Circle of Friends Remix Story!

[sroni]

Round 2 of the Circle of Friends Remix is now open for reading at cof_remix.

Disclaimer: Please don’t sue me. I only have pocket lint. Characters either belong to Joss Whedon or J.K. Rowling. I don’t own them.

The original story is “In Truth, Beauty” by Kathryn Andersen.

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

Oh, that's so fun and lovely! An excellent alternate look at the original. (which I also loved, but couldn't leave any comment for some reason)

[sroni]

Thank you very much! I read the original a while ago, and keep going back to re-read it because I love it.

[kerravonsen]

\o/

[kerravonsen]

Thank you!

In regard to comments, my apologies for the broken link on the original page, I've fixed it now.
If you want to leave a comment, the story is archived at various different places where it might be easier to leave comments:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2884877/1/In-Truth-Beauty
http://archiveofourown.org/works/17042

[aadler]

This was DELIGHTFUL!

When I approach a remix, my first act is to go read the original story, so I can assess how closely the remix follows and how creatively it varies from the source material. The one by Kathryn (kerravonsen) was entertaining and carried the flavor of the characters as we know them; this honors that story, while carrying it so much farther, and doing so beautifully.

The narrative was a huge part of this. At Lemon drop? in the second paragraph, I knew immediately who was telling the story (perfect touch), and the personality consistently came through without ever becoming intrusive

[sroni]

The "Bunsen burner" line was actually taken from one of her drabbles in the series.

The first thing I did when I decided to do this story was ask myself, "WHY did Snape place an order with a store in Sunnydale, California to start this whole thing off?" I came up with a theory of Hellmouth items being more potent, I thought about Snape placing orders with stores all over the world to cover his tracks, I thought about Dumbledore intercepting the letter and sending it off to someone else- and that's when things began to meld together in my head.

I decided to use the five sentences to frame things, just to see if it would work. I liked it a lot, so I kept it in. I'm glad that it worked as well as I hoped it would!

Thank you very much for your feedback! Yours, and the writers I remix, are always the feedback I look forward to the most.

[kerravonsen]

Love the title! (grin) (I'm going to have that song going through my head for the rest of the day, I'm sure)

Ah, Dumbledore, the old meddler. (smirk)

Interesting device there, to have that repetition of the introductory paragraph, with each part being added on and explained as it went.

It's really rather fascinating to read this reinterpretation... because it makes me realize the things I left out of the series, left open to interpretation, such as the actual location and order of events.

Now, she was not about to go to the backwoods village she started in. It was probably overrun by rabbits, anyway, and that just wasn’t a place she wanted to be.

(grin)

He liked having his own space, though, and she liked walking around her apartment naked. Those two things just wouldn’t mix.

(smirk)

She nodded in agreement, nothing hidden in her eyes. “Yes, I did. Don’t know how that means I think you’re stupid.”

So very Anya.

She met his eyes steadily. “The lower you fall, the more you had to climb to get back up here. You didn’t fall as

[deird1]

This is excellent! I love the way you fleshed out the beginning of their relationship. The acerbic correspondence worked so well.

Nice Work

[eilandesq]

I've got a soft spot for Anya, and SS could easily be a good match for her if he was inclined to allow himself to be happy. Both the original and the remix felt right.