Fic: Snapshots of a Life Unlived (Fringe)

[ziparumpazoo]

Title: Snapshots of a Life Unlived
Category: Gen, episode tag
Rating: PG
Summary:Olivia comes back from the Other Side, but sorting through the debris is not exactly simple.
Word count:~1190
A/N: Damn you Fringe for giving me the two things I love best in sci-fi - characters with depth and fully fleshed out alternate universes. I need another fandom

Comments

[annerbhp]

Very nice piece. I love how resilient and practical she's being on the surface, and yet the little ripples of confusion built in that she tries to ignore. Just like everyone else ignored.

Man, I do love this show, even if I need another USTy never going to get together OTP like a need a hole in the head.

The last two lines here are killer. Love them.

[ziparumpazoo]

Really, there can never be enough slow burning USTy OTPs. Never. ;)

Thanks so much. Olivia is so good as sublimating whatever is going on, or at least trying to look like things don't bother her, but inside, she's that well-organized chaos that makes up her character. There's no way that those implanted memories just disappear because she remembers who she really is.

[holdouttrout]

I LOVE the idea that she's still sorting through her memories, and that it's not easy to pick out which is which--that she's so close to the Other Olivia that the memories don't automatically feel completely wrong.

[ziparumpazoo]

Thanks. The big memories, like events and people, things she has context for are probably easier to sort out, but those little things... it kind of struck me when Olivia was wearing a lot more makeup in Marionette than she usually wears, then what else is not completely her anymore?

[gaialy]

Very nice, her confusion of what is hers and what is not...brilliant

[ziparumpazoo]

Thanks so much. :)

[sarbear12456]

It's beautiful. All the confusion of which memories are mine and trying to deal with that is great. It's realistic, not melodramatic post-Marionette which is becoming its own genre. One I write in often :).

[ziparumpazoo]

Thanks. Marionette was such a game-changer - all those feelings out in the open that it couldn't help but spawn its own genre.

[kimbari]

Excellent. I, for one, thought those memories gone once she realized who she was. Thanks for taking me out the box. :)

[ziparumpazoo]

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out once the show is back, that's for sure. She lived as the other Olivia for long enough that I figure some habits might stick.
Thanks for coming along for the ride. :)