Fic: Not Even Slightly Dickensian (2)

[little_giddy]

Fic: Not Even Slightly Dickensian [2/?]
Chapter: because we are both idiots, I will be your lying liar for today
Rating: teen, light R, thus far mainly for adult themes and use of bad language
Spoilers: none, completely AU.
Word count: ~4700 (this chapter)
Summary: Merlin/Arthur, Morgana/Gwen. 19th century AU in which Camelot is on the edge of

Comments

[gnimaerd]

I can't remember whether I commented on the last chapter but I do have to say that I LOVE this. (Particularly the huge amount of pwnage afforded to Morgana. ^_^) I love your characterisation and how you keep all the characters intact whilst having completely redesigned their enviroment. Great stuff.

[little_giddy]

Hee, I think you did- I had a moment when you did, I admit, because I recognised you off of telynmurali's flist and from the Robin Hood comm *blush*. Thank you very much (hee, she's totally to blame for this. The very first scene came into my head and she demanded that I build context for it. Also, one of my best friends totally loves her, so I thought I would give her an AU).

[cometotheedge]

Yay more AU goodness!

For some reason, the blond thought that this was the most amusing thing in the history of amusing things, Camelot and quite possibly the human race. Merlin cast an exasperated glance at the sky and glared. He did not put his hands on his hips like a Lower City washing woman, but he was sorely tempted.

Oh lord, I can picture that exactly. Also, Arthur and Lancelot at Oxbridge: I'm going to have to demand that they committed sensitive crimes in punts.

[little_giddy]

Hee, thanks!

Someday, I am going to write a story and manage to surprise you. I now consider it a personal challenge. Or maybe I'll just make us tea in the same gutter that our heads seem to frequent *G* There will Lancelot in later chapters, oh yes.

[cometotheedge]

Someday, I am going to write a story and manage to surprise you.

Muahahahaha. Great and/or Gutter!minds think alike XD

[d_o_y]

you wrote more and Morgana is wonderful and squeee * grins and grins* i can't wait for more will Merlin have magic its so wonderfully dramatic :P

[little_giddy]

Hee, thank you very much! I promise to keep writing! :D

[eruminator]

OH EM GEE! Yay, second chapter! Can't even begin to tell you how often I've stalked innocently visited your journal to see this updated. (And then massive PHAIL in that Christmas and a Christmas!wedding happened and the internetzes lost.) Ahem, on topic now...

I love the slow build to the big Merlin!Caper reveal. Just what's so important about the bloody!book? Is it Merlin's magic book? Does it have a treasure map in invisible ink written inside the inner cover? Is it the Joye of Industrial Sexxxe? Inquiring minds are dying to find out.

Again, I'm also loving the characterisations. Morgana's especially. Such a person might be insufferable in real life, but she reads very very well. Also, bonus Seer powers! Hooray! I was not expecting that, but I was hoping, as fantasy (sort-of-steampunk--but not in an anime way) beginning Industrial Age AUs are a genre I particularly love. Martha Wells, some of Barbara Hambly and even bloody Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also, her dialogue and inner monologue are both deliciously

[little_giddy]

Dude, your comment. It made my day like fresh pancakes. And blueberries. I'm still trying to summon an appropriate answer. Hee, stalk away. I don't mind.

the bloody!book

HEE! You'll just have to wait and find out. *GRIN*

Thank you so much. Morgana is owning me on this one. She's picked up this AU, turned it around, narrowed her eyes at it and then said 'mine' in a tone that I know better than to resist.

OMG, you poor damsel! I must aid you in your swooning!

Ah, the continuity thing in chapter one. I might have bring that out a bit more because I think I was a bit obscure in the sequence of events: Arthur and Co. were called out to Sophia's brothel but went into Morgana and Merlin's flat by mistake; Morgana saw that they would and that they would meet/arrest Merlin (shh, I'm not putting this in until a later chapter but: Merlin would have gotten arrested thanks to his overly smart mouth and the fact that the knights were watching Arthur at the time - he only gets away with his pure insubordinance in the market scene because it'

[eruminator]

Ah, the continuity thing in chapter one. I might have bring that out a bit more because I think I was a bit obscure in the sequence of events...

Oh, I see. They didn't come specifically to arrest Merlin, it would have been just mouthing off to the heir apparent if Merlin had been in at the time. I had thought they knew of Merlin's activities... particularly since Arthur pegged him for a pickpocket in the Market Square scene. I thought Arthur was stalking him... only it turns out Arthur was just enjoying the market air, was drawn to Merlin... in a purely heterosexual way, of course. Must've been the ears... honestly they're like billboards sometimes.

an image of little!Merlin as Gavroche

Isn't it just an absolutely delicious mental picture? Tattered clothes, engagelingly gap-toothed grin, ginormous ears and stupid hair? Plus that ridiculous Cockney accent (in pre-Revolutionary Paris!) Then he breaks out into song, "Good evening dear Inspector. Lovely evening, my dear. I know this man my friends; his name's Inspector Arthur.

[little_giddy]

HEE. I think Arthur just pegged him for an idiot, in honesty. As he always does. Boys.

Must've been the ears... honestly they're like billboards sometimes.

*SNORT* Oh, they really are. I think that's why Merlin loves Morgana's flat caps so much. :D

OMG. DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH LIKE THAT.

[little_giddy]

Hee, thank you very much! I'm glad I could make a crappy day better.