Fic: 30x30 {11} 'Written All Before', Shosanna & Fredrick

[piecesofalice]

Last week, I was eaten by a large monster with several gapped teeth and large reddish eyes. No joke! No bad excuse!*

_{* this may be a joke and/or bad excuse for being so damn busy.}

ELEVEN
"Written All Before"
Inglourious Basterds (Shosanna Dreyfus & Fredrick Zoller)



11. Written All Before
Inglourious Basterds-verse, 11th September 2009

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There's a beautiful irony to the entire process. The end, justified by the means, her red dress touching scarlet on a floor she'd probably have swept yesterday; his white jacket against a ladybird-coloured mess, and it's beautiful.


Because she's certain she knew this is How It Would End, from the moment he gave her Romeo and Juliet overtones as she stood on a ladder, slightly dizzy, and watched her family die again and again and again.


Because she's certain he'd probably go after the bastard responsible, string Landa up in any other time or any other place - but still, he shot her with the veracity of his image up on the screen and the poetry of everything and something not written by WIlliam Shakespeare.


Nothing is enough, she felt. Her breath shallow as his fluttered alongside - and she'd be damned if she died before him.


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Fin.

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RE: Shosanna and Zoller. I'm not entirely sure I 'ship them in the traditional sense, mainly because I don't. Except I do. Except I don't.

QT is very good at making awfully nasty characters into sympathetic human beings, which he did extremely well with Zoller. There's something juvenile and naive about him, a reall gung-ho war hero who's not entirely sure why or what he did exactly. And QT is very good about slamming home that the characters he's just made you kind-of-reluctantly like, aren't nice people by any stretch of the imagination.

And that's probably why they intrigued me, as a set - they reflected a lot in each other, because, really, they were two people who, in any other world, would probably be okay with each other. Their circumstance and overwhelming sense of duty made them so tragic, it's almost epic.

(And Marcel was awesome)

(And Mélanie Laurent and Daniel Brühl are <3)

(And whatever, they're characters in a QT film, their main motivations are probably CANDY and MORE CANDY)



I shouldn't admit this was written to Mika's new album, should I? MOOD KILLER

Comments

[suspiriorum.livejournal.com]

The versatility of Shosanna/Fredrick is one aspect of the pairing that I adore; there's both film canon to explore and endless AU possiblities.

Also, QT has got to stop encouraging me with all of his "I ♥ the projection booth scene! Also, did I mention they're Romeo and Juliet?"

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

YES, AUs. I love me some AU action. _{I shan't write Mélanie Laurent and Daniel Brühl RPF, I shan't!}

[suspiriorum.livejournal.com]

I've never written fanfic before, but they're giving me too many ideas to ignore.

un_amico will gladly accept Mélanie/Daniel RPF, too. Perhaps I should update the comm rules to include that?