Sunshine Challenge: Red

[impala_chick]

Red reminds me of Pendragon red! And the Canadian Snowbirds. My assignment for camelot remix this year was to write fic for amph's art, and I was so excited because look at this art! I did a deep dive into the Snowbirds, females in the Canadian military, and Canadian slang; I have so much respect for the Snowbirds now.


(Original Post)

Looking to the Sky (the Oh Canada remix) (8896 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Military, Alternate Universe - Canada, Pilots, Alternate Universe - Modern with Magic, News Media, POV Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), First Meetings, Getting to Know Each Other, Awesome Morgana (Merlin), Mention of Uther Pendragon, Getting Together, Pining, Merlin's Magic Revealed (Merlin), Women in the Military, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary:

It's Arthur's last year as a Snowbirds pilot, and he wants to ensure the squadron has the best year they've ever had. He's confident that his half-sister Morgana will be their new rising star, but he's completely unprepared to meet his match in the form of pilot Merlin Emrys.

Comments

❤️

[oldtoadwoman]

I haven't seen Merlin, but the art is lovely. I say that I don't usually care for AUs, but that's mainly the coffee-shop AUs or the college AUs, which too often feel a bit lazy.(There's no trope that can't be brilliant in the hands of the right author though and I've read a lot of great stuff that sounded like it would be ridiculous when it was recommended to me so that's not a blanket rejection of all college/coffee-shop stories.) But when it's a complex AU, it can be fantastic. I think the first such AU I read years ago was a Due South fic where all the characters were re-cast as hockey players. I think my first reaction was "But why would…?" and the person recommending it was "Just read it!"

A story about pilots has me curious enough that I'm considering reading it even though I don't know the source show.

Re: ❤️

[impala_chick]

I totally agree with this. Mundane AUs like coffee shop AUs can be a little dry and lack any semblance of plot. But I do love AUs that get detailed about something the author obviously knows a lot about, because then I feel like I'm learning something new and I also can tell the author put a lot of thought into how the characters would fit into that world. Speaking of Hockey AUs, there are some great ones out there. I never watched hockey in RL until fandom introduced me to the sport, lol.

I hope I did enough research to do this AU justice. At least it was fun to do a deep dive and try to bring in elements of other Merlin AUs that I like.