Mad Max Fury Road fan fic: Home (Furiosa/Max)
Title: Home (ao3)
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Pairing: Furiosa/Max
Blurb: Post-movie fluff. Max left. He comes back and then he goes again … but he always comes back.
Word count: 3,242
Notes: I read a response to a question over at Quora about why Max chose to leave at the end. The question was phrased a little badly and asked why he ‘abandoned’ Furiosa - implying that she needed him to stay, which is not true. But as to why Max left, I felt that the poster Matthew Reed Bailey gave a very good answer:
Because THAT is the freaking point of Mad Max. If you watched the FIRST Mad Max, then you would know that he abandoned his humanity, to become a monster, to fight monsters. Civilization is better off without him, and he knows it.
At the end of EVERY Mad Max movie, he is worse off than he was at the beginning. This is because he is the embodiment of everything destructive about the world, but he still carries with him a small seed of salvation that allows him to know right from wrong (and that his impulse is to do wrong, even when he does so to save the right from the wrong people).
People tend to not understand this about Mad Max, yet the creator of the franchise has spelled this out even more graphically than I have here.
I love a happy ending, though and I wanted to write a fluffy happy ending … so keeping all of the above in mind (the fact that Max always has to leave), I thought I’d just cheat and have him always leave but always return.
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I wrote this fic a while back but only just yesterday got around to doing the header for it, so am reposting it :)