Burn Notice meta: Analyzing the "Reckoning"

[merryghoul]

But first: I was going to republish a meta I did that I wrote out of spite. I really wanted to write a Michael/Fiona ship manifesto for Het Reccers, but at the time, I couldn’t claim them because someone else had claimed them at the comm (the policy was first come, first serve with couples, and I had the misfortune of being out the day signups started, missing out on them by mere hours). I received anonymous advice to write the manifesto anyway, and so I did. I originally published this manifesto for HC Bingo. Looking at it now, I feel part of it was boring because it extensively recapped Michael and Fiona’s relationship, and part of it was cringeworthy because I feel the manifesto attacked shippers “not doing it right” for dumb reasons. tl;dr I felt that manifesto was not worth saving or updating, and I decided to delete the manifesto. (It’s not the one I would write for Het Reccers.)

That said, I wrote the following as a follow-up to that manifesto. It’s about one episode of Burn Notice and a ship analysis.

Analyzing the "Reckoning" (1931 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen
Characters: Fiona Glenanne, Michael Westen
Additional Tags: Meta, Canon-Typical Violence, Ship Manifesto, Nonfiction, Season/Series 07
Summary: An essay on the final episode of Burn Notice, "Reckoning," and some of the events leading up to that episode.

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