Vorkosigan: Kindred Instruments, by Ollipop

28 June 2014 11:50 pm
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FANDOM: Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
FIC LINK: Kindred Instruments
AUTHOR LINK: [archiveofourown.org profile] ollipop
RATING/WARNING(S): General audiences | No authorial warnings; Jackson Whole ethics
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 4500 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Lotus Durona, Lilly Durona, Vasa Luigi Bharaputra

FIC SUMMARY: They know just as much about Lotus as she knows about herself. They know her aptitudes, her weaknesses. They have tweaked the neurochemical bath on her copies, for maximum effect. They are her, improved. She is them, unedited. She hates them.

Lotus Durona: Nature or nurture?

RECCER'S NOTES: A chilling piece that unpacks Lotus's defection to House Bharaputra. Ollipop skillfully fleshes out the villain PoV to gain the reader's sympathies for Lotus, and the story also explores the complex ethics of Jackson's Whole in a much more nuanced fashion than canon. The canonical pairing of Lotus/Baron Bharaputra forms one strand, but it's not a shippy fic; coming of age as one of a set of clones in the ultimate dysfunctional family is at the heart of the story.
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The Vorkosigan Saga: Asylum by Gwynne

15 April 2014 12:01 pm
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FANDOM: The Vorkosigan Saga
FIC LINK: Asylum
AUTHOR LINK: [archiveofourown.org profile] Gwynne
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences, mentions of slavery.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1,347 words, complete
MAIN CHARACTERS: Gregor Vorbarra, General Allegre

FIC SUMMARY: Freedom is where, and how, you find it.

RECCER'S NOTES: I adore Gregor. He is by far my favorite character in the Vorkosigan saga. I love that despite his metric tons of familial baggage and his position in society, he managed (with a lot of help) to be a functioning human being underneath all of the trappings of being The Emperor. This is a short, sweet, funny little story about Gregor being the Emperor, but also being very human, and both annoyed and amused by the (for once entirely unintentional) antics of his newest Imperial Auditor. Miles doesn't actually appear, but he is very much present in this story, which also does a nice job of expanding on Bujold's complex and fascinating world building.
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