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Triptych by Mad Maudlin (Dopplegangers Challenge)

Jun 04, 2007 23:51

Title: Triptych
Author: Mad Maudlin
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 4,800
Characters: John, Rodney, various
Spoilers: End of Season 1 through "The Intruder" (SGA) and "Moebius" (SG-1). Actually, "Moebius" is kind of important.
Summary: "They actually created this universe the moment they activated the time-travel device, and so their actions in the past ( Read more... )

author: mad_maudlin, challenge: doppelganger

Comments 115

saphanibaal June 5 2007, 05:18:20 UTC

Oh. Holy. Fsck.

In case you hadn't realized, this is really, really good, and I like the way that it works on so many levels.

(Although I do think recurrence might pull some of the variations back together, fusing realities that are similar enough; any disjuncts would be put down to faulty memories/records).

And I really like both the "allergic to peanuts" and that the paper in question was written by Brendan Gaul.

mad_maudlin June 5 2007, 06:08:53 UTC

Thank you! I've been playing around with this idea almost since I saw "Moebius" and I'm glad the execution works.

I don't think the SG writers are very consistant with how they treat alternate timelines from episode to episode; their ideas of what qualifies as a "close" reality versus as "distant" one are pretty sketchy. Given that all the canon ARs we've encountered have multiple distinct features compared to baseline, I agree that realities which are closely parallel would "fuse" back to mean; I don't think that would happen with the zero and two timelines from "Moebius," though, because of the obviously disruptive consequences of losing both Atlantis and SG-1.

I think miss_porcupine wrote a fic in which Rodney works to get some of Gaul's research posthumously published, and that story really resonated with me. I always wondered how close to home Gaul's accusations of professional jealously were, and I don't think it's a coincidence that after that episode and "Hot Zone" back-to-back, we see Rodney hanging out with Heightmeyer.

copracat June 5 2007, 06:15:28 UTC

What a great story.

mad_maudlin June 5 2007, 17:59:08 UTC

Thank you!

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mad_maudlin June 5 2007, 18:01:15 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad they worked together.

_swallow June 5 2007, 08:46:10 UTC

This is awesome!

mad_maudlin June 5 2007, 18:01:33 UTC

Thank you!

zaganthi June 5 2007, 09:48:55 UTC

I think I love you. That was awesome.

mad_maudlin June 5 2007, 18:01:45 UTC

Aww, thank. :-)