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crack_van2009-10-19 09:41 am
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Today by Honorbound (PG)
Fandom: SHAKESPEARE -- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Pairing: Implied Antonio/Bassanio, even more implied Portia/Nerissa
Length: 720 words
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honorbound
Author Website: Unknown
Why this must be read: There are lots of fanfics floating around the internet that come with mentions of the author having been assigned to write them in school. It's a more believable excuse for fic in some fandoms than in others, and in the case of Shakespeare fics, it's very plausible. Today is a story written to fulfill a teacher's prompt, which Honorbound includes at the beginning of the story. The assignment was to consider how the various marriages made in The Merchant of Venice under more or less deceptive circumstances might play out over the next five to ten years. In response, Honorbound gives us a series of vignettes exploring the futures of Jessica, Nerissa, Portia, and Bassanio. Some of these characters have happy futures, and some do not. Some of them have the futures one might expect for them, and some do not. But whether happy or sad, expected or unexpected, each vignette is thoughtfully and sparingly written, showing the compromises the characters have had to make with their "happy ending" over the course of the years.
He had been there, and he had plied her with sweet words and promises of devotion. Nerissa had never had throngs of suitors, not as Portia had. Most of the men who had come to them had been seeking her mistress, not Nerissa herself. It was new; it was exciting. Gratiano had been dashing and he had wanted her.
Nerissa would admit, now that it was too late, that she had been a bit proud to have such a man in love with her. Her pride may have clouded her judgment.
Today
Pairing: Implied Antonio/Bassanio, even more implied Portia/Nerissa
Length: 720 words
Author on LJ:
honorboundAuthor Website: Unknown
Why this must be read: There are lots of fanfics floating around the internet that come with mentions of the author having been assigned to write them in school. It's a more believable excuse for fic in some fandoms than in others, and in the case of Shakespeare fics, it's very plausible. Today is a story written to fulfill a teacher's prompt, which Honorbound includes at the beginning of the story. The assignment was to consider how the various marriages made in The Merchant of Venice under more or less deceptive circumstances might play out over the next five to ten years. In response, Honorbound gives us a series of vignettes exploring the futures of Jessica, Nerissa, Portia, and Bassanio. Some of these characters have happy futures, and some do not. Some of them have the futures one might expect for them, and some do not. But whether happy or sad, expected or unexpected, each vignette is thoughtfully and sparingly written, showing the compromises the characters have had to make with their "happy ending" over the course of the years.
He had been there, and he had plied her with sweet words and promises of devotion. Nerissa had never had throngs of suitors, not as Portia had. Most of the men who had come to them had been seeking her mistress, not Nerissa herself. It was new; it was exciting. Gratiano had been dashing and he had wanted her.
Nerissa would admit, now that it was too late, that she had been a bit proud to have such a man in love with her. Her pride may have clouded her judgment.
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