Motion/Perennial
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| Pairing: | Motion/Perennial |
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| Gender category: | F/F |
| Fandom: | Friends at the Table: PARTIZAN and PALISADE |
| Canonical?: | non-canonical |
| Prevalence: | rarepair |
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Motion/Perennial is a femslash rarepair from Friends at the Table's PARTIZAN season. In canon, Motion and Perennial are both Divines (machine-gods) with decidedly post-human embodiments. Motion serves the empire that created her, enlisting an undead army into war and violence, while Perennial is known to that same empire as its ultimate adversary. Despite their oppositional roles, it is implied that Motion and Perennial know each other and do not straightforwardly hate each other.
In Friends at the Table fandom, the few fanworks centred on this ship tend to explore this complex dynamic, looking at the differences in the two characters' philosophies and worldviews. Some fanfics portray Motion and Perennial coming to love each other but still finding themselves unable to abandon their respective ideologies or what they see as their missions.
History
Only a few Motion/Perennial fanworks exist, and most were created by or gifted to Aglennco (a.k.a. meowclops); Aglennco was likely the originator of the ship.[1] The first Motion/Perennial fic, Aglennco's show me something interesting, was posted to Archive of Our Own in January 2023.[2]
Example Fanworks
- show me something interesting by meowclops,[2] the first Motion/Perennial fic.[1]
- The Adversary and the Never-Dies Machine by Nat Silveira, an example of a story where love is not enough to bridge ideological differences.
- just close enough to feel far away by meowclops,[3] a fic where Perennial thinks about and remembers Motion during sex with Clementine Kesh.
External Links
- Motion page on FatTWiki
- Perennial page on FatTWiki
References
- ^ a b Author's note from Aglennco's show me something interesting: "I had to be the first one to write Motion/Perennial. I championed it and so here I am."
- ^ a b show me something interesting by meowclops (Jan 21, 2023). Archive of Our Own. Accessed February 25, 2024. (archive link)
- ^ just close enough to feel far away by meowclops (Nov 3, 2023). Archive of Our Own. Accessed February 25, 2024. (archive link)