Extra-Calary by Lferion
Fanwork Notes
fWritten on Leap-day (29 Feb 2020) for the Silmarillion Writer's Guild February 2020 Crackuary Bingo Challenge. Fill for O-2: Character breaks free of the fictional world, and O-5: Absurdly Magical.
Significantly informed by Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire series, but not actually a crossover.
Many thanks to Runa and Morgynleri for encouragement and sanity-checking.
Also posted here on AO3.
200 words according to my writing program and AO3.
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Summary:
Fëanor, outside of calenders entirely. Now what?
Major Characters: Fëanor
Major Relationships:
Genre: Crackfic, Fixed-Length Ficlet
Challenges: Crackuary
Rating: General
Warnings:
This fanwork belongs to the series
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 201 Posted on 8 March 2020 Updated on 8 March 2020 This fanwork is complete.
Extra-Calary
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It’s not a leap-day, Feanor thinks, finding himself somewhere temporally (spacially-temporally? Physically? Meta-physically? Meta-temporally? Meta-physically-spacially-temporally?) Other. This feels outside of calendars entirely. Outside of everything, but it is not the Void. The antithesis of Void, somehow. This is Some-thing, -time, -place -whereness. Awareness. Anything could happen here, potentially. Any moment, any point in space-time be accessed.
Changed? Or only observed? Outside Song? Divided from it? (Now that was a truly terrifying idea, the Song inaccessible, but no, Music still moved bright through his notional hroa, hummed and rang and wove in his thought.)
Outside the Story, the plot, the narrative.
What might he do, (Make, change, un-do, revise ...) with this day-that-was-not-a-day?
Unravel the Oath, one. Free his children, himself (self-self, gem-selves, Friend-partner-self). Break that chain. (And with the thought-intent-will, it was done. Absurd and magical and finally right.)
Now what?
Unravelling the Oath did not make it not have happened. Making it not have happened (which was notionally possible, here, but would have unknowable, unfathomable other effects and consequences. Leave it at finished, the binding unbound. Leave it.)
He couldn't stay out here, alone. And, reminded of consequences, he knew he must face the ones for which he was responsible.
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