Bad Cards
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| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bad Cards |
| Author(s): | cthulhu_is_chaotic_good |
| Date(s): | 01 January 2020 - 30 July 2020 |
| Length: | 55,990 words |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Alex Rider |
| External Links: | Bad Cards (AO3) |
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Bad Cards is an Alex Rider story by cthulhu_is_chaotic_good. Sirius4Life wrote an epilogue: Play Your Cards Right.
Summary: Agent Mark Corwynn had thirteen years of experience working in the Special Operations division of MI6. And for the first time, he was questioning his career choices.
Recs and Reviews
When Alex and an MI6 agent who is an actual adult are captured on a mission, who should they run into but Yassen the assassin. Working for the bad guy. Typical. Awesome outsider POV of the Alex-Yassen dynamic—and an unusual one at that. Because cthulhu’s Yassen is very much NOT a nice guy. We THINK he cares about Alex, but definitely not to the degree that he does in other interpretations (i.e. might prefer to not murder Alex but he’d probably be a-okay with some light torture) and this Yassen always keeps us guessing. Cthulhu’s plotting and pacing are absolutely marvelous as well! Teen, complete. Post-canon.[1]
Like any big character in the fandom, Yassen Gregorovich has been taken in many directions. Each author seems to have their own “version” of him and Cthulhu has one of the best honed over years of writing fantastic multi chapter stories involving him. Her Yassen is sharp and dynamic across the many different circumstances he finds himself in under her pen. But for all that he changes, he keep his very practical and lethal edge which is a rare treat that goes far in upping the stakes and tension in her fics.
Cthulhu is most well known for Bad Cards, a multi chapter Outsider POV look into Alex and Yassen’s relationship in the field through the lens of a failed mission. But you would be doing yourself a disservice if you stopped there. She has multiple fics that explore their relationship in new and exciting ways - The Handler takes a look at Yassen’s less than impressed views on Alex and the many handlers MI6 gives him, Under Siege gives Alex’s perspective on just how much larger the intelligence world is using painfully real details with a lovely little twist.[2]
References
- ^ "Looking for some Alex Rider fics on AO3? Here are some recs!". Archived from the original on 2022-05-04.
- ^ "Cthulhu is Chaotic Good". Archived from the original on 2022-05-04.