Chapter 4, in which our two little space nerds might just go on a cute little date in Brazil.
12:01 by sparkle_platypus
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: For All Mankind (TV 2019)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margo Madison/Sergei Nikulov, Margo Madison & Aleida Rosales, Sergei Nikulov & Aleida Rosales
Characters: Margo Madison, Sergei Nikulov, Aleida Rosales, Irina Morozova (mentioned), Emma Jorgens (mentioned), original character
Additional Tags: season four divergent, fix-it fic, we're going to Brazil baby, literal journey, healing journey, slow burn, letting them have nice things for once, discussions and depictions of PTSD
Summary: Margo and Sergei find their way towards Brazil and each other.
Commission for Zerorider56, featuring the newest addition to the Space Voyagers cast! This guy is quite a bit different from the ones I've done so far, and probably the most alien feeling one yet, but he was a really neat character to design, and this is my first time doing a character with four arms too. xp I also had to be a bit of a show designer for this one, and come up with something interesting for a character with two huge toes, lol.
Zerorider56 writes: "The helmsman of the Voyagers. Brash, rude, ill-mannered, yet nurturing, fond, and loyal. Gnork has seen the good, bad and ugly in life and doesn’t have the time nor the patience to put up with people’s rubbish. Often gives crude remarks and swears in his native tongue. He prefers the direct approach and will be blunt with his opinions. Despite his rough exterior and boorish personality, he does show genuine fondness for the crew members even if he prefers solitude to reflect. When it comes to family and kids, he's developed a more nurturing side due to his past experiences with his former partner and knows when to be patient when it concerns the young members of the Voyagers. (To the artist, he is middle-aged in our concept of aging. Although in the context of the story, his race have short lifespans so he'd be 32, which would translate roughly to 52 human years.)"
If you want to see all the other characters I've done for Space Voyagers so far, click here!
i know some people find the bear costume bit in Post Captain to be a bit implausible but I really love it bc obrian is committing so hard to his Actaeon bit that he’s literally putting one of his characters into the skin of a hunted animal.
have you ever thought about an odyssey!au for shanks and makino? ive thought about it for the longest time but ive never seen one
Oh boy have I ever! I mean, Siren’s Call is basically my Odyssey retelling, with their ten year separation, and Shanks returning home after a war (one of Makino’s pushy suitors is even named after one of Penelope’s suitors, and see also: the title), although maybe a more accurate way to put it would be that all of Shanties is my Odyssey AU, except instead of just one linear retelling, I’ve built several fics around different aspects of Homer’s epic.
You have Makino’s emotional unravelling and function as a figurative whirlpool in Charybdis, and pirate!Makino’s exaggerated reputation as a sea monster in Scylla. And of course, there’s Penelope, which is set during the timeskip after Shanks returns, only to find her beset by suitors (here distilled into one really annoying guy), and which deals specifically with devotion, and the struggles of being apart for so long. Tideswept even has Shanks as a literal king, returning in disguise to steal back his queen from her suitor. Many of Odysseus’ adventures are also flipped in my stories, so it’s Makino who forgets and spends ten years on a fabled island in Mnemosyne, and who journeys to the underworld in Andromeda Unbound, and Ithaca reverses the king’s return home with his queen going out to sea (finding her Ithaca).
So I feel like I’ve already written this story, and many times over - at least the parts of it that resonate with me with regards to Shanks and Makino, like their likemindedness (homophrosyne), and the enduring devotion between two people.
And at the end of every iteration, always, a reunion<3