Ben of the Tundra (the If Beowulf Were Raised by Wolves Remix) [due South, PG, Fraser/Kowalski]

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Title: Ben of the Tundra (The If Beowulf Were Raised by Wolves Remix)
Author: kinetikatrue
Summary: On the snow-snug tundra, the wolves still tell the tale of Tundra-Ben.
Rating: PG
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, Mackenzie/Vecchio
Fandom: due South
Original story: Ben of the Tundra by elementalv
Notes: Thanks to Farley Mowat for writing about wolves and the wilds of Canada

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[kinetikatrue]

I AM SO GLAD YOU THINK SO (HI, LOOK AT ME ABUSE CAPS RIGHT BACK ATCHA)!

So, anyway, I chose this one to work with precisely because of its cracky AU premise, because I have a great fondness for cracky AU premises and working out how to make them work is one of my absolute favorite writing-related things to do. Like, I am the writer/reader over there asking, f'rinstance, 'what did he do when he needed new clothes?' and 'how does the whole wolves pulling the sled thing actually work out?' and suchlike. Which is not to say that I think you needed to answer those questions in the original (I mean, you could have, but it wasn't necessary), just that they're the kind of things I tend to think about and that they totally influenced where I went with this in the end.

What's funny, though, is that I wasn't originally planning to go literary on this. I had vague thoughts of doing something else in the realm of story-within-a-story, but on the more fictional end of things . . . like, the Ben of the Tundra thing was an issue of a comic book or somebody's fantasy-life, y'know? But then I realized that it would be far more interesting to keep the epic scale of things but make it intimate in an entirely different way and here we are. *g*