Finding Colours in the Dark, by grav_ity

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Title: Finding Colours in the Dark
remix author: grav_ity
Summary: There are times when you can pretend that it’s all fine and nothing ever happened.
Characters: Jeanne, Paulla, Gina, Gaius
Pairings: none
Rating: Teen
Warnings: mentions rape and torture, all canonical
Title, Author and URL of original story: Why Colors Disappear, by lyssie, Read more... )

Comments

[sunshine_queen]

I love seeing Gina through someone other that Gaius's eyes, (and that the source of her heartbreak is visible even to people who have no idea!!! my heart, my heart) and I really enjoyed getting a better glimpse into Jeanne's psyche. Great job!

[trovia]

I wonder why the awesome women fic only ever gets written for remix.

I liked this a lot.

[rose_griffes]

Have some awesome women.

[trovia]

Oh, thank you!

[rose_griffes]

The person who broke her loved her first. If you let yourself, you’d remember what that’s like.
I love how you took those hints about Jeanne from the original story and placed them here... though it's painful to read.

You stopped waiting for death a long time ago. When the worlds ended, you finally realized that God wanted you alive, even though you wanted it to end. You hate it, and you might even hate Him, but you’ll keep going anyway. And you’ll do your best to keep everyone else going too.

That's how it must have felt for a lot of these women who lived after the cylon attacks. *shivers*

You were setting up the house on New Caprica, the one where you and Paulla will live with the women who choose to “be of service”, as the deed from Gaius Baltar’s Presidential desk reads. As if you ran a boarding house.

That's just... creepy, and entirely too plausible.

All of this was so well-done. The original gave me chills; so did this.

[lyssie]

Oh, oh, man. THIS. Yes.

(that is so not coherent)

I really love this, the way it twists and turns around the original, and--

You hate her a little bit for that, but the planet below calls to you,

This, as well, yes. Because these women are complicated and simple and everything in-between, and it's not just power, it's belief and God and destiny.

*happysigh*

[fallingtowers]

Oh my. That's eerie and heart-breaking and lyrical and haunting and all around awesome.