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Fandom: generation kill
Title: a devil dog in baggy pants
Pairing/Character Focus: ray person
Author: buffyaddict13
What makes this a gem:

Josh Ray Person is a US Marine. He thinks he knows what war is. He thinks he knows what friendship means. He thinks there’s no such as time travel. Ray is about to find out he’s wrong on all three counts.

a devil dog in baggy pants is a time-travel, body-switch, crossover between generation kill and band of brothers. and it's done so beautifully.

ray is literally thrown from his war in iraq into the d-day landing of world war two. we travel with ray as he tries to navigate his way around a war that's already over, with people who are mostly already gone, while trying to get back to bravo company and the people he left behind. it's an emotional journey, with frustrations and fears and heartbreak as ray grows attached to the men of easy company.

buffyaddict13 does an amazing job of narrating the parallels of wars 60 years apart while capturing not only ray's personality, but the men of easy company.

knowledge of band of brothers isn't necessary, but there are nods to the canon that would be better appreciated with experience of both miniseries.

ideare

Fandom: generation kill
Title: for a moment there i thought we were in trouble
Pairing/Character Focus: brad colbert/ray person
Author: indigostohelit
What makes this a gem:

But all the papers from here to New York can damn well take notice: Ray was born when the thunder was raging and crashin', came out of his mama with the Devil at his heels, and took off running straight to Texas buck naked and covered in blood. (Well, says Brad, that may've been the first time he found himself in that situation, but it sure as hell weren't the last.)
Or: "Gentlemen, from now on we're going to have to earn our stories."

for a moment there i thought we were in trouble is a western au, which sees brad and ray joining up to form a legendary team, feared and revered across the states.

indigostohelit has both brad's and ray's voices done pat; even with their speech-patterns altered to fit the setting, it is still obvious to spot the distinctive style of the two men.

the use of repetition is extremely effective in this; it fits well with the imagery of the whole story being recounted as a tale.

ideare

Fandom: generation kill
Title: come morning light
Pairing/Character Focus: walt hasser/ray person; walt hasser
Author: sephirothflame
What makes this a gem:

Ray is chosen as the Tribute from District 11. He's not the only one going through Hell.

come morning light is a hunger games au that looks at the arena games from the point of view of someone who doesn’t get chosen at the reaping. we get to see the reality of those left behind — their guilt, their attempts at carrying on as if everything is normal, their anger at how such brutality has become normalized, and their frustration at being used for entertainment by the elite.

i love walt and ray’s relationship in this; even in what little we hear from ray, there’s obviously a strong bond between the two.

sephirothflame really captures walt’s fear and worry as he waits for ray to return home. so much so, that the reader is pulled along on an emotional ride: stressing out with walt, crying with walt, and trying not to be too hopeful as we all watch the games unfold from a distance.

ideare

Fandom: generation kill
Title: like the past never happened
Pairing/Character Focus: timothy bryan; timothy bryan/ray person
Author: stolemyslumber
What makes this a gem:

Everything ends. They keep going.

like the past never happened focuses on the seeming quietness of the world that is portrayed in the majority of apocalypse media, and how the bonds built in bravo team during oif lasts even after the world has ended.

this fic had me tense from beginning to end, never quite sure where it would go, and expecting something supernatural at every turn.

there are scenes which are stark reminders that these aren't just ordinary people dealing with an apocalypse — these are trained recon marines and they already have experience with things and people trying to kill them; they won't go down easily.

sistermine’s comment is spot on:

stolemyslumber has “a knack for a sort of melancholy hopefulness.”¹

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a devil dog in baggy pants by buffyaddict13 [t+]

for a moment there i thought we were in trouble by indigostohelit [m]

come morning light by sephirothflame [t+]

like the past never happened by stolemyslumber [m]