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crack_van2012-02-29 01:14 am
Every Marine A Wolfbrother Series by Dira Sudis (NC-17)
Pairing: Nate Fick/Brad Colbert, Brad Colbert/Ray Person, Ray Person/OMCs
Length: 46720
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dsudis, AO3, WordsWordsWordsWhy this fic must be read:
Some AUs create a world for a story; some AUs create a series; some AUs create and inspire and pull people into new fandoms and gain a life of their own. This AU has done that. It has inspired fanfic of its own, and helped create the Lupercalia Fic Fest. This is, quite unashamedly, my favourite GK AU.
Whilst technically a fusion with A Companion to Wolves (by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette), this AU has extended the concept to its fullest extent, and you don't need to know the book to read this series. In this universe, warriors are telepathically soul-bonded to psychic wolves, so the understanding of warriors, war and the military is very, very different. The Marines are particularly proud of their heritage, with 'Every Marine A Wolfbrother'. This is worldbuilding at its finest, with even the most insignificant details making perfect sense, and everything well-thought-out and having total internal consistency.
The writing is of a similar quality. The characterisation is stellar - not only in the dialogue and actions, but in the thoughts and interactions in the pack-sense. All of the OCs - by which I mean the wolves, largely - are beautifully formed and make perfect sense with their brothers. What other wolf would name her cub Corona with lime than Ray's? The description is excellent, and you can see the scenes so clearly in your head. The lyricality of it is beautiful, not only in the good parts (yes, the sex is absolutely scorching), but in the painful and difficult parts.
It's beautifully put together, and every piece (there are four currently; there are to be more) is well worth reading more than once. I had so much trouble picking an excerpt, so here's the first part of the first fic.
"Maybe your little bitch asshole, Ray, from all the cock that's been stuffed up it."
Evan felt himself brace involuntarily, as though Brad's casually-spoken comeback had been a yell of Incoming or Fire in the hole or whatever it was going to turn out these guys actually yelled when a bomb was about to go off. All of the Marines Evan had met swapped breeding-related insults all the time, but demographics being what they were, this was the first one Evan had heard leveled at a Marine who actually was brother to a bitch.
Ray gave a toothy grin, and Navi stuck her head up over Ray's knee to give an even more self-satisfied version of the same expression, accompanied by a growl that was almost a groan.
"Fuck yeah, that burns for a few days," Ray said, in a boasting tone, as if Brad hadn't insulted him at all--completely the reverse. "Takes a real man to take it up the ass."
Ray bumped his fist gently against Navi's muzzle. She licked his knuckles and then disappeared back down into the armored box under Ray's seat.
"But Navi's strictly a once-a-year kind of girl, so I've got seven or eight more months of pain-free shitting to look forward to. And even when our once-a-year comes up again," Ray went on, turning in his seat to speak directly to Evan, who was gradually realizing that this, like everything else so far, was just an exercise, "Brad's totally out of fucking luck. No breeding in the same company, unless you're--"
"Ray," Brad snapped.
Frost, who was perpetually half out of his box, didn't bother lifting his head from Brad's thigh as he bared his teeth and issued a sincerely menacing growl. Evan had instinctively backed away the first dozen times he'd heard it, but he was starting to gain some confidence that Frost wouldn't actually tear out his throat or anyone else's outside of combat. No matter how easy it would be for him.
Apparently undeterred by either Brad or Frost, Ray rattled on. "Unless you're not in the same company anymore, Jesus, I'm just saying. If I get out and the Corps decides they need another ten litters of little Navis, then I'm getting fucked like clockwork once a year for the next ten years, but, bonus, we can request that Navi's babydaddy is a wolf from our former unit, so Brad can finally get a piece of my fine ass while Frost and Navi make little Navi-Frosts, and nobody has to worry about Team One turning into a crazy feral wolf pack, because me and my sister are chillin' back home while she cooks up the pups."
For a moment, Evan was choking on all the different questions he wanted to ask, now that it was so obviously all right to ask. He stole a glance at Frost while he was still trying to choose one, and found the wolf staring unnervingly directly at him. He flicked a glance toward Brad, but Brad was staring expressionlessly out the window. No help.
Every Marine A Wolfbrother Series
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Thanks; I'll check it out! ;]
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