Title:
 Fate Makes A Man
Fandom: Oz
Pairing:
 Beecher/Keller, Beecher/Schillinger non-con
Categories: AU, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Length: 
Epic (~54,000 words)
Warnings:
violence, non-con, abuse, language, drug usage, prison politics, Nazis

Author on LJ:
blackchaps
Website:
 Blackchaps’ Pony Ride


Review:

Tobias Beecher, Vern Schillinger's latest prag and 'pussy bitch' extraordinaire, becomes better acquainted with the newest hack in Oz: Officer Christopher Keller.

blackchaps has a way of making long, engaging AUs, and Fate Makes A Man is no exception. There's enough prison politics and f*ed-up romance to go around, and the AU is incredibly believable. It would make sense that Chris Keller would make a great prison guard, if he hadn't been a serial killer, and the author pays a good amount of attention to his backstory, making a believable backstory for him, while still retaining his character. What I liked best about this though, aside from the romance, was that blackchaps pays attention to the other characters too. It's not just about Keller and Beecher falling in love, it's also about prison politics, on both sides of the bars. Keller worries about his job and his connections with the Nazis, and Beecher schemes to break away from Schillinger's clutches by any means necessary, and it's all kind of awesome. The only thing I wasn't quite sold on was the writing itself, it's a little too heavy on the exposition for my tastes, but that's just because I'm super-picky and a little bit of a snob about what I read besides.

Fate Makes A Man
(ETA: there's a malware warning when you go to the page- but the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic says that it's been safe for a while now, so I'd take the warning with a grain of salt.)