Alara Rogers ([identity profile] alara-r.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-03-30 11:51 pm
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"Ashes in the Wind" by Chris Delaney (R for violence)

Fandom: X-Men Comicverse
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: None, but various stories available on my Magneto site, Alara's Happy-Happy Text-Only Magneto Site

Why this must be read: A dark action/drama that borders on a horror story, this story features mutants who would ordinarily be in violent conflict with each other banding together to try to fight off the Shadow King, who holds various of their friends in his telepathic thrall. Scarily intense, this story doesn't make the mistake of most "enemies work together" fics and make everyone play nice together; several times the allies nearly kill each other. This is a very early X-Men fanfic from the beginning of the fandom, and has some rough edges, as most of the stories from those days did, but it is still powerful and moving.

Ashes in the Wind