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Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge) by bessemerprocess (PG)
Fandom: BABYLON 5
Pairing: gen, Susan Ivanova
Length: 2500 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bessemerprocess
Author Website: bessemerprocess at An Archive Of Our Own |turingtest
Why this must be read:
The life and death of Susan Ivanova, Anla-shok Na. This meditative post-canon fic gives us a Susan who is at peace with herself and the ghosts of her past, and who approaches her life on Minbar with the Rangers with the same steady strength and competence she’s given every other endeavour in her life, though with perhaps less yelling than in her youth. A small but well-chosen cast of OCs brings the future Rangers to life with a few strokes of the pen.
There can never be enough post-season 4 Ivanova fic, in my view, and I love this one because Susan deserves happiness and friendship and the chance to shine on her own (not just in Jeff or John’s shadow). She gets to discuss faith and destiny with Delenn, too, which is always a plus.
(Note: I beta-read this fic, long before I was in the fandom. I enjoyed it at the time, but it makes ever so much more sense if you actually know who Susan Ivanova is!)
Excerpt:
Minbar is supposed to be a fresh start, but it's almost like going back in time. Retracing her own steps. Even the uniform feels familiar. Feels right, in a way the Earthforce uniform never had the second time around. [...]
Delenn, at least, is the only one who ever calls her Entil'Zha. "For you truly will make the future, and not ride on the currents of destiny as all the rest of us do." To the rest she is simply Anla-Shok Na. As Zathras would've said, "Not the One." She is remarkably okay with that.
She doesn't want to be remembered as anything other than a good soldier. It is enough that her Rangers have faith in her. No one else need remember her at all.
Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge)
ETA: Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge) Podfic by tinypinkmouse
Pairing: gen, Susan Ivanova
Length: 2500 words
Author on LJ:
bessemerprocessAuthor Website: bessemerprocess at An Archive Of Our Own |
turingtestWhy this must be read:
The life and death of Susan Ivanova, Anla-shok Na. This meditative post-canon fic gives us a Susan who is at peace with herself and the ghosts of her past, and who approaches her life on Minbar with the Rangers with the same steady strength and competence she’s given every other endeavour in her life, though with perhaps less yelling than in her youth. A small but well-chosen cast of OCs brings the future Rangers to life with a few strokes of the pen.
There can never be enough post-season 4 Ivanova fic, in my view, and I love this one because Susan deserves happiness and friendship and the chance to shine on her own (not just in Jeff or John’s shadow). She gets to discuss faith and destiny with Delenn, too, which is always a plus.
(Note: I beta-read this fic, long before I was in the fandom. I enjoyed it at the time, but it makes ever so much more sense if you actually know who Susan Ivanova is!)
Excerpt:
Minbar is supposed to be a fresh start, but it's almost like going back in time. Retracing her own steps. Even the uniform feels familiar. Feels right, in a way the Earthforce uniform never had the second time around. [...]
Delenn, at least, is the only one who ever calls her Entil'Zha. "For you truly will make the future, and not ride on the currents of destiny as all the rest of us do." To the rest she is simply Anla-Shok Na. As Zathras would've said, "Not the One." She is remarkably okay with that.
She doesn't want to be remembered as anything other than a good soldier. It is enough that her Rangers have faith in her. No one else need remember her at all.
Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge)
ETA: Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge) Podfic by tinypinkmouse