Gilbert Norrell/Jonathan Strange
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| Pairing: | Gilbert Norrell/Jonathan Strange |
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| Gender category: | Slash, M/M |
| Fandom: | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| Canonical?: | No |
| Prevalence: | side pairing |
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Gilbert Norrell/Jonathan Strange is a slash pairing in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fandom. It pairs main characters Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell.
Despite including the main characters from the book, it is not the most popular slash ship in the fandom. (See: John Childermass/John Segundus)
History
A small fandom developped around the book (published in 2004) and was revived with the BBC adaptation (2015). In both cases, the pairing remained a rarepair. Since the book fandom took place pre-AO3, fanworks may exist elsewhere; only one work featuring this pairing was posted to AO3 pre-2015.
Common Tropes
- Enemies to Lovers due to their rivalry
- Post-canon, since Norrell and Strange disappear together at the end of the book
Example Fanworks
Fanart
Fanfic
- The library at Hanover-square by frausorge, 2007: November 1809
- a spell for attracting someone's attention by bookhobbit, 2015: Strange and Norrell attempt to woo each other. They are not, in fact, very good at it.
- the part is a whole by bookhobbit, 2016, also Arabella Strange/Jonathan Strange, John Childermass/Gilbert Norrell, John Childermass/John Segundus, a subversion of the soulmates trope: Arabella Woodhope is not Jonathan Strange's soulmate, and John Childermass isn't Gilbert Norrell's. All the same, they make it work.
- Strange Meeting by gyabou, 2015: One hundred years after their capture in the Pillar of Darkness, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell return to England. The year is 1917.