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crack_van2004-05-15 06:16 pm
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Entry tags:
Floating World by Jane (PG-13)
Fandom: Star Wars Franchise
Author: Jane
Author website: JaneFic
Author on lj:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
3jane
Pairing: Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon
Rating: PG-13
Why this must be read:
I like reading fic which bears very little resemblence to its summary: Qui-Gon wanders off. Obi-Wan gets lonely. Qui-Gon comes back. Obi-Wan is mindful of the future. Yes, that's accurate but fails to get across the superb quality of the writing, the coolly painful flash-forward, the quiet angst of the present. Using Qui-Gon's absence as a device, Jane uses Obi-Wan to explore what familial bonds mean to the Jedi and how these are translated into comfort. It is impossible not to hurt for Obi-Wan, but it is a wordless pain.
A great deal of fiction in this particular pairing likes to forget the events in Phantom Menace, nevermind where Obi-Wan ends up (living on his own in the middle of a desert, possibly watching over young Luke Skywalker, with most of his friends dead). Jane's strength is that she not only acknowledges it, but in doing so, it makes her fiction
stronger and more believable. It's very rare that a piece of fanfiction has made me re-evaluate the original material but after reading this, I realised that I thought about the canon fates of both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon slightly differently.
This is the first in a loose series - all of which are well worth reading and a cut above most fanfiction (in any fandom) by the sheer beauty of the writing and the depths of understanding of both the characters and what motivates them both as humans and as Jedi.
Extract:
In the Temple, he slept in Qui-Gon's quarters, usually, tucked on the pallet across from his Master's bed. He had quarters of his own, but he'd never used them for anything more than storage. His whole experience of the Temple was sleeping in shared space. Privacy was infinitely less important to him than the contact between Jedi.
Floating World by Jane
Author: Jane
Author website: JaneFic
Author on lj:
3janePairing: Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon
Rating: PG-13
Why this must be read:
I like reading fic which bears very little resemblence to its summary: Qui-Gon wanders off. Obi-Wan gets lonely. Qui-Gon comes back. Obi-Wan is mindful of the future. Yes, that's accurate but fails to get across the superb quality of the writing, the coolly painful flash-forward, the quiet angst of the present. Using Qui-Gon's absence as a device, Jane uses Obi-Wan to explore what familial bonds mean to the Jedi and how these are translated into comfort. It is impossible not to hurt for Obi-Wan, but it is a wordless pain.
A great deal of fiction in this particular pairing likes to forget the events in Phantom Menace, nevermind where Obi-Wan ends up (living on his own in the middle of a desert, possibly watching over young Luke Skywalker, with most of his friends dead). Jane's strength is that she not only acknowledges it, but in doing so, it makes her fiction
stronger and more believable. It's very rare that a piece of fanfiction has made me re-evaluate the original material but after reading this, I realised that I thought about the canon fates of both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon slightly differently.
This is the first in a loose series - all of which are well worth reading and a cut above most fanfiction (in any fandom) by the sheer beauty of the writing and the depths of understanding of both the characters and what motivates them both as humans and as Jedi.
Extract:
In the Temple, he slept in Qui-Gon's quarters, usually, tucked on the pallet across from his Master's bed. He had quarters of his own, but he'd never used them for anything more than storage. His whole experience of the Temple was sleeping in shared space. Privacy was infinitely less important to him than the contact between Jedi.
Floating World by Jane