Casket Boy Masterpost (J2, NC-17)
Title : Casket Boy
Author : siriala
Artist : bumerbmw
Rating : NC-17
Word count : 87,000
Fandoms : J2 AU, RPS
Characters : Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mark Sheppard ; also in supporting roles and in order of appearance : Sebastian Roché, Katie Cassidy, Jim Beaver, Mark Pellegrino, Julian Richings, Kevin McNally, Julia Maxwell, Corin Nemec, Chad Michael Murray, Mitch Pileggi, Fredric Lehne, Lauren Tom, Rick Worthy, Sterling K. Brown, Cindy Sampson, Misha Collins, Mishael Morgan, Brandon Jones, Samantha Ferris, Samantha Smith, Michael Massee...
Pairings : Jensen/Jared, Jared/Jeff (unrequited), Misha/Mishael, Sam F/Sam S, Katie/Rick
Genre : AU, slash, het (not main characters), historical fantasy
Beta : English is not my first language so don't go expecting Shakespeare but more of a trash-novel writer. honscot worked hard to make it all better but I'm stubborn, so praise her for all the good parts and blame me for all the bad ones.
Disclaimer : I'm only using the appearances of some fantastic actors of my favorite TV-shows (and the CW universe) to create a fiction, nothing in this story is true.
Warnings/enticements : a/b/o universe, omega!bottom!Jared, alpha!top!Jensen, a lot of publicly naked Jared, abuse and slight torture in dub- and non-con situations (including rimming, fingering, spanking, blink-and-you'll-miss-it het sex… but no "full" rape if that makes a difference) with men and an animal (no real bestiality), involuntary aphrodisiac intake, mentions of mpreg and children's death and abandonment, mentions of animal species extermination, quite unpleasant social order.
Summary : Every day, Jared could feel that his life was going nowhere fast. Every day he wondered why he hadn't found his true alpha already.
And then a man came to the orphanage to recruit omegas like him to leave the mainland for the Islands, where they would meet many unmated alphas to start a new life and increase the colony's population. Jared was ready to try despite the dangers, but maybe he was not ready to meet someone like Jensen Ackles.
Author's notes : this fic is directly inspired by the story of the "Filles du Roy", The King's Daughters. These women were courageous pioneers, often young and poor orphans but not only, who were recruited to leave France for the Nouvelle-France province in Canada, to settle and marry, with a financial help from the king, in order to create many families for a wealthier colony. For a decade beginning in 1663, about 800 of them left the old continent in small groups. The majority of them settled and had many children, sometimes through more than one marriage, so that they are now found in a lot of original Quebecers' genealogical trees. The "Filles de la cassette" (Casket Girls) were later sent to Louisiana, mostly for the same purpose. Some of those women sent over to the colonies might have come from a shady background but the common belief that they were all prostitutes is a shame and very much untrue, especially concerning the King's daughters. The casket refers to the very practical trousseau given to the women to help them settle in a place that was not always very hospitable and, in French, to the royal treasury that paid for their trips and other expenses.
While this story is nothing more than silly and porn-y entertainment, it might seem weird at first to use a man to "give homage" to those women born at a time when wanderlust was only encouraged and admired about males, but I thought the a/b/o fandom trope is a good equivalent and substitute to the rules of western societies back in the 17th century. The fic itself, in the best Hollywood tradition, is a mix of historical facts and pure invention diluted with anachronisms. Enjoy !
More notes : I cast in the parts of Jensen's family actors from other shows whose names I altered in part or completely (click the names for pics) : his brothers are played by Josh Dallas and Eric Christian Olsen, his father, Matlin Ackles, by Timothy V. Murphy and his o-dad, Nappy, by Titus Welliver (who also played War in Supernatural). You don't need to know them to read the story.
Yet more notes : the lyrics used in the fic are taken from White Light by Starsailor.
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10 - Author's notes and thanks - AO3 - Art masterpost.
A huge thank you to my artist bumerbmw. Go admire her artwork and please tell her how lovely her work is !