Baresark
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| Fraser/Kowalski Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Baresark |
| Author(s): | Laura Jacquez Valentine |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | due South |
| External Links: | online here online at AO3 |
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Baresark is a Fraser/Kowalski story by Laura Jacquez Valentine.
Reactions and Reviews
I really am kind of in love with the absolutely perfect Ray voice and tone that is set in this piece. It starts with Ray realizing that he likes when Fraser loses it when he gets angry. I'm not even really sure if this is about something per se, it's more of a character study, and how Ray and Fraser come together despite their own pasts and idiosyncrasies, and getting underneath the defenses, literally and figuratively. I think that Laura's writing is just superb. Not one word wasted.[1]
Just a little thing really, PG rated, no real sex in it. Sweet though, in a non-sugar shocky kindof way. In an honest way. Where the guys are just guys, I liked that. No real sap and the displays of affection when they are around others is nothing that you could be construed as anything but buddies. That was new and original to me. Don't see that much. She came up with an interesting little reason for why RayK has some trouble with remembering words sometimes. Didn't make it big and tragic or anything Ray frets about. Just something that is and 'so what? nothing he can do about it'. Lives with it and it doesn't matter to much to him. I could see so much of Ray from the eps in this. Oh, it is a little bit ep related. More like what happens after the eps and not so much in them. There is mention of some sex, but none really. I just thought Ray's voice in this was wonderful. You could just hear him, in that sweet self-deprecating, yet not so much as to call it low self-asteem way he has. I really liked it. When I read the title I kept think it looked like the word berserker. Along the way in the story she throws the definition of it up and turns out that is what it means. So points to me for clueing in early.<g> [2]
This piece has a really wonderful voice, and I reckon that with each re-read you'd pick up something different from it. It's from Ray's point of view, and I think it picks up something really quite special about him and his understanding of his relationship with Fraser, and Fraser himself. Really rather special[3]
References
- ^ 2006 rec at Rec50
- ^ Slash Slut's due South Recs Page, Archived version
- ^ "Due South: Fic Recs". Archived from the original on 2023-07-02.