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The Wind at Midnight by Icarus Chained (PG-13)
My last recommendation for the month! Thanks so much for coming along with me, I had a lot of fun!
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Clark/Bruce, with appearances by Arthur, Dick, Lois, Lex, Barbara, Cass, Tim, and other DC characters.
Length: Fourteen chapters, about 54,000 words total
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
icarus_chained
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Three major reasons why I'm thrilled to recommend this story--I saved it for last because I'm just so darn happy to have a chance to tell people about it:
1. If you like Steampunk and world-building. Icarus creates a steampunk-influenced world in which the major DC cities are flying cities. Metropolis and Gotham are characters in their own right here, beautiful and majestic and beloved. She also captures the tone of steampunk--the brass and gears and mahogany and glass--with beautiful delicacy.
2. The supporting characters. Clark and Bruce are the main characters, but if you love any of the characters listed above you'll love this story. Lois is brilliant and awesome and fierce, Dick and Tim and Cass glorious, and Lex a titanic force, flawed and grand.
3. The plot. Icarus tells a crackling story, filled with gigantic battles and action sequences--the visuals she calls up are much like a Hayao Miyazaki movie, full of swooping motion and intensity. In terms of sheer storytelling it's an awesome ride.
Gotham was a new City, the Black Lady. Or rather, a very old city that no-one had seen for nigh on twenty years, after she had disappeared during the Great Upheaval, and never been seen again. Then, some three years ago, she'd come back. Not that people had known her for who she was, at first. It had been rumours. The dark City haunting the Nightside, chasing midnight across the dunes of Earth, following the paths of the stars over the waves. The Midnight Wind, crewed by the damned. And then some poor bastard on a cargosailer off the London flightpath had run into her in the dimness, all ablaze with gaslight stars, her seeker spots great white beams of light prowling over the European dystopia, and at her heart, the unmistakable gothic outline of an ediface from the planet's past. Wayne Tower, flying the black emblem of the Bat.
Gotham had come home, from Hell or Hades or wherever she'd been. And now she ruled the Nightside, even as Metropolis held sway over the daylight paths. And sooner or later, they'd had to meet. The Black Lady and the Shining City.
Chapter One of "The Wind at Midnight"
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Clark/Bruce, with appearances by Arthur, Dick, Lois, Lex, Barbara, Cass, Tim, and other DC characters.
Length: Fourteen chapters, about 54,000 words total
Author on LJ:
icarus_chainedAuthor Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Three major reasons why I'm thrilled to recommend this story--I saved it for last because I'm just so darn happy to have a chance to tell people about it:
1. If you like Steampunk and world-building. Icarus creates a steampunk-influenced world in which the major DC cities are flying cities. Metropolis and Gotham are characters in their own right here, beautiful and majestic and beloved. She also captures the tone of steampunk--the brass and gears and mahogany and glass--with beautiful delicacy.
2. The supporting characters. Clark and Bruce are the main characters, but if you love any of the characters listed above you'll love this story. Lois is brilliant and awesome and fierce, Dick and Tim and Cass glorious, and Lex a titanic force, flawed and grand.
3. The plot. Icarus tells a crackling story, filled with gigantic battles and action sequences--the visuals she calls up are much like a Hayao Miyazaki movie, full of swooping motion and intensity. In terms of sheer storytelling it's an awesome ride.
Gotham was a new City, the Black Lady. Or rather, a very old city that no-one had seen for nigh on twenty years, after she had disappeared during the Great Upheaval, and never been seen again. Then, some three years ago, she'd come back. Not that people had known her for who she was, at first. It had been rumours. The dark City haunting the Nightside, chasing midnight across the dunes of Earth, following the paths of the stars over the waves. The Midnight Wind, crewed by the damned. And then some poor bastard on a cargosailer off the London flightpath had run into her in the dimness, all ablaze with gaslight stars, her seeker spots great white beams of light prowling over the European dystopia, and at her heart, the unmistakable gothic outline of an ediface from the planet's past. Wayne Tower, flying the black emblem of the Bat.
Gotham had come home, from Hell or Hades or wherever she'd been. And now she ruled the Nightside, even as Metropolis held sway over the daylight paths. And sooner or later, they'd had to meet. The Black Lady and the Shining City.
Chapter One of "The Wind at Midnight"