Title: Where Wind and Water Meet
Artist:
morph0fairyAuthor:
firefly_caRating (art/fic if different): PG
Word Count: 24K
Warnings (if any): Major character death wrapped up in magic realism.
Fic Summary: Inspired by/loosely based on George MacDonald's At The Back of the North Wind. Blaine has never behaved the way normal children do and has always been too quiet and detached from the world around him. Everything changes the day he meets a strange boy named Kurt with the ability to change his appearance and who says he can control the wind. Blaine doesn't know why, but it feels like he's known Kurt forever. AU, but not totally detached from the Glee universe.
A/N: So this is the weirdest thing I've ever written. Why write death fic when I can hardly read it myself? Based on an obscure Victorian children's fantasy novel about 13 other people have read? My only defense is that morph0fairy's picture jumped out at me the second I saw it and made me go, "OMG just like it came out of the pages of that story about
the kid who's BFFs with the wind and makes me cry so hard." However, like I said, I have death fic issues at the best of times, so don't expect this story to be all about the sad ending. If I pulled this off at all, expect a story that has an admittedly atypical happy ending, not unlike what Hans Christian Andersen was fond of (somewhat depressing and somewhere someone is in tears, but everyone gets what they need).
Huge thanks to
morph0fairy for not only submitting an amazing piece, but for happily agreeing to work on additional art and putting up with my incoherent dolphin noises after I saw what she'd created. Also, thanks as always to my betas
callmerayray and
loonylevicorpus for not running away screaming when I asked them, "Haha so what do you guys think about death fic?"
Link to Art:
for chapter 1,
for chapter 2,
for chapter 3,
for chapter 5 (original submission).
UPDATE: Permission to ASDFJKL;, please.
gabci made some awesome kickass fanart for this story, which you can see
here. To reiterate: ASDFJKL; :D :D :D
Link to Fic:
Prologue |
Chapter 1 |
Chapter 2 |
Chapter 3 |
Chapter 4 |
Chapter 5