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The Poet Said

Oct 29, 2011 10:19

Title: The Poet Said
Author: clodia_metelli
Rating: PG-13
Book/Source: Good Omens.
Characters: War, Wilfred Owen.
Summary: A tiny snippet. War is, well, war. No guts, no glory?.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything and I make no profit from this.
Word Count: 230

( This isn’t how it was meant to be )

char: war, fandom: good omens, fanfic, fic: the poet said

Comments 8

engarian October 29 2011, 10:38:16 UTC

I liked this small look at War, getting herself comfortable in her favored environment and how disquieting that can be from the other's viewpoint.

- Erulisse (one L)

clodia_metelli October 29 2011, 23:25:38 UTC

Thank you! It is a very small look at War, but she's best seen in smaller pieces, I think. I'm glad you liked it!

anna_wing October 30 2011, 01:23:06 UTC

Very sharp, I liked it. Can you imagine War talking to Frodo? I think that the other characters in LOTR would cope with her perfectly well (Eomer and Gimli would probably buy her a drink, Aragorn,Faramir and the Elves would be cool but civil, Gandalf would greet her as a respected but not-much-liked equal), but not Frodo.

clodia_metelli October 30 2011, 09:23:19 UTC

Thank you! I agree about Frodo, and would probably extend that to most of the other hobbits (Merry and Pippin perhaps excluded - though I don't think they'd be at all happy to see her).

wormwood_7 October 30 2011, 11:12:41 UTC

This is really exquisite and multi-layered. Applauds! War always preferred a good man, didn't she?

She sat in his chair and grinned at him with her fine old face in which all the pitiless years grinned too. *shivers down spine*

Funnily enough I read an article about Wilfred Owen only yesterday.
Thanks for sharing this :)

clodia_metelli October 30 2011, 14:41:58 UTC

Thank you! I confess I was mostly driven to it by watching Spooks and thinking, every single time, that if War grew old, she would grow old into Elena Gavrik. So there's the fine old face:

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werdrachin November 3 2011, 12:33:55 UTC

War - as old as mankind, but never going on pension (unlike Pestilence, who was retired by penicillin). A very pensive and deep snippet, for all its shortness. The Poet, who loved War - and got disenchanted meeting Reality...

clodia_metelli November 3 2011, 22:44:44 UTC

Thank you! That's precisely what I wanted here. I always like the disjunction between what you think you get and what you're actually getting with War.