Fandom Snowflake 2022 Challenge #10

[greerwatson]

Challenge #10:   In your own space, rec a fanwork (fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!) you did not create.

I decided to rec Forever Knight fic; and then had a tricky question to answer, since there are a few thousand of them now. Not on AO3; but, if you go back to the old archives, then there certainly are—plus, of course, the new ones. So I decided to limit it to LK stories. And then, having read through a few (and there are more than just a few!), it seemed best to stick to a single theme. So here a a couple of stories that follow the series finale, "Last Knight", but require a measure of detective work from a lone survivor.

Angst is one thing; and I don't deny there are some good examples out there. However, I do like me some plot with my fic.

Dorothy Elggren's "All The Rest Is Silence" is, of course, the classic of the type. Set immediately after "Last Knight", a grieving Captain Reese tries to puzzle out the mystery of what exactly did happen in Nick's loft that fateful day.

On the other hand, brightknightie's "Corners of the Mind" is predicated on Tracy's survival with amnesia about the year she worked with Nick, until a series of odd events bring on nightmares that point to a forgotten secret.

Comments

[goddess47]

Forever Knight! What a blast from the past! I love when people are still writing anything in an old fandom like this one... and some of it still on non-AO3 archives, no less.

That is an amazing memory... hope it stays out there for others to find and appreciate.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

[greerwatson]

Oh, both these stories are oldies (but goodies!). Hence the ancient archive. However, you're quite right: there are still people writing Forever Knight. There's a little annual fest, and a few ardent fans who write even outside gift exchanges. I've added the odd fic to AO3 myself.  :)