Band of Brothers: The Velveteen Soldier (Speirs-centric, R)
Title: The Velveteen Soldier
Author: bookstorequeer
Crafter 1: flyingmachine
Crafter 2: crediniaeth
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Character/Pairing(s): Speirs-centric, Speirs/Lipton (brief references to possible Nixon/Winters)
Rating: R for war violence, violence, some sex, and homophobic slurs
Disclaimer: This never happened and I own no one. Written with the actors, not the real men in mind. No disrespect intended. To anyone.
Word Count: ~29,600
Warnings: war-violence, violence, death (war), character death (canon), character death (main character - old age/illness), homophobia, some smut
Summary: "Does it hurt?" asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."An exploration in Speirs. This is a look at the biggest bad-ass of Easy, from a young age living with his parents in Maine to old age living with his partner, Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton, in Montana. How did he go from being the quiet boy no one wanted on their baseball team in PE (even if he could run the bases faster than anyone else) to being the quiet foster father of four? From being a war hero and CO of Easy Company to being a handyman that all the women in the neighbourhood called upon? From being rumour-riddled and nightmare-haunted to being loved and care-worn? This is the story of how Ronald C. Speirs became Real.
Link to Craft 1: Amazing art from flyingmachine
Link to Craft 2: Fantastic fanmix from crediniaeth
Links to Fic: chapter 1 || chapter 2 || chapter 3 || chapter 4 || chapter 5 || chapter 6 || epilogue
|| masterpost ||
Companion piece: Prodigal Son Masterpost
Huge thanks to Don, my beta, who helped figure out how to make this the best it could be.
Author: bookstorequeer
Crafter 1: flyingmachine
Crafter 2: crediniaeth
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Character/Pairing(s): Speirs-centric, Speirs/Lipton (brief references to possible Nixon/Winters)
Rating: R for war violence, violence, some sex, and homophobic slurs
Disclaimer: This never happened and I own no one. Written with the actors, not the real men in mind. No disrespect intended. To anyone.
Word Count: ~29,600
Warnings: war-violence, violence, death (war), character death (canon), character death (main character - old age/illness), homophobia, some smut
Summary: "Does it hurt?" asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."An exploration in Speirs. This is a look at the biggest bad-ass of Easy, from a young age living with his parents in Maine to old age living with his partner, Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton, in Montana. How did he go from being the quiet boy no one wanted on their baseball team in PE (even if he could run the bases faster than anyone else) to being the quiet foster father of four? From being a war hero and CO of Easy Company to being a handyman that all the women in the neighbourhood called upon? From being rumour-riddled and nightmare-haunted to being loved and care-worn? This is the story of how Ronald C. Speirs became Real.
Link to Craft 1: Amazing art from flyingmachine
Link to Craft 2: Fantastic fanmix from crediniaeth
Links to Fic: chapter 1 || chapter 2 || chapter 3 || chapter 4 || chapter 5 || chapter 6 || epilogue
|| masterpost ||
Companion piece: Prodigal Son Masterpost
Huge thanks to Don, my beta, who helped figure out how to make this the best it could be.