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crack_van2009-04-06 07:51 am
harmonyangel.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2009-04-06 07:51 am
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st_aurafina (PG)
Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: None (Scott and Logan gen)
Length: 5,000 words
Author on LJ:st_aurafina
Author Website: St_Aurafina's LJ fic tag
Why this must be read:
st_aurafina always produces incredible work, but this story is, in my opinion, by far her best and most original piece. It's a ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
brains_in_a_jar fic, meaning that one character is an anthropomorphized ship of some sort and the other character is the pilot. You'd think that would lead to nothing but crackfic, but that's far from the case. Here, a young Scott Summers is an orphaned boy in the 1950s trying to find some small bit of happiness and excitement in his lonely life. And Logan is the gruff old WWII fighter jet he stumbles upon in a salvage yard beyond the orphanage. What follows is a boys' adventure story in the classic mold, full of adventure and character and emotion and rich, wonderful language. Despite the necessarily AU nature of the story, these characters are very much Scott and Logan; in fact, they're some of the best portrayals I've seen, and the nods to other bits of canon are an extra treat. If you're at all familiar with the characters, from the comics or from the movies, you'll love this fic.
An excerpt:
It was a week before he dared venture back to the salvage yard. For three days, Scott slunk around the corridors, waiting for the police or the Air Force or someone to show up at the door, but nothing happened, and he stopped ducking every time he heard the doorbell or the telephone. As panic receded, curiosity grew. He started to wonder if he'd really heard the disconnected voice coming from the console. Or maybe it was true, what the other boys had said, about the salvage yard being haunted. Maybe that was the ghost of the pilot of the Fightin' Wolverine? The lure of the unknown was too strong. When the next headache struck, he made his escape through the infirmary window and over to the salvage yard.
The Fightin' Wolverine was still shrouded with the patched tarpaulin, but something about the shoulders of the plane looked like it was crouching forward ready to pounce. Scott rolled the tarp back to the leading edge of the wings, and scrambled up to the cockpit. The bolts that locked the canopy were pulled back into their housing, so he inched the canopy back. The cockpit was silent; no static, no voices. There was an atmosphere of anticipation, and Scott felt the hair on his neck and arms prickling. Something was waiting.
Silver Lining in the Sky
Pairing: None (Scott and Logan gen)
Length: 5,000 words
Author on LJ:
st_aurafinaAuthor Website: St_Aurafina's LJ fic tag
Why this must be read:
st_aurafina always produces incredible work, but this story is, in my opinion, by far her best and most original piece. It's a brains_in_a_jar fic, meaning that one character is an anthropomorphized ship of some sort and the other character is the pilot. You'd think that would lead to nothing but crackfic, but that's far from the case. Here, a young Scott Summers is an orphaned boy in the 1950s trying to find some small bit of happiness and excitement in his lonely life. And Logan is the gruff old WWII fighter jet he stumbles upon in a salvage yard beyond the orphanage. What follows is a boys' adventure story in the classic mold, full of adventure and character and emotion and rich, wonderful language. Despite the necessarily AU nature of the story, these characters are very much Scott and Logan; in fact, they're some of the best portrayals I've seen, and the nods to other bits of canon are an extra treat. If you're at all familiar with the characters, from the comics or from the movies, you'll love this fic. An excerpt:
It was a week before he dared venture back to the salvage yard. For three days, Scott slunk around the corridors, waiting for the police or the Air Force or someone to show up at the door, but nothing happened, and he stopped ducking every time he heard the doorbell or the telephone. As panic receded, curiosity grew. He started to wonder if he'd really heard the disconnected voice coming from the console. Or maybe it was true, what the other boys had said, about the salvage yard being haunted. Maybe that was the ghost of the pilot of the Fightin' Wolverine? The lure of the unknown was too strong. When the next headache struck, he made his escape through the infirmary window and over to the salvage yard.
The Fightin' Wolverine was still shrouded with the patched tarpaulin, but something about the shoulders of the plane looked like it was crouching forward ready to pounce. Scott rolled the tarp back to the leading edge of the wings, and scrambled up to the cockpit. The bolts that locked the canopy were pulled back into their housing, so he inched the canopy back. The cockpit was silent; no static, no voices. There was an atmosphere of anticipation, and Scott felt the hair on his neck and arms prickling. Something was waiting.
Silver Lining in the Sky