, and how he is so very much always Rodney McKay.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon