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Title: Adrift in the Wreckage
Author: Red Fiona
Fandom: Twelfth Night
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters you recognise, they're all Shakespeare's.
Characters: Antonio, Sebastian, Sebastian's crew
Pairings: Antonio/Sebastian
Rating: PG-12 (upper end of PG, canonical levels of violence)
Notes: Written to a prompt from LGBTfest 2009. The original prompt was, "The laws of every land condemn sodomy--but they're at sea." Physical descriptions from a version I saw in Manchester once (which was most excellent). The more piratical parts were influenced by this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code. A couple of bits of dialogue pinched from Shakespeare.
There is some very 16th century medicine in here and some highly inaccurate sailing vernacular.
Summary: The law of the sea was that you look for survivors when you pass a wreck, and you save them if you find them. Antonio has followed the sea's laws all his life, and knows how they differ from the laws of the land. When he and his crew rescue a half-drowned survivor from a wreck, Antonio finds himself caught between the sea's laws and the land's laws.
( Antonio had always lived off the sea. )
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The end
End notes: I recommend the following as a soundtrack. It was certainly helpful during the writing process .
Dreamwidth end notes: Yup, I did write this with Sebastian's name being Sebastian all the way through. And then realised that the parts I had to quote from the play included the "Sebastian called himself Roderigo on the boat" parts. I thought that it would be fine, and some retrospective rewriting of memory on Antonio's part could be blamed. And then I realised I needed the Sebastian = Roderigo bit for the ending. Cue re-write.
Author: Red Fiona
Fandom: Twelfth Night
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters you recognise, they're all Shakespeare's.
Characters: Antonio, Sebastian, Sebastian's crew
Pairings: Antonio/Sebastian
Rating: PG-12 (upper end of PG, canonical levels of violence)
Notes: Written to a prompt from LGBTfest 2009. The original prompt was, "The laws of every land condemn sodomy--but they're at sea." Physical descriptions from a version I saw in Manchester once (which was most excellent). The more piratical parts were influenced by this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_code. A couple of bits of dialogue pinched from Shakespeare.
There is some very 16th century medicine in here and some highly inaccurate sailing vernacular.
Summary: The law of the sea was that you look for survivors when you pass a wreck, and you save them if you find them. Antonio has followed the sea's laws all his life, and knows how they differ from the laws of the land. When he and his crew rescue a half-drowned survivor from a wreck, Antonio finds himself caught between the sea's laws and the land's laws.
( Antonio had always lived off the sea. )
~~~~
The end
End notes: I recommend the following as a soundtrack. It was certainly helpful during the writing process .
Dreamwidth end notes: Yup, I did write this with Sebastian's name being Sebastian all the way through. And then realised that the parts I had to quote from the play included the "Sebastian called himself Roderigo on the boat" parts. I thought that it would be fine, and some retrospective rewriting of memory on Antonio's part could be blamed. And then I realised I needed the Sebastian = Roderigo bit for the ending. Cue re-write.
