Yuletide reveals
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luzulaHere is what I wrote:
An Undiscovered Country (3183 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Will Stanton, Bran Davies, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Coming of Age
Summary: After the victory of the Light, Will returned home. He was still a boy, and like a boy he went to school, was scolded by Barbara, fed the rabbits, quarrelled with James, teased Mary. With the part of his mind that was not a boy, he began to understand why he was the one who went alone: because he was not yet truly alone in the world, in the way that Merriman was.
Yuletide feels like magic to me, because I have never in all the years I've done it struggled to come up with an idea. Some idea has always taken form in my mind almost immediately. I am very grateful for this! I reread the Dark Is Rising series this summer and determined that I would offer it for Yuletide now that it was fresh in my mind (I've always read fic for it in Yuletides past). The recipient's prompt actually worked very well with what I wanted to do anyway. I thought it was interesting to write more immediate post-canon fic--most of what's out there is about the characters years after the ending. And I am quite happy with how it ended up!
ETA: Ack, I forgot to credit my betas! I am grateful toaria for canon beta-reading, and to feroxargentea for Brit-picking.
An Undiscovered Country (3183 words) by Luzula
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Will Stanton, Bran Davies, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Coming of Age
Summary: After the victory of the Light, Will returned home. He was still a boy, and like a boy he went to school, was scolded by Barbara, fed the rabbits, quarrelled with James, teased Mary. With the part of his mind that was not a boy, he began to understand why he was the one who went alone: because he was not yet truly alone in the world, in the way that Merriman was.
Yuletide feels like magic to me, because I have never in all the years I've done it struggled to come up with an idea. Some idea has always taken form in my mind almost immediately. I am very grateful for this! I reread the Dark Is Rising series this summer and determined that I would offer it for Yuletide now that it was fresh in my mind (I've always read fic for it in Yuletides past). The recipient's prompt actually worked very well with what I wanted to do anyway. I thought it was interesting to write more immediate post-canon fic--most of what's out there is about the characters years after the ending. And I am quite happy with how it ended up!
ETA: Ack, I forgot to credit my betas! I am grateful to
aria for canon beta-reading, and to feroxargentea for Brit-picking.
