'...he couldn’t quite grasp yet what that feeling had been.
He only knows that he had seen it mirrored in Ash Tyler’s dark eyes.'
In my opinion as a fanfiction professional -
(Lol - kind of, I've written literally hundreds of these posts dontcha know! So I reckon if anything qualifies me as a 'fanfiction professional' then that does 😅)
- there aren't enough angst fics about Ash Tyler.
I mean c'mon fic writers! He's right there and brimming with angst!
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| Via Gfycat - I mean look at him! Look at the angst potential! |
OK, let's rewind - what am I talking about?
Due to circumstances beyond my control (Trekkie parents are a thing, and they will find any new Star Trek media available, you can't stop 'em,) I love Star Trek: Discovery.
Discovery is about the spaceship of the same name, and the sort-of Main Character (MC,) Commander Michael Burnham - Spock's sister. (It's a whole thing.)
It's difficult to go much further into it without getting SPOILER-y, so basically:
is spaceship, is Star Trek, is a whole lot of weird coming at the crew from a whole bunch of angles.
Some of that weird comes in the form of Ash Tyler - a former POW held by the Klingons.
Again, can't go too far into it without getting SPOILER-y, but this boy has angst and existential crises in every pore.
And yet... there's a surprising lack of angsty Ash Tyler fics.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there's a rich deep vein of angsty Ash Tyler goodness that I've yet to find (if that's the case - please point me in the right direction!) - but for now, I have been disappointed by how few fics there are.
Still - I did find a good one, albeit not as far into the angst as my emo goblin spaghetti brain prefers, but there we are. 😈😅
This fic features fall out from a particular... issue between Ash and the ship's doctor, Dr Hugh Culber.
Again, I can't go into that because SPOILERS 😅 - a whole, massive, lots-of-weird, level of SPOILERS - but it's plenty of angst material, I promise.
This is probably a good time to mention that the fic itself is chock-full of SPOILERS, OK? OK.
Some Content Warnings, my dearest nerdlets:
- PTSD-like symptoms
- dissociation
- violence/threat of violence
- identity issues
References to:
- torture
- being a PoW
- murder
This week's fic, then, is:
Lomqa' by Yeoyou
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My dad is a Trekkie parent, but he didn't really push the content on us. I'm much more into Star Wars!
ReplyDeleteHa, they don't push, to be fair - they've just played Star Trek on the TV at every opportunity for as long as I can remember. When I was little (I could've only been like 4-6 years old,) I used to sit on my dad's lap and watch The Next Generation at lunchtime every Sunday.
DeleteMy brother and my cousin are more into Star Wars - I like Star Wars, but I'm not as *into* it, y'know?