WIP completed: Ars Moriendi

[donnaimmaculata]

My Aramis-whumping psychological horror story is now complete:

Title: Ars Moriendi
Author: Donna Immaculata
Rating: Mature for disturbing themes
Characters: Aramis, Athos, Porthos, d'Artagnan
Word count: 25,187
Summary: In the wake of Marsac's burial, Aramis doesn't sleep.
Notes: Inspired by the idea I’ve seen pop up in several places that Marsac

Comments

[asthenie_vd]

Oh, I have been eagerly awaiting the concluding part of this! Will read ASAP. :)

[donnaimmaculata]

:-) Enjoy!

[donnaimmaculata]

I'm glad to hear it! :-)

[fredbassett]

Read this through today and absolutely loved it! Your writing is beautiful and the research was integrated so seamlessly. Really great stuff.

[donnaimmaculata]

Thank you, I'm delighted you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun writing it, but it was a rather WTF theme. So it's good to know that people liked it.

[el1ie]

Oh, I loved every second of this, a strange and unusual tale but one that fitted into the show beautifully.

I loved the way you drew the characters, so outwardly independent and strong and yet underneath there's all this unsure torment and inner fears. Such a creepy tale and you piled on the horror with a fantastic sense of foreboding and I was deeply immersed in your world all the way along, wondering how on earth this could be happening and how on earth you were going to actually resolve it.

Wonderful, wonderful resolution, the dialogue between all the characters in the last chapter was a delight to read, their dry wit and cunning plotting came across as the perfect ending.

Thank you so much.

[donnaimmaculata]

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it. It is a strange tale, and I couldn't be sure that anyone would be interested in a multi-chapter zombie!Marsac story at all :-)

I loved the way you drew the characters, so outwardly independent and strong and yet underneath there's all this unsure torment and inner fears.

The great thing about writing fanfiction is that not much explanation re: their inner torments is required. I didn't explain anything about what Athos was going through, because we all know that he hanged his wife and was haunted and almost killed by her "ghost". And so Aramis' story was bound to resonate with him.

Glad the resolution worked for you. I planned to keep it ambiguous all along, because I think it's creepier that way - and because it was supposed to be psychological horror, rather than zombie-invasion horror.

Thanks again for your lovely comment :-)

[el1ie]

Haha, as a refugee from the supernatural fandom, you only have to wave the hint of a ghost story under my nose and I'm there in a flash! Zombie!Marsac was as enticing as catnip!

Although I do have to agree that psychological horror is far creepier and menacing than you average actual zombie, so I was more than delighted with this.

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[donnaimmaculata]

Well, that's lucky then. Zombie!Marsac has done his bit for the community, who would've thought it? :-)

I was a big fan of those old black and white horror films, back in the days when they used to be on television late at night, where nothing worse happens than darkness, shadows and the occasional rattling doorhandle. And so I tried to emulate this kind of atmosphere in the fic.

[donnaimmaculata]

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it :-)