Remix

[alixtii]

So, remixredux08 is live, and I've read the remix that was written for me: Where the River Meets the Dawn (The Strobe Lights and the Disco Remix) is a remix of my River/Dawn femslash_minis piece Where the River Meets the Dawn. There are several significant changes my remixer made to my story.

• It fits into, and makes references to, comics canon.
• Mal, Zoe, and Jayne are all still alive, so nobody calls Kaylee "Captain."
• It's Inara's shuttle, rather than Serenity herself, which crash lands into Earth.
• Zoe is among the crew who appears on Earth, and Saffron is not. Mal and Jayne still don't appear in the story (even though in this 'verse it's because they're still on Serenity and not because they're dead).
• It extends the story to cover the return of the Serenity crew to their own universe--which means, sadly, that River and Dawn are broken up in it.
• It's told from Caridad's POV. (The original alternates between River's and Dawn's.)

That last bullet point is certainly the most interesting--it makes the story down to earth in a way my original really isn't. There's a lot of little details that Caridad notices and associations that she makes, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, so that it gives the story a fascinating texture, where she's much more interested in all of that than in the soi-disant main action.

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Anyone who guesses which remix I wrote gets a ficlet. Comments are screened.