Rosemary, for Remembrance (Stargate Atlantis) 3/3 COMPLETE

[mhalachaiswords]

Rosemary, for Remembrance 3/3
A Stargate Atlantis story

Summary: And then there was the time John Sheppard turned into a girl and no one thought it was strange but Rodney McKay.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Sony and MGM own all things Stargate Atlantis. I but borrow.
Spoilers: Follows Season 5 "The Shrine"; spoilers for episodes up to then.
Pairing:

Comments

[djinanna]

This was fabulous. I keep saying "I'm not a gender-swap fan" but then keep reading them because they're often such a wonderful view into the characters, um, characters.

Now here you've got a great new twist on the genderswap, both in how it's functioning initially and in the resolution. And the title (and name of the character) is absolutely perfect. Just thinking it, "Rosemary, for Remembrance", gives me huge chills up and down my back. And the ordeal for John/Joan and Rosemary is described just enough to let the reader's imagination fill in the details and *shiver*.

I generally like stories with the loose ends tied up neatly and the questions raised all neatly answered - unless those loose ends & questions are the lead-in to a sequel, of course - but the loose ends/unanswered questions here are kinda perfect, leaving this story-verse as a weird and mysterious universe and the Ancients as skeevy bastards (too bad you didn't get this finished in time to post at sgaflashfic (er, that should be) sga_flashfic's "skeevy Ancients" challenge!) and not

What do they remember?

[ponderoid]

Very interesting. I like how you showed McKay being quite aware of the butterfly issue inherent in this kind of major universe alteration

[jujuberry136]

When I got to the line about Rosemary going into hysterics there were goosebumps all over my body.

REALLY interesting explanation for the gender-swapping.

Thanks for sharing :D

[beneficia]

Finally part 3! *reads*

Rosemary knows! I didn't see that coming. Or the rest of this ending. I kept thinking the Ancient-Shadow-thingy-person-being would either stick them in one timeline, or would have to make some change to the John-verse to keep Rosemary alive, like have a certain someone else make a wish to be a girl on that trip to save her, and then there'd be John/Joan & Rodney/Meredith switching, but I like this too.

McKay and his best friend who is sometimes a girl and his girlfriend who is sometimes a guy, who is the same person. Because his life is just that weird.

BTW, have you ever seen Swirlygate? This story kept reminding me of the "...where we're played by men." line they always end with.

[e313]

i enjoyed reading this very much; john and joan, their differences and similarities and how they related to work, Atlantis, everybody else and Rodney was fascinating.