FIC: Red-Headed Stepchild

[snickfic]

Title: Red-Headed Stepchild
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Lilith, Abaddon
Words / Rating: 1100 words / G
Spoilers: through 8.12
Warnings: blatant misuse of historical religious tradition (so, like the show, basically)
Summary: Being the story of how Abaddon became the last surviving Night of Hell.

Available on AO3 here.

A/N: Look, I can still

Comments

[sagetan]

This is really fantastic. The language suits the story perfectly, and the steady build-up to Abaddon rising at last is great. I quite like your interpretation of night vs knight, hee :)

Is Lilith pride, and Abaddon envy?

[snickfic]

Is Lilith pride, and Abaddon envy?

Why, yes! Yes, that brilliant interpretation is exactly what I was going for. Obviously. *cough*

(No seriously, that is brilliant. Why didn't I think of that? But I am always ecstatic when people are to draw things out that I didn't intentionally put in.)

I am so glad you liked. Thank you for the lovely comment. :)

[ever_neutral]

Ooooooh, this is creepy and awesome. YAY for Abaddon fic (+ Lilith!)

[snickfic]

YAY for creepiness! I am glad you enjoyed it. <3

[stripytights]

Oh wow, I love the atmosphere you build here, and the mounting tension. Plus those last two lines are amazing.

[snickfic]

:DDDD

I am thrilled that you liked it! I so often have trouble with plot that it's always fun when I have a plotty ending in mind right from the get-go like this. :)

[liliaeth]

I liked it, but wasn't it Knight, instead of Night? English at times confuses me.

[snickfic]

Well, the two words are pronounced the same, and we never see the word written down in the episode, I don't think. I honestly thought 'Night' was what was meant until I saw some other people referring to Abaddon as a 'Knight of Hell.' But I kinda think a 'Night of Hell' is cooler - there's so much room for metaphor there.

Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the fic. :)

[scarletscarlet]

Oh, oooh. Love the idea of them as "nights", a physical and spiritual darkness. I don't apparently have anything useful to say, but just that it was so cool.

[snickfic]

:DDDDD

I legit thought that was the word we meant in the episode, and I was so impressed that SPN had introduced this word with so much metaphorical richness (especially considering we introduced the 'Men of Letters' in the same episode). And then I went to the internet, and found that apparently we meant her to be a Knight rather than a Night. Hence fic.

I am so tickled that you liked it! There's so much to be done with that interpretation, I think. Lucifer as Angel of Light, the seven Nights of Hell echoing the seven days of creation, etc. Symmetry everywhere!