SewnBySharks

Between the lines

Poor Scanlan. Someone finally saw through his veneer of humour and understood him on a deeper level than I think he has experienced since his mother. And then that person was brutally killed protecting him from an ancient dragon.

A creature with almost all the knowledge in the world. That was the creature who knew he was lonely. It took all the knowledge in the world to see Scanlan for who he really was.

- OOC, but Liam being really worried Jester would die in the beginning.

- Caleb telling Jester it was good to hear from her first and foremost in responding to her anxious message.

- Liam SPECIFICALLY making it so Caleb had a separate entrance from the rest of the group on the beach so his welcome wouldn’t be lost in the sauce, Jester going “it’s Caleb shark!”, and her hugging him when he turns back- and him getting a little flustered like he does, going “oh hey hi Jester.”

- Caleb bluescreening when Jester said she died (she didn’t).

- Caleb saying “ready to play our old game again… friend?” to Jester regarding polymorphing into eagles (and making a blank face after confirming Fjord would be doing so as well).

- Breathing a sigh of relief when Jester touching the gem didn’t hurt her.

- When Jester gets poisoned in the jungle, he asks if this is something she can fix, and when she’s still coughing, he makes an empathetic face and says they’ll wait for her.

those nearly-kind-of-almost-maybe-could-be canon couples

the ones that make it almost painful to live with the knowledge that if just one or two things had happened differently, just one or two things: if one of them had said something differently here, done something differently there, or if certain events had shifted a little, just a fraction, they'd have been together - undoubtedly.

you can see it. everyone can see it. but it's not enough - they're still an almost-but-not-quite, maybe-but-it-was-never-confirmed, kind-of-but-annoyingly-ambiguous

fanfiction writers take their potential and they hold it close and they lovingly craft something amazing and beautiful with it - finally giving them the chance to be together like everyone knows they would be in-canon if the story wasn't against them

they spring out entire novels from canon-divergence in the places where just a little step in another direction could have led to them being together

they build whole intricate Alternate Universes where the characters are able to meet in an entirely different way and still fall for each other

what I'm saying is that the insanity of a ship where it was almost-canon drives writers to a specific kind of creative madness that produces the best fanfiction....