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makoyiTitle: a spell against the lonely
Author: Raven aka![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Fandom: Rivers of London
Genre: Character Study
Length: Short (Words: 1,556)
Author's Summary:
Nightingale, a queer life. (Nightingale's very unusual life told in moments that reveal a lot about his character.)
Review:
Nightingale's life has been defined by some serious scars - especially Ettersberg (Buchenwald) which hangs over his life like a dark shadow for a lot of reasons - it's when he lost nearly everyone he knew, almost every wizard he had ever heard of died or was otherwise broken there; it's when he started aging backwards very, very slowly which further cut him off from the lives of normal people who weren't to know about magic and would notice sooner or later; and there's the extra horror that Buchenwald held thousands of Pink Triangle prisoners when fanon generally reads Nightingale as gay (and not for any of the usual slash OTP reasons)... By the time of canon (and, in a lot of ways, because of the events of canon), Nightingale finally starts to come back from some of that and this fic does a good job of studying Nightingale through that character arc.
a spell against the lonely (on AO3)
Author: Raven aka
Fandom: Rivers of London
Genre: Character Study
Length: Short (Words: 1,556)
Author's Summary:
Nightingale, a queer life. (Nightingale's very unusual life told in moments that reveal a lot about his character.)
Review:
Nightingale's life has been defined by some serious scars - especially Ettersberg (Buchenwald) which hangs over his life like a dark shadow for a lot of reasons - it's when he lost nearly everyone he knew, almost every wizard he had ever heard of died or was otherwise broken there; it's when he started aging backwards very, very slowly which further cut him off from the lives of normal people who weren't to know about magic and would notice sooner or later; and there's the extra horror that Buchenwald held thousands of Pink Triangle prisoners when fanon generally reads Nightingale as gay (and not for any of the usual slash OTP reasons)... By the time of canon (and, in a lot of ways, because of the events of canon), Nightingale finally starts to come back from some of that and this fic does a good job of studying Nightingale through that character arc.
a spell against the lonely (on AO3)