Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018), Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: James Fitzjames & Original Female (Dragon) Character, Francis Crozier & James Fitzjames, James Fitzjames & Henry T. D. Le Vesconte, James Fitzjames & James Walter Fairholme, James Walter Fairholme & Original Male (Dragon) Character, James Fitzjames & Stephen S. Stanley
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Death, Canon-Typical Body Desecration, Draconic Death, Alternate Universe - Temeraire Fusion, dragon rider au, Aviator James Fitzjames, Character Study, James Fitzgender, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Court Martials, Unreliable Narrator, Disassociation, nonlinear storytelling, Very Small Kaiju Fights, Pre-Slash, Pining, Myth making, Canon-Typical British Imperialism, Alternate History, Gratuitous Nicknames
Summary:
If the ocean weren’t frozen over, though, they wouldn’t be out this far afield from the ships they’d been stranded on for nearing a year; they would be only a mile or so ahead, piloting Terror and Erebus through the ice labyrinth of the North and forging the last link between East and West, or towing them, should it prove necessary to do. This was what he had been sent for, he and Aurora and Walter and Ulysses, and now it was time to fulfill their orders.
In 1845, two Royal Navy ships and two Aerial Corps dragon crews left England in an attempt to finally discover a navigable passage through the Arctic. In 1847, Captain James Fitzjames struggles to shield his dragon from the fallout of a failing Expedition. In 1849, at a meeting of the Admirals of the Air, Captain James Fitzjames of Her Majesty's Dragon Aurora recounts the events of the disastrous Franklin Expedition to determine if he will be court-martialed for the loss of HMD Ulysses with all hands aboard. The truth lies lost on the ice, somewhere in the middle.
My entry for @theterrorbigbang is live today! A Temeraire universe fusion where James gets a dragon, the dragons get cold, and Fairholme just really never had a shot. Featuring stunning art from the lovely and skilled @noughticalcrossings!
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