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Pegasus Ethics, by the_drifter (criminal challenge)

Oct 02, 2007 22:59

Title: Pegasus Ethics
Author: the_drifter (fiercelydreamed)
Summary: Survival is a criminal act. Seven people, six conversations.
Notes: 5300 words, spoilers through S3, mild language. Many thanks to secrethappiness for betaing.

( Two nights after Richard Woolsey gated back to Earth to give his report to the I.O.A., Elizabeth turned to John and asked, 'Have you ever read the Geneva Conventions?' )

author: fiercelydreamed, challenge: criminal

Comments 99

liamar13 October 3 2007, 08:16:40 UTC

this was amazing. i love each and every one of them though i have a soft spot for #4. thats exactly how it would, and should, be. but i love the rest too, did i mention that? they all show real insight and thought and care with the way you represent each person, so true to themselves as we see them but with an added depth. as i said amazing.

fiercelydreamed October 6 2007, 01:51:54 UTC

Wow, thank you so much. *smiles* This was a different kind of story than I've tackled before, and I'm glad you enjoyed them.

anatsuno October 3 2007, 08:49:37 UTC

Oh, Ronon. I'm so sorry you can't think any other way. *pets*

I love these, all of them, for the character insights and the care you took writing them, simple and pitch-perfect at the same time. I love your language, how invisible it can make itself, how clear and flowing it is. It all feels so very real, canon almost, so good. Thank you.

fiercelydreamed October 6 2007, 01:53:35 UTC

*hugs* Thanks, Ana. My mission statement for this was to try to ... reclaim canon, I guess -- see if I could write the scenes that made some of the horribly problematic things they do make some kind of internal sense. And setting myself a maximum per-scene word count is apparently a good way to make me streamline my prose. *laughs*

P.S. I'm still percolating on that other thing, btw!

anatsuno October 6 2007, 10:56:19 UTC

(YAY!)

ratcreature October 3 2007, 09:23:28 UTC

This was very cool.

fiercelydreamed October 6 2007, 01:53:52 UTC

Thanks!

spike21 October 3 2007, 10:45:17 UTC

this was beautifully thought out and beautifully executed.

fiercelydreamed October 6 2007, 01:54:18 UTC

Thank you. And great icon, btw!

cathexys October 3 2007, 10:56:25 UTC

Oh, these were marvelous! You walked the thin line between putting forth your ideas and letting the characters speak, but the thoughts and lines you gave each and every one of them worked amazingly! I loved the ethical questioning between Ronon and Teyla, both positions being supportable and I especially loved the outsider view on Atlantis as family and the inherent dangers.

The only one that didn't fully work for me was the last one, because Im' not sure the military would really see this behavior as strength. I can believe Lorne getting it, but I also think there's a certain belief in rules and the fact that only rules can help in complex situations and when time is of the essence that I don't share but I think is pretty common... Then again, I might just be too angry with our actual political decision making :D

Gorgeously written and so sure in tone...thank you!!!!!

fiercelydreamed October 6 2007, 02:02:45 UTC

Thanks so much (and for the rec, too!). Tackling this was both fun and hard -- ethics was never my niche in philosophy, and I didn't want to get either too academic or too "freshman philosophy," so it's nice to think I hit the balance okay ( ... )