Two recs
Mad Max: Fury Road:
...is rapidly gaining fanfiction, and a considerable part of it imagines the backstories of the "wives". I was impressed by this version:
Hope In A Handful Of Dust (3515 words) by FayJay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mention of Toast/OFC. This isn't a shippy fic, but reference is made to past relationships & future ones
Characters: Toast the Knowing, The Splendid Angharad, Capable, Cheedo the Fragile, The Dag, Furiosa
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Prequel, Backstory
Summary:
When the Traders come in sight of the Citadel, Toast feels hope for the first time since she heard the screams begin, and it feels like claws in her chest. Even across the miles of yellow sand, with the heat-haze shivering the horizon, she can see the shocking smear of green atop the rocks. Life.
“Do you see what I see?” breathes The Dag, pressing her face closer to the tinted window. Her voice is hoarse, and her too-pale skin has scorched an ugly red where she has sat too close to the glass. They are none of them ready for this topside life, not in any respect; nothing in the teachings of Squirrel or Miriam or The Magdalen prepared them for this.
“Mirage,” says Toast, crushing the seeds of hope in her heart. “It isn’t real.”
“Water,” says Cheedo, following their gaze. Bruising mottles her face with vivid purple and green. She hasn’t spoken in three days.
“It’s nothing,” Toast snarls, because it is better to be numb than to feel hope here at the end of the world.
Angharad frowns at her, and cards long fingers through Cheedo’s dusty hair.
“It’s water,” she says.
(Toast-centric backstory for the wives.)
Being Human:
For all the early Spike & Dru indebted-ness, Daisy and Ivan were very much their own characters, and I was sorry we never saw Daisy again post season 2, so I was thrilled by this great "missing scene" set in very early s3:
The Lilies of the Field (1744 words) by goldfinch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human (UK)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri/John Mitchell, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri/Ivan (Being Human UK), the vaguest most unsatisfactory John Mitchell/Annie Sawyer
Characters: Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri, John Mitchell, Anthony Michael McNair, Nina Pickering
Summary:
She goes to Barry, once, after Ivan. After everything.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1084945.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
...is rapidly gaining fanfiction, and a considerable part of it imagines the backstories of the "wives". I was impressed by this version:
Hope In A Handful Of Dust (3515 words) by FayJay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mad Max: Fury Road
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mention of Toast/OFC. This isn't a shippy fic, but reference is made to past relationships & future ones
Characters: Toast the Knowing, The Splendid Angharad, Capable, Cheedo the Fragile, The Dag, Furiosa
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Prequel, Backstory
Summary:
When the Traders come in sight of the Citadel, Toast feels hope for the first time since she heard the screams begin, and it feels like claws in her chest. Even across the miles of yellow sand, with the heat-haze shivering the horizon, she can see the shocking smear of green atop the rocks. Life.
“Do you see what I see?” breathes The Dag, pressing her face closer to the tinted window. Her voice is hoarse, and her too-pale skin has scorched an ugly red where she has sat too close to the glass. They are none of them ready for this topside life, not in any respect; nothing in the teachings of Squirrel or Miriam or The Magdalen prepared them for this.
“Mirage,” says Toast, crushing the seeds of hope in her heart. “It isn’t real.”
“Water,” says Cheedo, following their gaze. Bruising mottles her face with vivid purple and green. She hasn’t spoken in three days.
“It’s nothing,” Toast snarls, because it is better to be numb than to feel hope here at the end of the world.
Angharad frowns at her, and cards long fingers through Cheedo’s dusty hair.
“It’s water,” she says.
(Toast-centric backstory for the wives.)
Being Human:
For all the early Spike & Dru indebted-ness, Daisy and Ivan were very much their own characters, and I was sorry we never saw Daisy again post season 2, so I was thrilled by this great "missing scene" set in very early s3:
The Lilies of the Field (1744 words) by goldfinch
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human (UK)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri/John Mitchell, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri/Ivan (Being Human UK), the vaguest most unsatisfactory John Mitchell/Annie Sawyer
Characters: Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri, John Mitchell, Anthony Michael McNair, Nina Pickering
Summary:
She goes to Barry, once, after Ivan. After everything.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1084945.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.