Finding Rokovoko
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Finding Rokovoko |
| Author(s): | Prufrock's Love |
| Date(s): | 2017[1] |
| Length: | Wordcount: 44,000+ |
| Genre: | case file, MSR |
| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| External Links: | Finding Rokovoko, Archived version |
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Finding Rokovoko is an X-Files story by Prufrock's Love.
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Synopsis: A case in the Florida Everglades takes Mulder and Scully on a terrifying journey nowhere. The air conditioning and the laws of physics won’t work. She wants dinner and not to die. He dreams of a boy on the beach and not being Captain Ahab. A love story of absolute evil and existential doubt and truth that isn’t found on the free map from the Visitor Center.
Spoilers: Through Never Again
Possible Triggers: This is a horror story, and describes horrific instances of abuse, torture and homicide on children. Bear in mind, however, that while this is a horror story and may contain some truth, it is a fictional account.
Reactions and Reviews
RED ALERT!!! RED ALERT!!! Prufrock’s Love has written a new fic, Philes, and it is a DOOZY of a creepy casefile that somehow manages to also tie in elements of the early series mythology to make a cohesive, scary, fantastic story that will suck you right in.Few writers get us as excited as PL when they post a new story, and you all know why. PL is a master of weaving a proper, compelling story with wonderfully true-to-character MSR and dialogue, no matter where or when she happens to put them.
Today’s story takes place just after Never Again and before Memento Mori. It’s one of those really rare fics that will make your skin crawl one moment and then have you gasping out loud at a beautiful, angsty bit of dialogue the next. The pacing of this story is intense, the imagery vivid, and the relationship between Mulder and Scully damn near perfect.
Fair warning, if you have any adulting to do whatsoever, and/or need sleep anytime in the next, say, four hours, you might want to wait til tomorrow. But trust us…this is one questionable decision you won’t regret in the morning.[2]
I enjoyed this story very much, as I do most Prufrock stories. I was, I admit, a little leery of the "horror" description, but it's not Friday the 13th/Halloween type of horror, but a more realistic (and maybe therefore in some ways even more horrible) than those types. It reminded me a bit of reading Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" which remains one of my favorites in the genre. Things are simply not what they seem.More specifically, the dialogue between M&S sounds like an episode to me, in the best way. P's Mulder always seems slightly in awe of Scully, even when he's ticked off or annoyed with her.
I devoured this story when it first came out so now I need to go back and give it a more careful read.[3]
References
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20170106174044/http://legendarycreatures.xphilefic.com/Rokovoko.htm
- ^ X-Files FanFiction Sommeliers, Archived version
- ^ comment by zinnia03 at xf_book_club, posted on December 2016.