MAES 52: Oh, What Songs of the Heart

[renaiya880727]

Oh, What Songs of the Heart

Jack Aubrey could not sleep.

This was a quite unusual thing in him. Sleep usually came to him as easily as breathing, a habit formed early in his naval career, borne of necessity. It was quite necessary now, he knew, what with the interminable and innumerable problems to resolve in regards to the squadron.

But

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[alltoseek]

My god, so lovely... absolutely beautiful.

I love the way you handled the transition of the POV, through the shared music - like they were both making it, like they usually are, even though it was just Jack, but Jack playing at Stephen's request, for Stephen, a song of them both. Marvelous!

Yes, this is how Stephen could endure and press on through all his melancholy.

[renaiya880727]

There's a violin song called "Brothers" from the Fullmetal Alchemist anime, that I always play in my head whenever I read the passage about Jack's sad music. The sound of the music, not to mention the title of the song, seems very fitting to me.

Do you agree?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn3Z6erqMA

[alltoseek]

It's lovely! :-)

[esteven]

Thank you for that link. It is a lovely piece, and very fitting.

[esteven]

It was a tuneless melody of perfect understanding; a song of shared love, an expression of unending support, trust and companionship. A song, too, that was indicative of a shared pain - differing in its exact aspects, but of equal weight and a sore burden to those who felt it. But a burden made lesser, merely by the knowledge that one was suffering right alongside you.

This to me is the perfect description of how Jack would play. The passage from Commodore is one of my favourites and you extened it into even more beauty.

Will you not add the link to the Fullmetal Alchemist theme to your fic post at PD, maybe noting that this is what you had in mind when you wrote the piece?