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Devil's Diary by DarkMark (PG)
Fandom: X-MEN COMICVERSE
Pairing: None
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darkmark
Author Website: DarkMark's Domain
Why this must be read:
Magneto is one of my favourite X-Men characters, and I had a hard time choosing a story about him, but I think this is one of the best takes on the character in any universe.
In the comics themselves Magneto has something of a checkered history. Introduced in the sixties as a typical mad villain with a desire to conquor the world, he was given a far more intersting and sympathetic treatment by a later writer who created his Holocaust survivor background. This leaves fanfiction writers with an awkward period of history where Magneto's behaviour doesn't seem to fit in with what later turned out to be his history (and it wouldn't be the last one, either.) Most prefer to write off the earliest comics with 'well, he was nuts back then' rather than deal with them.
DarkMark, on the other hand, manages to synthesise Stan Lee's version of Magneto with the background Chris Claremont gave us later, to fascinating and disturbing effect with many shades of grey. The Erik Lensherr we see here is sliding into insanity, but it's a maddness that emmerges perfectly out of what he's suffered.
Devil's Diary
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:
darkmarkAuthor Website: DarkMark's Domain
Why this must be read:
Magneto is one of my favourite X-Men characters, and I had a hard time choosing a story about him, but I think this is one of the best takes on the character in any universe.
In the comics themselves Magneto has something of a checkered history. Introduced in the sixties as a typical mad villain with a desire to conquor the world, he was given a far more intersting and sympathetic treatment by a later writer who created his Holocaust survivor background. This leaves fanfiction writers with an awkward period of history where Magneto's behaviour doesn't seem to fit in with what later turned out to be his history (and it wouldn't be the last one, either.) Most prefer to write off the earliest comics with 'well, he was nuts back then' rather than deal with them.
DarkMark, on the other hand, manages to synthesise Stan Lee's version of Magneto with the background Chris Claremont gave us later, to fascinating and disturbing effect with many shades of grey. The Erik Lensherr we see here is sliding into insanity, but it's a maddness that emmerges perfectly out of what he's suffered.
Devil's Diary