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002- So This Is Freedom

Aug 24, 2009 17:10

Title: So This Is Freedom
Author: brennanspeaks
Rating: PG-13 for language and violence
Prompt: 002, Astral Queen
Characters: Zarek, Meier
A/N: Takes place immediately after "Bastille Day."

( So this is freedom )

zarek, meier, author: brennanspeaks, 002, pg-13, fic

Comments 8

grey_sw August 24 2009, 21:24:12 UTC

Wow, awesome. I don't think I've ever seen a fic which dealt with this part of the series, and Zarek's way of handling it here is perfectly in-character. Great job!

brennanspeaks August 24 2009, 23:38:36 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you thought Zarek was IC. He's a tough one for me to figure out.

ecstaticdance August 24 2009, 21:28:39 UTC

This line:
They were all from Sagittaron or Aerilon or Tauron-poor colonies that had no less to offer their children now, as radioactive balls of rock, than they had a year ago.

makes me want to weep. Hopelessness is an epidemic.

Well done story. Zarek is... a very twisted man, but I think you captured the logic and the cold rationality behind his insanity.

brennanspeaks August 24 2009, 23:54:31 UTC

Thanks for the review! Your response tells me that I achieved what I set out to do with Zarek. I wanted him to seem a little jarring, a little unbalanced, but not so much that you couldn't see where he was coming from.

Thanks for reading!

safenthecity August 25 2009, 01:19:38 UTC

Oooh, unexpected fic from you is unexpected! (but a pleasant surprise!)

I love this. It's so Zarek. The way his opinion of the cells as nothing but cages while many of the others of the ship are all too ready to turn them into proper rooms... and then his reaction to having the captain's quarters, his own room again.

And the end. It was chilling. There's the Zarek I love to hate while hating to love.

brennanspeaks August 25 2009, 02:01:15 UTC

:D
Yeah, it was unexpected for me, too, though the idea has been bouncing around since bakatulip posted the prompt. Still, it was a good way to while away the time after lab. Maybe being back at school has renewed my work ethic. (shrugs)

I'm glad you enjoyed the cage imagery. I found I kept coming back to that, because it's such a pervasive symbol of how free they're not. (There's that ugly "s" word, though;)

Chilling, huh? Methinks my work here is done . . .

Thanks for the awesome review!

elzed August 30 2009, 23:56:12 UTC

Excellent and unexpected look at something I had never thought about, but is instantly fascinating. And you give good Zarek, it must be said...

brennanspeaks August 31 2009, 04:35:35 UTC

Thank you! That's the great thing about this comm for me; there are so many opportunities to dabble with characters and storylines I otherwise would never have thought of. This was my first time writing Zarek, so I'm glad it worked for you.