Spoilers for the plot * * * * * * * * * * I'm glad to know you liked it. I think it's a brilliant story, probably her best for this fandom and one of the best treatments of Scully's immortality that I've read.
But I'm afraid I disagree about it not being grim. It has a markedly different tone initially from Penumbra's "Fathom's Five," a fic I also greatly admire. Her Scully is more balanced in her response to the realization that's she's immortal. She carries out her attempted suicide to prove to herself what she already believes to be the case, and she's relieved, initially. She embodies this interesting mix of denial and belief that seems very Scully-like. She doesn't question how or why it happened. She likes the idea that she'll be able to learn everything she ever wanted to know, that she'll get to understand and contribute and never run out of time. This reaction seems perfect for Scully, as is her reaction to seeing the gray people. She collects data, verifies her observations. It isn't until she loses the one person she can't imagine living without that the downside of immortality hits home. She's become a fixed point in time, as Doctor Who is fond of saying. She doesn't change, and she can't alter anyone's fate; she can only watch as those around her pass from this world, without the comfort of knowing she will see them again in the afterlife. She's TXF's equivalent of Doctor Who's Jack Harkness, except--perhaps--she won't age.
Random fic prompt: Someone should write a DW/X-Files cross-over, Dana Scully &/Jack Harkness, immortality.
Anyway, any story where Fox Mulder is murdered and dies in his partner's arms qualifies as grim to me.
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I'm glad to know you liked it. I think it's a brilliant story, probably her best for this fandom and one of the best treatments of Scully's immortality that I've read.
But I'm afraid I disagree about it not being grim. It has a markedly different tone initially from Penumbra's "Fathom's Five," a fic I also greatly admire. Her Scully is more balanced in her response to the realization that's she's immortal. She carries out her attempted suicide to prove to herself what she already believes to be the case, and she's relieved, initially. She embodies this interesting mix of denial and belief that seems very Scully-like. She doesn't question how or why it happened. She likes the idea that she'll be able to learn everything she ever wanted to know, that she'll get to understand and contribute and never run out of time. This reaction seems perfect for Scully, as is her reaction to seeing the gray people. She collects data, verifies her observations. It isn't until she loses the one person she can't imagine living without that the downside of immortality hits home. She's become a fixed point in time, as Doctor Who is fond of saying. She doesn't change, and she can't alter anyone's fate; she can only watch as those around her pass from this world, without the comfort of knowing she will see them again in the afterlife. She's TXF's equivalent of Doctor Who's Jack Harkness, except--perhaps--she won't age.
Random fic prompt: Someone should write a DW/X-Files cross-over, Dana Scully &/Jack Harkness, immortality.
Anyway, any story where Fox Mulder is murdered and dies in his partner's arms qualifies as grim to me.