Comments | burningqueen: [fic] What's Puzzling You Is The Nature Of My Game 6/?

burningqueen

[fic] What's Puzzling You Is The Nature Of My Game 6/?

Jul 29, 2010 16:04

Title: What's Puzzling You Is The Nature Of My Game, Part 6
Pairings: eventual Arthur/Merlin and background Lancelot/Gwen
Rating: PG-13 for now.
Word Count: ~3900 words this part.
Disclaimer: This version of Arthur, Merlin, et al belong to Shine and the BBC, not to me.
Summary: It's 1963, the Cold War is in full swing, and Arthur Pendragon, agent ( Read more... )

!public post, ship: lancelot/gwen, !fandom: merlin, ship: merlin/arthur, fandom: fanfiction, fanfiction: cold war au, sometimes i write stuff

Comments 30

ashoakandthorn July 29 2010, 20:23:01 UTC

Lovely as usual.

burningqueen July 29 2010, 21:03:00 UTC

Thank you!

archaeologist_d July 29 2010, 20:45:13 UTC

I remembered that movie - The Russians are coming. It was really cute.

Great job with all the hints of things that are going on beneath the surface with Merlin. I feel really bad for him.

burningqueen July 29 2010, 21:03:46 UTC

It's the movie that taught me about the Cold War, I couldn't neglect to allude to it. :D

Thank you!

bramble_rose July 29 2010, 22:25:49 UTC

*facepalm* I OWN a copy of that movie!!! My kids love it, and my Husband has a motivational poster at work with Jonathan Winters saying "We've just got to get Organized!

burningqueen July 29 2010, 23:37:30 UTC

hahaha I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH! That sounds like an awesome poster.

five_of_five July 29 2010, 22:37:48 UTC

I cannot get enough of this story! I usually don't read WIPs because I'm impatient and always fear that I'll get sucked in only to have it abandoned (which I understand because fanfiction writers have lives too and I'm guilty of wandering off mid-plot on a couple stories myself). But this is just so...I don't even have the words. The mix of these fantastic characters with that particular time period is just brilliant. I love how the prejudice against sorcery from the TV show is such a good fit for the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism witch hunts. And poor Merlin's got the double whammy of being both a sorcerer and a Soviet agent. But again like in the show he's a double agent, turning against the people he was born like to side with Arthur. He's stuck in the middle, fanatics on both sides trying to destroy each other and he's all alone until Arther, and with Merlin's help Arthur begins to see the common ground in people he was trained to see as less then human. I don't think that the Cold War ever would have occurred to me when watching ( ... )

shiny4love July 30 2010, 20:06:37 UTC

I love how the prejudice against sorcery from the TV show is such a good fit for the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism witch hunts. And poor Merlin's got the double whammy of being both a sorcerer and a Soviet agent. But again like in the show he's a double agent, turning against the people he was born like to side with Arthur.

Exactly couldn't have put it better. She has done a fantastic job of getting that across and is one of the best elements of this story.

Also feel the same way about wip's but was so intrigued and she just totally sucked me in. I find myself thinking about this damn story all the time :)

vivitchi July 29 2010, 23:22:58 UTC

HOLY MOTHER OF-- *FLAILS*

I AM TOO TIRED AND TOO HAPPY RIGHT NOW TO LEAVE A COHERENT COMMENT (NOT THAT I EVER DO, MIND YOU), SO I'M JUST GOING TO REITERATE MY USUAL BABBLE - GREAT PLOT, GREAT WRITING, GREAT CHARACTERISATION, SUCKED IN MASSIVELY AND CANNOT WAIT, AS USUAL, FOR THE NEXT ONE.

OMG I NEED TO GO TO BED NOW. THINKING OF THIS. NNNGH.

burningqueen July 30 2010, 16:12:20 UTC

flailing is good! I'm glad you're liking this.

orion1432 July 30 2010, 01:22:29 UTC

Poor Merlin! I always suspected Nimueh was evil, specially when she refused to give Merlin protection. I loved that scene in the lavatory, it was really touching to see Merlin breaking down and Arthur comforting him dispite his doubts.
I really hope you get some time to continue this story, this fic is the one I am looking forward the most!

burningqueen July 30 2010, 16:11:53 UTC

I was afraid I had given everything away just by naming her, so I'm glad that there seems to be even the slightest bit of surprise here, lol.

I WILL continue this story. At some point. There is no way this story is just going to founder in incompleteness, don't worry. I really am going to get the next bit up soonish, I'm just going to be very busy over the next week or so.