Fic: The Quality of Mercy

[ravenclaw42]

Title: The Quality of Mercy
Fandom: Kingdom of Heaven
Rating: PGish
Warnings: Canon character death, lack of historical accuracy. >_>
Summary: Saladin only met Baldwin IV a few times, but they were enough to make an impression that lasted forever.
Notes: Liek omg it is amazing how much this is based on the very, very fictionalized movie characters

Comments

[bagelmuffin_luv]

I enjoyed this so much, even if Baldwin stories always make me so damn sad. But thanks for writing something so beautiful, keep us posted on your future works!

[bagelmuffin_luv]

Hm, do you think you can rec me some Baldwin fics that you've enjoyed? If it's not too much trouble! :)

[yma2]

What she said;
I'd like to read some of this stuff too.

[ravenclaw42]

Okey dokey, check the reply to bagelmuffin_luv above... I've got a few real links and some vague directions, but hopefully it's at least marginally useful. I haven't hit a really bad KoH fic yet -- but it's the kind of fandom that doesn't tend to attract people who aren't really willing to think about it, so that's a good sign for the quality of its fic. ^_^

If you can take some serious slash smut, the_lepic really is an entertaining read. A bit more feminizing of Baldwin than I can agree with, but... oh well. It's all such silliness, anyway, but mixed with just enough gravity to make its length worthwhile.

[ravenclaw42]

To be honest I link-hopped so much in finding stories that I'm not sure where half of them were. *meep* But I know I started from king-baldwin and koh_slash_fic in nearly every case, and the latter has very well-organized memories with stories sorted by pairing. Most of what I found is slash, and actually the majority of what I read was probably the_lepic, a massive, excessively porny Baldwin/Balian epic. It's an incredibly fun read and quite sweet, despite its porny-ness. XD

Um, oh! There were a couple others I can actually link. Someone claimed Baldwin at the fanfic100 challenge, and they've got five stories done already (linked from the table of prompts there). They're short, but very good. And I haven't dared to start sifting through much of the crap over at fanfiction.net, but I skimmed the first page and found this, which I thought was lovely. I have a soft spot for the "unmasking" plot device, as you can probably tell.

Hope that was at least marginally helpful. ^_^

[bagelmuffin_luv]

Thank you! This is great help. :) And do write something wonderful like this again. ;) (hopefully soon, hehe I'm so selfish)

[ravenclaw42]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

even if Baldwin stories always make me so damn sad.

I know, it's just about impossible to find Baldwin fic that isn't depressing, isn't it? Canon character death pretty much sucks. :/

I'm kinda toying with the idea of another KoH story, but I don't really know what, and I have so many other writing projects I ought to be working on... but with all the joys of spontaneity (aka fandom!ADD), you know, there could very well be more. ^_^.