Fic: Winter Begonia/Swallows and Amazons

[nineveh_uk]

This one is not so much niche fic as 'tiny crack visible only under microscope' fic, being a crossover of two almost entirely unrelated and both very small on AO3 fandoms. Also, lesson to self: never, ever try to write your first fic in a fandom as a crossover with another fandom, one of which is in a foreign language, making it that much harder to refer to canon to try and catch the character voices.

Fic: The Paths of Duty
Fandom: Swallows and Amazon - Arthur Ransome and 鬓边不是海棠红 | Winter Begonia (TV)
Rating: G, CNTW
Chapters: 1
Length: 2005 words
Summary: Two young people called home from their education in England to take over their father's business - how could they not meet? And having met, how could they not understand one another?

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Everything I read about China in the 1930s makes the bandit plotlines of Winter Begonia feel more rather than less plausible. And obviously if Missee Lee meets a canon-certified Safe in Taxis English-speaking Chinese man of about her age who is also on his way home due to a family crisis and forced to leave behind a passion for the arts to devote himself to business out of a combination of personal affection and a principle of filial piety, they're going to get talking!

Comments

[mrs_redboots]

Brilliant story, thanks!