we were once cinema gods in the night by gyzym (NC-17)
Title: we were once cinema gods in the night
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Eames/Arthur
Categories: AU
Length: Long (21,304)
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: gyzym
Author Website: AO3 | Tumblr
Author's Summary:
That's the thing about Hollywood--everyone has a Hollywood story.
Review:
Looove this. There is little I like more than a well written AU, and this is definitely that. Arthur is a producer because of course he can get chaos to be somewhat orderly and Dom is this crazy director with a black mark the size of everest and Eames is this magnificent actor. It fits. It all fits and it's seamless, the placing of characters from Inception into this Hollywood story that the author has created. Granted, I have no idea how anything works in Hollywood, and the author is upfront with that as well, so probably inaccuracies abound, but who cares. It's believable enough for me, haha.
Events in the fic mirrors Inception universe rather well. Mal's still dead and Dom still has a black mark on him, while Arthur is still stubbornly loyal. You place Eames in the role of an actor because, you know, forger, and you still have Saito as their financier. It's amazing how well everything is mirrored in this AU, down to Yusuf being some sort of genius with cameras and Ariadne being rather new, but Dom's assistant director.
It flows smoothly from one scene to the next, with each character being so them that half the time you want to shake them and the other half of the time you just want them to make out already. Eames and Arthur's relationship is this give and take sort of thing with both of them being stubborn and kind of stupid in their own way. You can see the way they both care for each other and when they finally get together--well. Finally. But in the best of ways, heh.
This fic also gives you some truly delightful original characters in the form of Arthur and Eames's assistants, who are scarily competent and just really fun to read. All in all, this is a great AU with movie making and actors, but mostly Arthur and Eames just trying to figure out where they're going and how they're going to get there with a lot of misunderstandings, but the eventual happy ending as well.
we were once cinema gods in the night
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Eames/Arthur
Categories: AU
Length: Long (21,304)
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: gyzym
Author Website: AO3 | Tumblr
Author's Summary:
That's the thing about Hollywood--everyone has a Hollywood story.
Review:
Looove this. There is little I like more than a well written AU, and this is definitely that. Arthur is a producer because of course he can get chaos to be somewhat orderly and Dom is this crazy director with a black mark the size of everest and Eames is this magnificent actor. It fits. It all fits and it's seamless, the placing of characters from Inception into this Hollywood story that the author has created. Granted, I have no idea how anything works in Hollywood, and the author is upfront with that as well, so probably inaccuracies abound, but who cares. It's believable enough for me, haha.
Events in the fic mirrors Inception universe rather well. Mal's still dead and Dom still has a black mark on him, while Arthur is still stubbornly loyal. You place Eames in the role of an actor because, you know, forger, and you still have Saito as their financier. It's amazing how well everything is mirrored in this AU, down to Yusuf being some sort of genius with cameras and Ariadne being rather new, but Dom's assistant director.
It flows smoothly from one scene to the next, with each character being so them that half the time you want to shake them and the other half of the time you just want them to make out already. Eames and Arthur's relationship is this give and take sort of thing with both of them being stubborn and kind of stupid in their own way. You can see the way they both care for each other and when they finally get together--well. Finally. But in the best of ways, heh.
This fic also gives you some truly delightful original characters in the form of Arthur and Eames's assistants, who are scarily competent and just really fun to read. All in all, this is a great AU with movie making and actors, but mostly Arthur and Eames just trying to figure out where they're going and how they're going to get there with a lot of misunderstandings, but the eventual happy ending as well.
we were once cinema gods in the night