Unconventional Courtship entry: Born Great (Wesley/Illyria, PG13)

[brutti_ma_buoni]

For the rather marvellous DW comm Unconventional Courtship, a multi-fandom challenge to take those hellish romance novel summaries as prompts and write something someone might want to read. (I used to *inhale* harlequin romances as a teenager. Either the blurbs were better, I never read the back covers, or my critical faculties were zero. Plus, I

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[laurose8]

Thank you for a really excellent, added-to-memories fic.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Thanks so much!

[zanthinegirl]

I like this story a whooole bunch. You made me a little sniffly! But the ending was perfect.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

It's such a difficult pairing, but it's also one that fascinates me. Also, also, the only one I can ever use to write mpreg seriously - otherwise my brain doesn't take it at all well. (It was all going to be a bit cold and grim, but Natalie seemed like she should have a voice too.)

[slaymesoftly]

Oh - that was so... normal! LOL Wonderful use of the shudder-worthy prompt.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Thanks! Something about the summary made me want to turn it right upside down, and Wesley/Illyria seemed like it would do the job...

[eilowyn]

This is one of those fics that become headcanon so fast you can only say "well, of course it happened that way!"

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Aww, thank you so much!

[snickfic]

This made me :DDDDD all over. I loved it, start to finish: Wesley having trouble coping with grace, and Illyria being softer somehow, and Giles being totally unhelpful. Yes. And the ending was so perfect - precarious normality indeed!

YAY. <3

(Although, I am laughing at the fic that resulted from that summary. They are, hmm, not very alike. :D)

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Heh. I may have mentioned that the prompt made me want to subvert it utterly. I'm glad the results pleased you (and thanks for the instant rec)!