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Strength to Carry On by Abyssinia4077 (PG)
Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Gen, Liebgott and Malarkey
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abyssinia4077
Author Website: Compilation of links to her fic on LJ
Why this must be read: The 2004 Berlin by Christmas holiday fic exchange produced a mini avalanche of new fic (of which you'll be seeing more later this month), including a number of fantastic character studies. This is one of my absolute favorites. (Yes, I did the beta. Yes, I would be reccing it even if I hadn't.) It's listed as Malarkey/Liebgott on the official web site, but really it distinguishes itself as a thoughtful, smart, and very moving gen story about the losses, both bodily and spiritual, that the men of Easy suffer during the war. But what gets to me most viscerally about this piece is how it personalizes those losses not only through Malarkey--one of the most obvious symbols of lost innocence we see in the series--but through Liebgott, whose journey is a little more complicated, a little more ambiguous, and a little more dangerous. Of all the myriad stories that Band of Brothers suggests to us, his is one of the hardest to articulate on the page, but Abyssinia4077 does him proud here.
You hear footsteps on the stairs and look up to see Joe, still a bit disoriented by whichever dream woke him, hair disheveled enough to betray how well he didn’t sleep. Joe Liebgott is haunted by ghosts of his own, but unlike yours, who are few and personal, his ghosts are a great multitude of strangers.
Strength to Carry On
Pairing: Gen, Liebgott and Malarkey
Author on LJ:
abyssinia4077Author Website: Compilation of links to her fic on LJ
Why this must be read: The 2004 Berlin by Christmas holiday fic exchange produced a mini avalanche of new fic (of which you'll be seeing more later this month), including a number of fantastic character studies. This is one of my absolute favorites. (Yes, I did the beta. Yes, I would be reccing it even if I hadn't.) It's listed as Malarkey/Liebgott on the official web site, but really it distinguishes itself as a thoughtful, smart, and very moving gen story about the losses, both bodily and spiritual, that the men of Easy suffer during the war. But what gets to me most viscerally about this piece is how it personalizes those losses not only through Malarkey--one of the most obvious symbols of lost innocence we see in the series--but through Liebgott, whose journey is a little more complicated, a little more ambiguous, and a little more dangerous. Of all the myriad stories that Band of Brothers suggests to us, his is one of the hardest to articulate on the page, but Abyssinia4077 does him proud here.
You hear footsteps on the stairs and look up to see Joe, still a bit disoriented by whichever dream woke him, hair disheveled enough to betray how well he didn’t sleep. Joe Liebgott is haunted by ghosts of his own, but unlike yours, who are few and personal, his ghosts are a great multitude of strangers.
Strength to Carry On