Footsoldiers on Uneven Ground, by Minx (PG)
Rec Category: Bra'tac
Pairing: none
Categories: Bra'tac, character study, original character, pre-series
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: _minxy_
Author's Website: fic post
Link: Footsoldiers on Uneven Ground
Why This Must Be Read: Minxy offers us an intriguing glimpse of pre-series Bra'tac, as he quietly talks with the brave woman who dared to step through the Stargate, small child in tow, to seek refuge on Chulak after Cronus had her husband put to death.
Minxy lovingly invests a crucial, cryptic figure of Teal'c's past with strength of character and clear-eyed vision. Bra'tac moves through the stylized motions of convention, but Mehr'auc rejects the convenience and comfort of a marriage offer, determined to wage her own wars of honor. Their conversation is a stately dance of point and counter-point; we see the first subtle seeds of questioning planted in Bra'tac's mind, and watch the first tendrils of connection between Teal'c and Bra'tac root themselves into the future.
I love fics that give us insights into what shaped the characters we know and love. In Footsoldiers on Uneven Ground, Minxy shows us the people that Bra'tac and Teal'c were, and how they might have grown into the people we so admire. Read this one thoughtfully, and enjoy!
"Such a thing is admirable in a boy, especially one who lost his father so young."
"Not if he seeks revenge," Mehr’auc suddenly looked tired, her voice losing all its previous vehemence, the shadows hollowing into her skin. "Not if he continues to lay the blame for his father’s death at the hands of the one who killed him."
"Where else would he place it?" He spoke before he could think, before he remembered that this was not a woman failing to understand her warrior boy, before he remembered the rumor that they had come under the shadow of their former God’s displeasure, that her husband had failed and fallen at Kronos’ hand.
"Indeed," she replied. "It is fortuitous that it may be seen in such a light on Chulak."
Pairing: none
Categories: Bra'tac, character study, original character, pre-series
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: _minxy_
Author's Website: fic post
Link: Footsoldiers on Uneven Ground
Why This Must Be Read: Minxy offers us an intriguing glimpse of pre-series Bra'tac, as he quietly talks with the brave woman who dared to step through the Stargate, small child in tow, to seek refuge on Chulak after Cronus had her husband put to death.
Minxy lovingly invests a crucial, cryptic figure of Teal'c's past with strength of character and clear-eyed vision. Bra'tac moves through the stylized motions of convention, but Mehr'auc rejects the convenience and comfort of a marriage offer, determined to wage her own wars of honor. Their conversation is a stately dance of point and counter-point; we see the first subtle seeds of questioning planted in Bra'tac's mind, and watch the first tendrils of connection between Teal'c and Bra'tac root themselves into the future.
I love fics that give us insights into what shaped the characters we know and love. In Footsoldiers on Uneven Ground, Minxy shows us the people that Bra'tac and Teal'c were, and how they might have grown into the people we so admire. Read this one thoughtfully, and enjoy!
"Such a thing is admirable in a boy, especially one who lost his father so young."
"Not if he seeks revenge," Mehr’auc suddenly looked tired, her voice losing all its previous vehemence, the shadows hollowing into her skin. "Not if he continues to lay the blame for his father’s death at the hands of the one who killed him."
"Where else would he place it?" He spoke before he could think, before he remembered that this was not a woman failing to understand her warrior boy, before he remembered the rumor that they had come under the shadow of their former God’s displeasure, that her husband had failed and fallen at Kronos’ hand.
"Indeed," she replied. "It is fortuitous that it may be seen in such a light on Chulak."