I always really struggled with writing proper EOT9 book fic unless it was about secondary characters (or OT3) - I like different things about the book and the movie and different things about their versions of the characters - I guess I'm generally drawn to fandoms with multiple versions of canon to pick and choose bits from, but it makes it tough to stick strictly to one of them! There were a few writers who never really got into writing movie-based fic, but I don't remember anymore which ones they were.
Frontier Wolf is forever my fave, although I have trouble with requited Alexios/Cunorix, given the nature of Cunorix's marriage (even if Shula didn't mind sharing, I...think she would have Serious Concerns about Cunorix too getting involved with a Roman under the political circumstances, the same way Cradoc's wife Guinhumara in Eagle of the Ninth regarded Marcus with such suspicion when he visited. But I don't know, maybe someday I can figure out how to write it in a way that convinces me. Maybe Shula is like "if you want to get your heart broken if things go pear-shaped, you're a grown-up and make your own choices, I know you won't forget your responsbilities," which could be extra painful for everyone involved, mmm, angst! Probably should finish my WIP about Alexios' mother and Flavius from The Silver Branch first, though. If I ever write fic again, lolol.)
(P.S. Thank you for the rec, hahaha, not my favorite thing I wrote in that fandom - not enough dinosaurs - but up there.)
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Frontier Wolf is forever my fave, although I have trouble with requited Alexios/Cunorix, given the nature of Cunorix's marriage (even if Shula didn't mind sharing, I...think she would have Serious Concerns about Cunorix too getting involved with a Roman under the political circumstances, the same way Cradoc's wife Guinhumara in Eagle of the Ninth regarded Marcus with such suspicion when he visited. But I don't know, maybe someday I can figure out how to write it in a way that convinces me. Maybe Shula is like "if you want to get your heart broken if things go pear-shaped, you're a grown-up and make your own choices, I know you won't forget your responsbilities," which could be extra painful for everyone involved, mmm, angst! Probably should finish my WIP about Alexios' mother and Flavius from The Silver Branch first, though. If I ever write fic again, lolol.)
(P.S. Thank you for the rec, hahaha, not my favorite thing I wrote in that fandom - not enough dinosaurs - but up there.)