Cancer Arc
| Synonyms: | cancer-arc |
| See also: | Character Death, ScullyAngst, MSR, Redux arc |
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Cancer-arc is a very popular X-Files fan fiction genre which features mytharc stories that take place between the shows' season 4 episode Leonard Betts and season 5 episode Redux II that deal with the Scully's diagnosis, her reaction and the reaction of the people about the diagnosis and struggle to find a cure. These kind of stories are usually also MSR.
In the show's canon the following episodes are considered as the cancer arc:
- Leonard Betts
- Never Again
- Memento Mori
- Zero Sum*
- Elegy
- Gethsemane*
- Redux*
- Redux II*
* these episodes are also considered as/called the Redux arc.
The following episode allude to the Cancer-Arc in canon
- Season three episode The Blessing Way could also be considered the beginning of the Cancer-arc since that is when Scully discovers the chip and has it removed from her neck.
- season three two-parter Nisei/731 - dealt with the revelation that other abductees recognized Scully and that they all had cancer. This includes Penny Northern who played a prominent role in season four's Memento Mori.
- season four episode Unruhe first hinted at the illness
Initially, Never again was scheduled to be aired befireLeonard Betts. Gillian Anderson has been quoted that had she have known that Scully had already had a suspicion bout having cancer, she would have played the part in Never Again differently.[1]
Cancer arc in Fanworks
Archives
- The Oncology Ward - Cancer-arc fics featuring Agent Scully
- works tagged as cancer-arc at Archive Of Our Own
notable Fanfiction
- Dance Without Sleeping by Lydia Bower
- Enough (X-Files story) by Annie Sewell-Jennings
- Erosion by Annie Sewell-Jennings
- Eye of the Beholder (X-Files story)
- Gypsy by Rachel Howard
- Isometry by Syntax6
- Salvation (X-Files story) by CiCi Lean
- Solar Flare by Loch Ness
- Theory and Practice by Nascent
- The Wonderland Series by Karen Rasch
- To Love Somebody by Char Chaffin and Tess
- Primal Sympathy by Lydia Bower
Fanvids
- Have You Seen Me Lately by Lyle
- The X-Files; The truth will save you [cancer arc ] by Alightonahill
- Cancer Arc - Mulder POV] by DanaKMulder
- {Reupload} Cancer Arc - Show Must Go On by NoteverythingdiesXF
- Mulder's Struggle / Scully's Cancer by Trustno1 Xfiles
- Scully's Cancer - Breathe Me by BostonUrMyHome
- ~ The X-Files ~ Nothing Is Over by InvisiGoth
- The X-Files: Mulder By Her Side, Scully's Cancer by RetroCaretaker53
- Mulder's Guilt by Eyes and Ears
- Scully's battle with cancer The X-Files by The X-Files Fans Channel
- Scully's cancer- Si Amaneciera- X-Files by Aliceccp06
- Scully's Fight by hawkeyecreations
- [X-Files Last Flowers] by paperhearts81
- For You Only | The X-Files by kenziex13
- {Reupload} Cancer Arc - It's not my time by NoteverythingdiesXF
- Carry You Home by SydGillyKC
Further reading
- Chronicle X Interview with Dasha K
- How Will It End? Interview with Michelle Kiefer
- Chronicle X Interview with Vehemently
- Written on the Body: Real Life and the Character of Dana Scully
- Melissa Meditations: A White Buffalo Calf, A Miracle, and a Sacrifice
