SGA fic: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés (+ challenge)

[xparrot]

Firstly - McShep HappyFic Challenge! I've been waiting for something like this to pop up, since we all need it now. Since I not-so-secretly love unmitigated and absurdly happy endings even more than I love angst, I am all over this one (...whether or not I'll be able to write something for it is another matter, but we'll see...) It's very open-ended, so go! Sign up! Be happy!


Then, changing gears so fast that I apologize for the whiplash, a new fic:

This is...okay, I don't like the McKay/Keller pairing. My reasons range from my fairly levelheaded disinterest in seeing any romance in the show, to the increasingly emotional and irrational. But I don't want to take out that dislike on Keller, not when we have so little show left to enjoy; I don't especially like the char as she's been written anyway, but I'm trying. So really, this is less an actual fic and more me working to come to terms with the pairing, such as it is. Such as I see it, so I can move on and see Jennifer in her own right. Any McKeller OTPers will probably want to give this one a pass, for your own good.

(And next I will return you to your regularly scheduled Rodney/TEAM/McShep squee, before gnine has my head for straying!)

SGA: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés {~3,300 words}
PG, McKay/Keller, spoilers for "The Last Man" and "The Shrine"

Read it on AO3

Comments

[raiining.livejournal.com]

Oh! Yes!

I really really love this because it articulates everything I see in this pairing, and everything the Shrine showed us about it, too.

He DID say he loved her on day 6, but after that she was only his doctor, and then he forgot her completely, when he remembered everything else. And it seems like he WOULD be stretching for a future that did happen, could happen, but isn't - thankfully - because their neither of them alone yet.

And I love how you wrote this because it was KIND and nice and lovely, but utimiately truthful. I can see this as canon, because it fit so perfectly well with our characters.

And maybe the show will go further with it, but in my mind this is what makes the most sense.


Lovely - absolutely lovely. :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm frankly really glad to know other people see them this way...makes me feel a bit less tin-hattish about the whole thing. (To be honest, one reason I'm almost relieved the show is ending is that this pairing hopefully won't have time to develop into something big. I have no interest in watching SGA: The Love Story...with anyone, really. Even a slash pairing would probably end up annoying me...romance is just not why I watch the show.)

I also am hoping we never find out if John told Rodney about "The Last Man" future (or that we find he definitely did tell him) because this is the only way I really can make sense of "The Shrine" - I can too easily see Rodney convincing himself he does love someone after being told he had a relationship with them in an alt history. He doesn't want to be alone (he's not alone! but I don't think even now that Rodney fully understands just how much the team is there for him...)