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Yuletide is Live! (Well, Sorta. Undead?)
Dec. 25th, 2009 02:26 amOMG, my author essentially wrote me a fourth movie. My ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
yuletide fic this year could well have been titled The NeverEnding Story IV: A New Beginning or some such.
In the world transform'd shall view, a fourth nihilistic force, the "Disquiet," threatens Fantasia, but it is more subtle in its working than the three which preceded it. Nicole and Bastian travel to Fantasia to try and save the world of imagination. The fic focuses on the Bastian & Nicole stebsibling relationship just like I asked it to, giving me exactly what I wanted in that regard, and culminates in a moment so perfect and beautiful (and geared right at my narrative kinks) that I shan't spoil it.
It also takes one of the important female secondary characters, Nicole, and promotes her to viewpoint character and protagonist, creating a chance for her story to be told (with that metaphor becoming reified in an appropriately metafictional way). Fic which passes the Bechdel test FTW!
The author captures perfectly the voices of the various Fantasians, while providing the reader (me!!!) with a Bastian and Nicole who are ever so slightly more mature (three years have passed in the fic since The NeverEnding Story III), but with their own new set of problems as a result of their transition into adulthood.
ETA: If you've never seen the third movie (part of me wants to say "lucky you" but the part of me which genuinely loves it despite its many flaws won't let me), all you need to know to understand the fic is that Bastian's father has remarried and so Bastian has a stepsister, Nicole. (It does make oblique reference to the fact that in the third movie Nicole steals the Auryn from Bastian and uses it to go shopping, which is the second most awesome scene in the whole movie; see image below/under the cut) All the other essential canon is contained in the first movie.
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yuletide fic this year could well have been titled The NeverEnding Story IV: A New Beginning or some such.In the world transform'd shall view, a fourth nihilistic force, the "Disquiet," threatens Fantasia, but it is more subtle in its working than the three which preceded it. Nicole and Bastian travel to Fantasia to try and save the world of imagination. The fic focuses on the Bastian & Nicole stebsibling relationship just like I asked it to, giving me exactly what I wanted in that regard, and culminates in a moment so perfect and beautiful (and geared right at my narrative kinks) that I shan't spoil it.
It also takes one of the important female secondary characters, Nicole, and promotes her to viewpoint character and protagonist, creating a chance for her story to be told (with that metaphor becoming reified in an appropriately metafictional way). Fic which passes the Bechdel test FTW!
The author captures perfectly the voices of the various Fantasians, while providing the reader (me!!!) with a Bastian and Nicole who are ever so slightly more mature (three years have passed in the fic since The NeverEnding Story III), but with their own new set of problems as a result of their transition into adulthood.
ETA: If you've never seen the third movie (part of me wants to say "lucky you" but the part of me which genuinely loves it despite its many flaws won't let me), all you need to know to understand the fic is that Bastian's father has remarried and so Bastian has a stepsister, Nicole. (It does make oblique reference to the fact that in the third movie Nicole steals the Auryn from Bastian and uses it to go shopping, which is the second most awesome scene in the whole movie; see image below/under the cut) All the other essential canon is contained in the first movie.
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