Don't forget, we're currently running the favorite fic theme. It doesn't have to be your single favorite fic (I have over 30 of those myself), but rather a story that you love to read over and over and again. I hope some of you will take the time to rec your favorite fic and share the squee with others.

Title: Son of Endless Sky
Author's LJ/DWJ: rydra_wong
Categories: theme: favorite fic, Jack and Daniel friendship, Daniel, character study, original character
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: fic tag
Link to story: Son of Endless Sky

Why this should be read: Rydra Wong gives us one of the most beautifully rendered original characters I’ve ever read.

Shortly after Daniel’s decension, the team meets a group of native traders who recognize that he has died and come back to life. They maintain that he is dangerous, belonging to neither earth nor sky; and they insist that Daniel allows them to provide him with a literal grounding, to keep his spirit safely within his unmarked body that was once nothing more than light.

You will be charmed by the one-paragraph complete story of little Bao, and Daniel’s quiet, gracious acceptance of what the natives ask. You will be moved by the profundity of the artist’s insights into SG-1, and the inherent beauty and pain in what he senses about Daniel’s past and how he writes that essence on Daniel’s body. Most of all, you will come away from this enchanting, haunting story with a sense of conviction that the traders are right – and that ephemeral Daniel does, indeed, require tangibility to keep himself anchored in our world.

(Regarding pairings: The fic is essentially gen; although the unnamed narrator observes the close relationship between Jack and Daniel and wonders about its nature, subtext is left up to the reader. The fic is a remix of brainofck’s Pervasive Local Obsidian, though, which is Jack/Daniel, so the fic is officially labeled as “Jack/Daniel implied/UST.”)


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