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The Arrangement by Maldoror [NC-17]
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macey_muse, I go by macey, and I'll be the one driving the giant flying robot this month~ welcome to Gundam Wing! There's a marvellous overview by ari_ here, for those of you who haven't encountered the fandom before, but I guarantee you, it is a combination of crack and epic that you won't want to miss.
This month, those will be my by-words - crack and epic. I love long, meaty fic with plot and character development, and have several seriously long fics lined up for you. I'll be sprinkling some shorter crack (and, yes, just plain porn) pieces between those leviathans, to keep your interest. We'll also take a bit of a glance at the oft-neglected girls of GW, and I won't be sticking to plain old Duo/Heero and Quatre/Trowa, either; there'll be plenty for everyone. I even have some het ^_~
Buckle up, folks, and I hope you'll enjoy the ride!
Fandom: GUNDAM WING
Pairing: Wufei/Heero
Length: About 270,000 words.
Author on LJ:maldoror_gw
Author Website: All her Gundam Wing fic can be found on raygunworks
Why this must be read:
I dithered a little about what to rec first, but then I thought to myself: why not jump in the deep end? As you can see from the wordcount, I wasn't kidding about the epic, and this fic is most definitely not a classic pairing.
There's just something about the way Maldoror writes. This was the first of her fics I ever read and, along with Freeport (those of you who enjoyed Freeport might be interested in knowing she's currently re-writing it, and posting to her journal), has remained on my all-time favourites list for rather a while. She doesn't pull her punches, doesn't ever let you forget that these boys were terrorists, and are still massively screwed in the head. This is a fic that burns like Wufei's concept of honour. If you read nothing else I rec this month, read this.
"This is killing you." Quatre's voice was carefully dispassionate, neither condemning nor pitying, and for that Wufei was thankful, though the words burned.
"Wrong, Winner, it's my failings that are killing me." His head sank back into the pillow.
"Wufei, you're not making sense," Quatre whispered, then added in a mutter: "I think you stopped making sense a while back."
"...will become stronger. I'll get over this. Don't need it. Won't break us apart. I can live-"
"Without tenderness? Affection? Understanding? Someone on your side instead of being some kind of perpetual...rival or something? Can you really live like that, for long? Can you even call that living?" Quatre struck like a true swordsman, a blade of unwanted words slicing into every aspect of Wufei's pain.
"I...he understands me...when we're in battle. We understand each other. We have an arrangement."
"God, Wufei..."
"I just need to be stronger. He does it. He doesn't need anything. Well, anything like that. But he does need me to work with him, watch his back. To be his partner. I'm the only one he trusts with that." Wufei smiled with tired pride. He had that. And it was everything that mattered. It was up to him to keep it. "I just need to be more like him, focus on -"
The Arrangement
macey_muse, I go by macey, and I'll be the one driving the giant flying robot this month~ welcome to Gundam Wing! There's a marvellous overview by ari_ here, for those of you who haven't encountered the fandom before, but I guarantee you, it is a combination of crack and epic that you won't want to miss.This month, those will be my by-words - crack and epic. I love long, meaty fic with plot and character development, and have several seriously long fics lined up for you. I'll be sprinkling some shorter crack (and, yes, just plain porn) pieces between those leviathans, to keep your interest. We'll also take a bit of a glance at the oft-neglected girls of GW, and I won't be sticking to plain old Duo/Heero and Quatre/Trowa, either; there'll be plenty for everyone. I even have some het ^_~
Buckle up, folks, and I hope you'll enjoy the ride!
Fandom: GUNDAM WING
Pairing: Wufei/Heero
Length: About 270,000 words.
Author on LJ:
maldoror_gwAuthor Website: All her Gundam Wing fic can be found on raygunworks
Why this must be read:
I dithered a little about what to rec first, but then I thought to myself: why not jump in the deep end? As you can see from the wordcount, I wasn't kidding about the epic, and this fic is most definitely not a classic pairing.
There's just something about the way Maldoror writes. This was the first of her fics I ever read and, along with Freeport (those of you who enjoyed Freeport might be interested in knowing she's currently re-writing it, and posting to her journal), has remained on my all-time favourites list for rather a while. She doesn't pull her punches, doesn't ever let you forget that these boys were terrorists, and are still massively screwed in the head. This is a fic that burns like Wufei's concept of honour. If you read nothing else I rec this month, read this.
"This is killing you." Quatre's voice was carefully dispassionate, neither condemning nor pitying, and for that Wufei was thankful, though the words burned.
"Wrong, Winner, it's my failings that are killing me." His head sank back into the pillow.
"Wufei, you're not making sense," Quatre whispered, then added in a mutter: "I think you stopped making sense a while back."
"...will become stronger. I'll get over this. Don't need it. Won't break us apart. I can live-"
"Without tenderness? Affection? Understanding? Someone on your side instead of being some kind of perpetual...rival or something? Can you really live like that, for long? Can you even call that living?" Quatre struck like a true swordsman, a blade of unwanted words slicing into every aspect of Wufei's pain.
"I...he understands me...when we're in battle. We understand each other. We have an arrangement."
"God, Wufei..."
"I just need to be stronger. He does it. He doesn't need anything. Well, anything like that. But he does need me to work with him, watch his back. To be his partner. I'm the only one he trusts with that." Wufei smiled with tired pride. He had that. And it was everything that mattered. It was up to him to keep it. "I just need to be more like him, focus on -"
The Arrangement
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I love this fic! Great story to rec.
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