Fic: Another City, by Corinna [Angel]

[corinna_5]

Another City
by corinna_5
PG for violence and flirtation
5,700 words

Summary: "I prefer to work alone."

Thanks to liviapenn for multiple inspirational suggestions and setting up the Atlantis Amalgamated challenge in the first place, rivkat for astonishingly fast and helpful beta-reading, and gchick for aid, assistance, and fight choreography.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

I really like the approach you took to this. I admit I've been a little skeptical of the whole fusion idea, but this felt very natural. I fully expected Angel's team to just be transplanted wholesale into Atlantis, but this quietly builds their backgrounds and stays true to SGA while also finding the core parts of the Angel characters, making them recognizable yet not out of place. I think it's a good compromise. Thanks for sharing!

[corinna_5]

I'm glad you like it! I agree that if it's just a Mountie and a Chicago cop and a wolf on Atlantis, that doesn't work as well for me, though now writing that out I desperately want Dief to have the ATA gene somehow. But I digress. Still, there's a reason these characters resonate for us, and one reason is that they are, to one extent or another, archetypal, and it's fun to play with those archetypes and try to make them work in new contexts.

Dief would HATE Atlantis. Not enough junk food. But a Canadian soldier who'd found a wolf-like creature on his second away mission, hmmmm.

Speaking of Canadians, I feel bad for Torri Higginson every time she says something with really Canadian vowel sounds, because she has to play a USAnian! That seems unfair. I rationalize it by saying that Weir grew up in Buffalo, or Michigan's U.P., both places that are secretly Canadian.

[runpunkrun]

Secret Canadians! Alternately, Rodney often doesn't sound Canadian ENOUGH.

Dief with the ATA gene would be fantastic. He'd get into all the food and create a lair for himself in one of the abandoned labs. He'd be so impossible. Fraser would completely give up on trying to encourage discipline in him. I wonder how Dief would get along with Sheppard. Sheppard seems like a dog person.

The idea of a Canadian soldier finding a wolf-like creature is so yummy. They'd bond! Save each other's lives! When they returned to Atlantis, Rodney would squeal in fear at the sight of the wolf-like creature, insist he was allergic and THEN find a new archenemy when it turns out the wolf likes junk food just as much as Rodney does. See, I'm bad at this game because SGA is still new to me and I want to play with all my SGA people rather than with the new fusion people.

[corinna_5]

I'm sorry, I can't answer this post, because I am completely distracted by what Joe Flanigan is doing with his neck there.

[runpunkrun]

COMPLETELY understandable. I think even Rodney's forgotten what he was saying.

[corinna_5]

Luckily for him, he can just look up and be reminded.