Title:  Hands
Fandom:  Gundam Wing
Pairing:  gen, gen, gen
Categories:  drama, post-canon
Length:  Long  [~22,000 words]
Warnings:  OCs abound; some violence


Author on LJ:  n/a
Website:  Their page on Fanfiction.net

Review:  "The Preventers run a DNA analysis on a boy in a hospital, and find the Lang's lost family member. Can this guy, with his moodiness and secrets, really be their son?"

My hat's off to Oedipus Tex, for finding a different way to write believable Gundam Wing fic from an outsider's perspective.  The POV-character is a young girl, who isn't sure if she likes this new, taciturn brother of hers, and who wonders - in a very teenage fashion - why her parents are so determined to make this stranger want to stay, when all he does is say that he'll leave once he's eighteen.  The boy's one of the Gundam pilots, of course (and it's not very hard to puzzle out which one), and he no more understands this suburbanite family than they do him.  

The OCs are excellent, and I found myself sympathizing with the parents and siblings, who really aren't equipped to comprehend what their prodigal son has been up to - but who want to love and shelter him anyway.  (At least, when he isn't busy driving wedges between them with his behavior.)  The danger of harboring a pilot isn't forgotten, and the stand-off at the end between the pilot and his enemies is extra-suspenseful due to the family's presence. 

Hands