ST/B7 FIC: Three Fates, Waiting (1/1)

[kangeiko]

Title: Three Fates, Watching
Author: kangeiko
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series / Blake's 7
Characters: mirror!Kirk, Blake
Rating: PG13
Timelines: Pre-series (mirror!TOS), The Way Back (Blake's 7).
Summary: When Jim Kirk is six years old, his parents make a deal on his behalf.
Author's Note: Written for multiverse5000, this was ridiculously hard to write, and is possibly version 8 or 9 of attempt 6 to write this story. Many thanks to queenspanky and mizzykitty for their invaluable assistance; if it makes any sense, it is entirely up to their efforts.


Read it here.

Comments

[kernezelda]

What a neat, wicked idea! I very much like this - the technician's cold approval, Jim's despising his brother's weakness, the engrams not taking, so that he might have new memories, but he doesn't blindly accept them.

I love the intersection of Federation and Federation. I love Jim's role in the fall of Kodos, that Kodos falls because he listened to Blake - and how this is the turning point, when the rule of law becomes law by those who rule, and an Empire claws its way to life.

Wonderfully wicked!

[kangeiko]

Thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Interesting concatenation of the two.
Though who is the gaunt black haired man?

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Avon, I presumed... though he's really brown.

[kangeiko]

Yup, it's Avon. I nearly wrote him as dark brown, but then the image got confusing, so I simplified.

[kangeiko]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I had an image of it as Avon, him and Blake stuffed and propped upright in some museum like bookends. :)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Ah Avon has brown hair though and hardly "gaunt" at the end.

[kangeiko]

At the end of his life, yes. At the end of his time as a stuffed puppet, no. Having seen some stuffed individuals, even if they were round and rosy in life, they are most definitely not in death.

My bad on the brown vs black, but it looked funny on the page when I wrote it, so I changed it. *shrug*

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

An effect of the taxidermy/ embalming process? the hair as well as the gaunt features. :¬)
Oh well definitely not "living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse!"
Mummy Avons!

[kangeiko]

definitely not "living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse!"

Mwahaha formaldehyde is an unforgiving mistress...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

You're brilliant, and so is this story. The B7 Federation as the dark mirror of the ST one has been talked about so often, and yet I've never made the connection to the Mirrorverse. Mirror!Kirk as one of the children who got fake memories so Blake could be framed at his trial! Kodos!

*is in awe*

[kangeiko]

Awww, I am so glad you enjoyed it, I was really worried about this one. I had the idea for the mirror!TOS/B7 set up from the get-go, but it was really difficult to actually get it down on paper. I'm really glad it worked for you!

[kronos999.livejournal.com]

What an awesome idea. I hadn't concieved of mirror!TOS/B7 together, and you've made me wonder why it wasn't obvious since you pulled it off so brilliantly.

[kangeiko]

Thank you so much! I'm really glad it worked for you.

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

Oh you posted, hurray! I'm really glad I could be of help! :)

[kangeiko]

You were fabulous darling, I couldn't have done it without you.

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're welcome, hon. BTW did you want to meet up next week? How is Tuesday for ya?

[kangeiko]

During the day that would be awesome, but I am seeing 'Waiting for Godot' in the evening. Otherwise - Weds or Thurs eve?

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

Naw, I'm working. How hard is dubious, but you know, whatever. XD Thurs?

Waiting for Godot is awesome! <3 Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan!

[kangeiko]

I AM SO EXCITED ZOMG!!

Thurs is fab. 7pm? We could go to a sushi place in Leicester Sq, just off little newport street called okawari?

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

The play is SO SLASHY!!! Those two stroking each other's faces and dancing campily on stage made me explode with squee!

Sounds good! Hurray for sushi! =D And if you wish to bring ST books for lending, I would most certainly not object. *grin*

[kangeiko]

*evil grin* Anything in particular you're interested in catching up on? I don't have everything with me - most of my collection *cough* is in storage at my parents' house - but I do have Diane Duane's stuff and some other awesome bits and pieces.

And, of course, 'The Price of the Phoenix'.

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

I've never read any ST books, so I will be happy to take suggestions! I am particularly interested in reading Spock's World, but that's only if you have it of course. And yes, Price of Phoenix does sound awesome!

[kangeiko]

Fabulous. I shall have a look-see in the bookcase to see what I can find. I do have Spock's World, I just need to find where I've put it...

And you need to watch TOS! Have you seen the series?

[mizzykitty.livejournal.com]

I have S1 and 2. I'm working my way through the episodes, albeit somewhat slowly. I'm 2/3 through S1 at the mo. I've watched Amok Time and Journey to Babel as fic research, but otherwise I've tried to watch them in order. As for the films, I've seen 2-4. I've got the box set though, so I've just got to get around to seeing 1, 5, and 6!

I would watch them faster but for instance tonight we have to watch MI III because hubby wants to. *exasperated sigh* It's JJ Abrams though, so it's not too bad. But I would have preferred to be watching ST. heh.

[kangeiko]

LOL isn't that always the case...

[amatara.livejournal.com]

As I don't know Blakes 7 at all, I must admit this fic made little sense to me in the way of plot... but I was fascinated by it, nonetheless. Seeing the Mirror Universe through the eyes of a young Kirk was very effective and genuinely unsettling. Also, the way you switch scenes, which always keeps the reader just a bit off-balance, adds tremendously to the general feel of the story.

[kangeiko]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, despite the lack of B7 background. You really should look up Blake's 7, btw, it's scary beyond belief.

Quick backstory (which is all in The Way Back, the pilot, so not much in the way of spoilers): Blake was a major resistance leader in the totalitarian Federation until he is captured. Instead of killing him, they reprogram him to be the model citizen, and ship his siblings to another planet. They're executed, and he's regularly sent faked vids to make him think they're safe and happy. Eventually he's approached by the Resistance again, and he hooks up with a bunch of them just in time to have them massacred. He's captured again. This time, they decide on a different approach. Instead of reprogramming Blake, they take a group of children and reprogram them to think that he's molested them. In this way they discredit him, and any evidence he can present about the massacre. It's pretty horrifying stuff - and this is just the first half hour! The rest of the episode (and the series) just gets worse...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I don't know TOS at all, so I'm sure I'm missing some of the nuances, but what a wonderful idea, beautifully realised!

[kangeiko]

Thank you so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!