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Alpha And Omega by Acid [light R]
Fandom: Xena Warrior Princess
Pairing: Gabrielle/Xena
Length: 3,404 words
Author On LJ: n/a
Author Website: http://www.academyofbards.org/fanfic/a/acidburn
Why This Must Be Read:
One of the earliest XWP stories I ever read and it convinced me that fanfic could be art.
The language is what sells this story, which is an AU based on the episode 'The Reckoning'.
The words are crisp and sharp and descriptive, like nothing I've read before or since.
It is, all at the same time, poetic and realistic.
And I love that is is from Gabrielle's point-of-view, where you can witness her own transformation in the early years of travel in the same moment that Xena is transformed before Gabrielle's eyes.
Just simply gorgeous.
"Her hands are large and square, a sailor's hands, with broken off fingernails and surprisingly nimble fingers. Hands that are hard with the calluses of daggers and swords, and that can snatch a flying arrow by its shaft out of mid-air. A woman shouldn't have such rough, coarse hands or such muscled forearms, like a stablehand or a smith. Gabrielle tries Xena's brace on one day and it slips off her arm like a man's ring would have slipped off her finger. It's large enough to fit around Gabrielle's neck, if she only had the strength to open the copper rings wide enough. But then again, Gabrielle always was a skinny little runt: nothing special. Back home Gabrielle's little sister Lila was the pretty one, and the lucky one: she got married last spring. Gabrielle sometimes wished she was married too, but Perdicus had never returned from Troy and she didn't have any other suitors. Ever since Perdicus left to fight the war she always was too strange, too mouthy, too thin, or too short for the rest of Potidaea."
Alpha And Omega by Acid
Pairing: Gabrielle/Xena
Length: 3,404 words
Author On LJ: n/a
Author Website: http://www.academyofbards.org/fanfic/a/acidburn
Why This Must Be Read:
One of the earliest XWP stories I ever read and it convinced me that fanfic could be art.
The language is what sells this story, which is an AU based on the episode 'The Reckoning'.
The words are crisp and sharp and descriptive, like nothing I've read before or since.
It is, all at the same time, poetic and realistic.
And I love that is is from Gabrielle's point-of-view, where you can witness her own transformation in the early years of travel in the same moment that Xena is transformed before Gabrielle's eyes.
Just simply gorgeous.
"Her hands are large and square, a sailor's hands, with broken off fingernails and surprisingly nimble fingers. Hands that are hard with the calluses of daggers and swords, and that can snatch a flying arrow by its shaft out of mid-air. A woman shouldn't have such rough, coarse hands or such muscled forearms, like a stablehand or a smith. Gabrielle tries Xena's brace on one day and it slips off her arm like a man's ring would have slipped off her finger. It's large enough to fit around Gabrielle's neck, if she only had the strength to open the copper rings wide enough. But then again, Gabrielle always was a skinny little runt: nothing special. Back home Gabrielle's little sister Lila was the pretty one, and the lucky one: she got married last spring. Gabrielle sometimes wished she was married too, but Perdicus had never returned from Troy and she didn't have any other suitors. Ever since Perdicus left to fight the war she always was too strange, too mouthy, too thin, or too short for the rest of Potidaea."
Alpha And Omega by Acid