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crack_van2004-01-26 05:41 pm
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Bonds of Choice by HiperBunny (NC-17)
Fandom: STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE
Pairing: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan (and quite a few others along the way, if I remember correctly)
Author Website: Chez Bunny
Why this must be read:
Bonds of Choice deserves to be recced just for being the only fanfic story I've ever heard of with an original character who became so popular he got his own mailing list, but there is a lot more to this fic than that.
The much-loved character of Kourt Crowe is the key to what makes Bonds of Choice remarkable, though. The leader of a sort of Jedi black-ops team, who turn out to be much more than that, he represents a view of the Force as far more complex than what we generally meet in both canon and fanfic, a rejection of the simple separation of the world into Dark and Light that the Star Wars universe is normally all about. HiperBunny's story insists on shades of grey, on the possibility of dark actions being done in the service of light without leading to corruption, and this makes this fic more interesting than most.
The main plot, though, is the Qui/Obi love story, a tale about the seemingly insoluble problem of how to give yourself in love to another person without losing your freedom and your separate identity. There is sex and angst, philosophical discussions and fist fights, while Obi-Wan struggles with finding a way to live with himself and his feelings for his master, and in its very complexity, I think the relationship rings very true. Real love isn't easy, and this story doesn't try to gloss that over.
Bonds of Choice is a huge story full of original characters, in many ways different from most TPM fic, and nothing I say here can cover the scope of it, so you should just go read it for yourselves. It's one of those stories you really shouldn't miss.
Bonds of Choice
Pairing: Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan (and quite a few others along the way, if I remember correctly)
Author Website: Chez Bunny
Why this must be read:
Bonds of Choice deserves to be recced just for being the only fanfic story I've ever heard of with an original character who became so popular he got his own mailing list, but there is a lot more to this fic than that.
The much-loved character of Kourt Crowe is the key to what makes Bonds of Choice remarkable, though. The leader of a sort of Jedi black-ops team, who turn out to be much more than that, he represents a view of the Force as far more complex than what we generally meet in both canon and fanfic, a rejection of the simple separation of the world into Dark and Light that the Star Wars universe is normally all about. HiperBunny's story insists on shades of grey, on the possibility of dark actions being done in the service of light without leading to corruption, and this makes this fic more interesting than most.
The main plot, though, is the Qui/Obi love story, a tale about the seemingly insoluble problem of how to give yourself in love to another person without losing your freedom and your separate identity. There is sex and angst, philosophical discussions and fist fights, while Obi-Wan struggles with finding a way to live with himself and his feelings for his master, and in its very complexity, I think the relationship rings very true. Real love isn't easy, and this story doesn't try to gloss that over.
Bonds of Choice is a huge story full of original characters, in many ways different from most TPM fic, and nothing I say here can cover the scope of it, so you should just go read it for yourselves. It's one of those stories you really shouldn't miss.
Bonds of Choice