Readers' Recs - Alternate Universe

[mothlights]

We've come to the end of AU theme week and would love to hear from you. Rec a fic in which some particular element or moment has been changed from canon, or in which your favorite characters have been transplanted to a coffee shop, spaceship, or anywhere else.

• Recced stories can be any fandom and any pairing (or no pairing) as long as they match the theme. Fan art, podfic, and fan vid recs are also welcome.
• You don't need to write a review (unless you want to). All that you need to include are title, author, and link to the story.
• Fic or media as a single file are preferred, if available.


• If you'd like to use our reccing template, you can find it under the cut.

<b>Title:</b> <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Pairing:</b> <b>Categories:</b> <b>Length:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Author on LJ:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="exampleusername"> <b>Author Website:</b> <a href="http://www.example.com/">Website name</a> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Review:</b> Review text here. <a href="http://www.example.com/">Fic name</a>

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[streussal.livejournal.com]

Title: I've got a plan, I've got an atlas in my hands
Fandom: Hannibal (tv)
Pairing: Abigail-centric, sort of Abigail/Will
Categories: AU, fusion (with Hunger Games)
Length: ~5900 words
Warnings: character death, violence

Author on LJ: jeremy_finch
Author Website: on ffn.net (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1238541/), on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/but_seriously/works), and their lj masterlist (http://jeremy-finch.livejournal.com/5960.html) (slightly out of date)

Author's Summary: "My name is Will Graham," she hears him say, to her or to himself, she can't even tell anymore. He sounds almost uncertain. "I am eighteen. I am from District 4. I'm a tribute in the 74th Annual Hunger Games. It is 8:47pm. I am still alive. I am not a killer." (Abigail-centric)

Review:
Hannibal characters in the Hunger Games universe! Abigail Hobbs, the girl who did what she had to survive, as a tribute! This fic was basically demanding to be written, and the author did it beautifully. (...full disclosure: I provided the prompt that later resulted in this fic. But I wouldn't rec anything I wasn't confident in, and I adore this.)

Abigail's characterization is fantastic, her drive to keep going really keeping the story engaging. I also love Hannibal as a former victor, Abigail's mentor (of course), with his attention to details in training. And Will Graham, opening the fic by rescuing an injured deer, when he should be focused on saving himself (of course). There are appearances and references to several other Hannibal characters; I especially love Freddie's brief appearance.

I've got a plan, I've got an atlas in my hands (http://jeremy-finch.livejournal.com/30712.html) (also on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/860952) and ffn.net (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9434955/1/I-ve-got-a-plan-I-ve-got-an-atlas-in-my-hands))

(I basically copy+pasted this from my crack_van review here (http://crack-van.livejournal.com/6156480.html"))

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It's nice to get a rec for a fandom that none of our reccers have claimed at the moment. Hannibal's popular but not really represented here without recs like this.

(Love me some <lj user="crack_van")