Fic: Dust Claimed Him
Title: Dust claimed him
Rating: K+
Word count: 2980
Characters/Pairings: Guy, Marian, Guy/Marian
Summary: "She only sees how the man gradually fading before her will become part of it all. And as the last remnants of his life linger at the tips of her fingers, she knows there is nothing she can do about it."
Warnings: Character death. Spoilers for S2 ( Read more... )
Rating: K+
Word count: 2980
Characters/Pairings: Guy, Marian, Guy/Marian
Summary: "She only sees how the man gradually fading before her will become part of it all. And as the last remnants of his life linger at the tips of her fingers, she knows there is nothing she can do about it."
Warnings: Character death. Spoilers for S2 ( Read more... )
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Even though I don't mean ill for Marian, I wanted to write something where she finally realises how very much that man loves her, and that this realisation then continues to haunt her when it's too late.
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It brought a couple of treacherous tears to my eyes.
Lovely. I'll save it and add it to my Guy fic collection.
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I think for many this was the expected outcome for the S2 finale, though if it had to happen this way, I'd preferably have it so at the end of the show. A season without Guy would have been unbearable (not that Marian wasn't sorely missed).
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There was no RH without Guy for me so I agree with you. In any case, if it hadn't been for the fact we would have been deprived of Richard for a year, I'd have finished the show at the end of Series 2 with something like this because I know a happy ending for Guy wasn't in the cards.
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And you're right, Guy is such a very tragic character, which is probably why I didn't mind his death at the end of S3 very much. When someone as jovial as Allan meets an early end then it's another case though.
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I had a hard time deciding what I should put in the conversation at the end, and I thought it would be better that with Guy's death all the lies and betrayals were put to an end.
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Beautiful writing, and I think that you handled it just right, with Guy's "protect Marian" instinct kicking in.
And I'm with you, I would have been ... okay-ish ... with such an ending as the finale for the whole series, not Season 2. A season without Guy ... nooooooooooooo! *brain implodes* I actually do like the two Guy-less eps of S3, but a whole season .... noooooo!
I hadn't thought of the "Marian haunted by Guy's death" role reversal. Neat. It also occurred to me, after several re-reads, that Guy's "It never would have been me, would it?" kind of echoes his "She was always yours" in canon.
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I too enjoyed the Guy-less eps, though there still was this distinct feeling of something missing. I don't think anything could have filled the hole Guy would have left if he died earlier.
Before I started on the fic I had actually thought of showing glimpses of Marian's life later on, and then explore how Guy's death still haunts her. But I eventually decided against it the rest of the fic sticks very much to one time period. I might an accompanying piece later on (I should stop saying such things and actually get them done).
I hadn't thought of the similarity of those words. Interesting.
And thanks for the comment!
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Wanted to say that I eventually decided against it because the rest of the fic sticks to one time period.
Also I might 'do' an accompanying piece later on.
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