Precipice (The Last of the Mohicans, Alice Munro, PG13)

[lareinenoire]

Title: Precipice
Author: lareinenoire
Rating: PG13 (for thematic material and violence)
Fandom: The Last of the Mohicans (filmverse)
Prompt: #36. I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. --Harriet Tubman.
Summary: She can feel the wind whistling behind

Comments

[thistlerose]

Oh my god, I can hardly believe someone wrote about Alice. That makes me very happy. And this is a lovely, believable sketch of her. And of Cora, by contrast. Nicely done.

My one criticism - since you asked - is a small inconsistency. At one point you have Munro pulling Alice away from the man who fell off the roof; later, you say that Munro never protected her, that it was always Cora. But, like I said, it's a small thing.

[nineveh_uk]

An original choice, and an excellent fic that explores Alice’s rather passive characterisation as presented in the film without needing to change it. I particularly liked Alice’s understanding of Uncas as a younger sibling, which I’d not thought of before. Lots of visual sense of place, too, which fits the scene.

::confesses to being a bit of a Duncan fangirl::