Title: Battaglia Con Brio
Author:
metacheese; art by
yjudaes in the first part
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 36,000 for the whole thing
Pairings or Characters: Arthur/Eames is endgame, but there's brief Arthur/Robert, Eames/Robert, and also Ariadne/Yusuf
Kinks: voyeurism, explicit sex
Warnings: prostitution, physical trauma, angst (eventual happy ending)
Summary: Rival composers in love. Secrets, lies, misunderstandings, ferrets, swords, and ghosts. Arthur is quite terrible at sabotage. A riff on the Milos Forman film/Peter Shaffer play Amadeus, but much of the time the plot diverges quite wildly.
Author's Note: Written for ae_match. Beta'ed by the amazing
eternalsojourn, who also suggested the title. The title is Italian: battaglia is a musical term for a piece meant to evoke a battle; con brio means "with spirit".
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