Spinoff Story 2013: The Yukon Complex
Title: The Yukon Complex
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG
Content Flags: broken families, the f-word (once)
Fandom: The L.A. Complex Spinoff
Type: Gen
Characters: Dean, Beth and Simon Pirelli; original characters
Word Count: around 7.8k
Summary: Dean Pirelli moves to the Yukon after tracking down his children in LA. The journey back to being a family is much longer than the many miles between the two places.
“You can’t change what happened. The past is the past. That time is gone, you can’t control it. But you still have all the rest of time ahead of you! All of it is your gift - a gift that you can do with as you see fit. You can squander it - or you can start over. And you can do that every second of every day. Every moment of your life is an opportunity for a new beginning.”
Disclaimer: I don't own The L.A. Complex. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Dean... Dean I'd know what to do with. ;-)
Thanks for reading! Feedback = Love. ;-) Please leave comments here at my LJ or at AO3 if it's not too much trouble.
Author's Notes: Written for the 2013 Spinoff Story Big!Bang. I would have never discovered The L.A. Complex if it hadn't been for Louis Ferreira's guest role portraying Dean Pirelli. The character fascinated me and filled me with both pity and loathing, a classic reaction to the tragic (anti) hero. I wanted to know what happened to Dean Pirelli and his children after the season (and, sadly, the entire series) ended.
The story is written in episodic narrative, in the style of a TV series pitch with broad sweeping summaries interspersed with scene dialogue, since the challenge was to develop a new spinoff series to an existing TV show.
My thanks go to Martin Gero for creating such compelling characters and to the actors for making them come alive. Special thanks to Louis Ferreira whose portrayal of Dean Pirelli made the character so heartbreakingly human with all his flaws. The character of Lou Kwanlin is modeled after one of my favorite First Nations actors, Graham Greene (who is in fact Iroquois, not Southern Tutchone). His quiet demeanor, his smiles, gestures and gentle voice helped create this character in my mind who is very much based on The Helper in Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces". Thanks to my patient beta readers and to tiggerrocks1 for the support. And finally, thanks to nickygabriel for organizing this unusual Big!Bang.
"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the fullest."
- Marcel Proust
This story was published at AO3 because its size exceeds LiveJournal post capacities.
The Yukon Complex Story Link
Original artwork for The Yukon Complex
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Artwork by shena8 and nickygabriel
(click on the thumbnails for a link to large versions)
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Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG
Content Flags: broken families, the f-word (once)
Fandom: The L.A. Complex Spinoff
Type: Gen
Characters: Dean, Beth and Simon Pirelli; original characters
Word Count: around 7.8k
Summary: Dean Pirelli moves to the Yukon after tracking down his children in LA. The journey back to being a family is much longer than the many miles between the two places.
“You can’t change what happened. The past is the past. That time is gone, you can’t control it. But you still have all the rest of time ahead of you! All of it is your gift - a gift that you can do with as you see fit. You can squander it - or you can start over. And you can do that every second of every day. Every moment of your life is an opportunity for a new beginning.”
Disclaimer: I don't own The L.A. Complex. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Dean... Dean I'd know what to do with. ;-)
Thanks for reading! Feedback = Love. ;-) Please leave comments here at my LJ or at AO3 if it's not too much trouble.
Author's Notes: Written for the 2013 Spinoff Story Big!Bang. I would have never discovered The L.A. Complex if it hadn't been for Louis Ferreira's guest role portraying Dean Pirelli. The character fascinated me and filled me with both pity and loathing, a classic reaction to the tragic (anti) hero. I wanted to know what happened to Dean Pirelli and his children after the season (and, sadly, the entire series) ended.
The story is written in episodic narrative, in the style of a TV series pitch with broad sweeping summaries interspersed with scene dialogue, since the challenge was to develop a new spinoff series to an existing TV show.
My thanks go to Martin Gero for creating such compelling characters and to the actors for making them come alive. Special thanks to Louis Ferreira whose portrayal of Dean Pirelli made the character so heartbreakingly human with all his flaws. The character of Lou Kwanlin is modeled after one of my favorite First Nations actors, Graham Greene (who is in fact Iroquois, not Southern Tutchone). His quiet demeanor, his smiles, gestures and gentle voice helped create this character in my mind who is very much based on The Helper in Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces". Thanks to my patient beta readers and to tiggerrocks1 for the support. And finally, thanks to nickygabriel for organizing this unusual Big!Bang.
"We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the fullest."
- Marcel Proust
This story was published at AO3 because its size exceeds LiveJournal post capacities.
The Yukon Complex Story Link
Original artwork for The Yukon Complex
.
.
Artwork by shena8 and nickygabriel
(click on the thumbnails for a link to large versions)
.