Fic: Guinevere of the High Seas (Gwen/Morgana)

[ilthit]

Title: Guinevere of the High Seas
Author: Hyel
Fandom: Merlin (BBC)
Pairing(s): Gwen/Morgana
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Pirate AU, but not a very cheerful one.
Note: I meant this as a long fic for thelittlebangoriginally, but couldn't make it work, so just made a short version.
Warnings: Violence, mourning, (canonical, sort of) character death and a non-canonical

Comments

[ilthit]

(OT: Your icon was so gorgeous it mesmerized me and made it impossible to reply to this before I'd hunted up a similar Gwen pic to put on my desktop. Oh, so lovely.)

Thank you very much! Although the connections to Arthurian canon are probably accidental, so don't give me credit for that; I don't really see anything non-BBC Arthurian there... Pirate myths though, yes. :)

[ilthit]

Thank you very much! :)

[sophinisba]

This is great. I really like that your pirates are nasty and not fantasy freedom-loving good guys, and also lots of yay for Gwen and Morgana in boys' clothes with swords!

[ilthit]

Thank you! Glad you liked it. :)

I like writing nasty dirty sailors. There's a curious balance between cruelty and humanity in soldiers and sailors, it seems.

[emei]

Oh, this is gorgeously dark in the best of ways - and I love that you make them pirates and strong and right without overly romanticising. And pirate myths and men's clothing and swords and rough men with strange honour. <3

[ilthit]

Thank you very much!

I am sometimes irked by overly romantic descriptions of the bast. You should at least have a little mention of the squalor and nastiness...

[pandarus]

Oh, this was lovely! Very well done! Pirates for the win, femmeslash for the win, and kickass Gwen also for the win! Win win win!

[ilthit]

Thank you very much! :D