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| Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Down |
| Author(s): | Ladonna King |
| Date(s): | 16 Janary 2000 |
| Length: | 16k |
| Genre: | slash fanfiction |
| Fandom: | Star Wars: The Phantom Menace |
| External Links: | Down (Master & Apprentice) http://www.slashcity.com/ciceqi/Down.htm (Blood, Love & Rhetoric, defunct) |
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Down is a Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan story by Ladonna King.
Summary: "I'm finding out what's left of you..."
Recs and Reviews
So...I'm finding that I also have a fondness for canon fics. Much as I love the happy AU where Qui never dies, the angst in these is sooooooo good. *eats it up with a spoon* This is another one where Obi's grief and inability to properly care for his padawan is what sets Anakin off on the dark path. [...]Normally I am not one for soul bonds, especially when they spontaneously appear due to anal sex. This bond is not anally induced, thankfully, and I really like the way Ladonna has used it, with it being what holds Qui's spirit to Obi.[1]
Down by Ladonna King. The story says between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, they have gutted Anakin. The truth is among the three of them and Ladonna, we, the readers, are gutted clean. But if you enjoy the sensation of having a tweezer going left and right in your belly, this is the story for you. Without question the saddest, most gut-wrenching piece by far I have read on Q/O. Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and Anakin are each maimed emotionally and spiritually by a web of dyscommunication, missed opportunities, unrequited love and death of loved ones. Anakin eventually turns, Obi-Wan is broken in heart and soul. Qui-Gon has to watch on helplessly as a ghost. Gosh, just summarizing it pulls me down. But the deadliest of it all is Ladonna's prose. Mercilessly hard hitting with surgical deftness and control. So is it all the way down? Fortunately no, the story ends on an uplifting note with clear portents that Obi and Qui do end up together sometime, somewhere, and for good, this time. But get your kleenex ready, anyway. Aren't you gonna need it! [2]
References
- ^ kyuuketsukirui in tpm_flashback. Ladonna King: Down, 15 September 2004. (Accessed 17 April 2015)
- ^ Obiphil's Master of the Galaxy, Story Recs, Wayback: 19 February 2001. (Accessed 14 June 2020)