elysium, explained
Elysium - FamBiz Explains Herself
Okay.
Enough people have mentioned confusion over the intended meaning of my latest fic, Elysium, that I feel compelled to offer an explanation. So this is what, in my mind, that story is about. I have a way of writing that’s almost hopelessly vague sometimes, and I genuinely wanted to make people feel confused and wrong-footed, so I guess that worked! But I hoped the ending would offer clarity to readers. And It seems that it did not.
My apologies. On to the unraveling.
The story opens with Sam waking up in a field, having no memory of how he came to be there. He’s a bit spooked, understandably, but can’t put his finger on why. Fortunately, right then Dean shows up! Sort of.
Anyone who’s seen Dark Side Of The Moon (and if you haven’t, quit being a terrible fangirl and go watch it) will be familiar with the idea of interacting with one of your memories. Sam’s no stranger to this either, but things take a turn for the weird when his memories start happening differently than the way he remembers them. Instead of a nice day flying kites with his brother, he gets electrocuted and burned. Dean shoots him at target practice and kills him by smoke inhalation. What the hell, Dean?
Sam figures this has to be a dream and curls up under a likely looking tree, waiting for his brother to wake him up. While he waits, he draws a pattern in the dirt. The pattern is four circles and kind of looks like this:
Sam doesn’t remember what this is, but senses its importance.
After a while he crawls out and finds his field has changed. Now it kind of looks like this:
Thoroughly scared now, Sam becomes convinced his brother is dying, but the joke’s on him, because just as he starts to hope things will be okay, Lucifer gets tired of this game and tears all the scenery down.
He was in hell the whole time.