Epic (Ancient History challenge)

[2ndary_author]

Title: Epic
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Rodney, John, Miko, assorted OC linguists
Rating: Pg-15
A/N: no disrespect meant to Greeks or linguists; epigraph by Nikos Kazantzakis (who is Greek although not, I think, a linguist). 
Summary: Epic: from the Greek--story, tale, song

"Every perfect traveler always creates the

Comments

[madripoor_rose]

Brilliant! Just...weirdly believable for the Ancients to actually do, so the twist is neat. Great story.

[2ndary_author]

haha, oh, those tricksy Ancients! Thanks for commenting:)

[spankys]

Hey, I believed it! Well, within the fictional world of SGA anyway. Great story!

[2ndary_author]

Originally, I planned for it to be much more obviously a joke on Rodney, but then *I* got to believing it, too. So now John's line reads more like: "don't go waking the linguists up to argue them out of this Rodney; know when you're beat." Glad you liked it!

Epic - story

[maxinemayer]

This is an amazing, delightful story! Poor Rodney! I enjoyed it so much! Thank you for sharing.
Love, max

[shaenie]

This was lots of fun! Thank you!

[bratfarrar]

Very cool--I've always wondered about the linguistics department. You'd think there'd need to be one, but it's never visible in the show. But this is exactly the relationship I would imagine exists between them and Rodney.

Afterwards, he goes back to his lab and spends a few hours deriving all of the laws of wave mechanics, just to calm his mind.

So very Rodney.

Just one note: Miko calls John "Colonel" at the beginning, but Rodney calls him "Major" at the end. It's a little unclear which he's supposed to be.

[2ndary_author]

oh, good catch! I changed my mind in the middle of writing it, decided to set things during season one, and did not adjust titles accordingly.