Very lovely. I love how you explore what Ori occupation means to the people of the planets they occupy. Using Jonas, who for all that he was SGC and still, to an extent, is SGC, works, especially since he is not Tau'ri and never was. I like the way you used the manipulations Nirrti did to him as a way for him to resist the Prior and to become a figure of resistance for his people, even if he didn't actively fight against them. I also love that you delineated the difference between physically fighting against them and using ideas to fight against the Ori. It is a nice one that highlights just how much more superior the Ori were in being able to suppress any physical revolt.
More than that, I like that you made the winter another character in this, the way it defined so much of Jonas and the other people he eventually gathers around him.
The last section, back with the SGC, is a lovely tribute to what Jonas identified in an earlier part: that the SGC and in particular SG-1 have to look at the grand scheme of things and not the individual, no matter how much their personal feelings on it. Also, just the dissonance Jonas feels at being back at the SGC and how he is treated differently. Especially, his lack of recognition at how much he has changed and how that worries people. I'm glad SG-1 closes ranks around him and protects him against others as well as his recognition that he can't go back home while the Ori are there or he'll die.
I've always thought it was something of a missed opportunity that they never did fully explore what it would be like living under Ori occupation - because that would've just been fascinating. So, here I am, giving it a shot. :D
And the section at the SGC is my effort to explain to myself, more than anyone else, why exactly Jonas was effectively abandoned by SG-1, with nothing more than a passing reference. So, yes. ♥♥
Very lovely character piece. Don't you just love it when a character study gets to twenty thousand words? :D Thank you. ♥♥
More than that, I like that you made the winter another character in this, the way it defined so much of Jonas and the other people he eventually gathers around him.
The last section, back with the SGC, is a lovely tribute to what Jonas identified in an earlier part: that the SGC and in particular SG-1 have to look at the grand scheme of things and not the individual, no matter how much their personal feelings on it. Also, just the dissonance Jonas feels at being back at the SGC and how he is treated differently. Especially, his lack of recognition at how much he has changed and how that worries people. I'm glad SG-1 closes ranks around him and protects him against others as well as his recognition that he can't go back home while the Ori are there or he'll die.
Very lovely character piece.
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And the section at the SGC is my effort to explain to myself, more than anyone else, why exactly Jonas was effectively abandoned by SG-1, with nothing more than a passing reference. So, yes. ♥♥
Very lovely character piece.
Don't you just love it when a character study gets to twenty thousand words? :D Thank you. ♥♥
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