Fannish Fifty Challenge: Post # 38: Gladiator AU fic recs

[ride_4ever]

Gladiator AU fics that I have loved.

Note that the due South fic is a WIP with six chapters written of ten chapters intended.

Leverage Gladiator AU on AO3 "Together" by bigsunglasses. Per the author: The arena is not a good place to be. The only way to survive it is together. A Roman-ish AU. Eliot, Parker and Hardison fighting as gladiators.

due South Gladiator AU on AO3 "When We Get to Syracuse" by vivarocksteady. Per the author: An Ancient Rome/gladiator AU. This is a fusion fic where our heroes from due South are living in the world of the hyper-violent Starz series “Spartacus.” You do not need to be familiar with “Spartacus” to read this fic. “Spartacus” itself does not hew particularly close to history, and this fic is leaning towards a more hopeful ending, so we’re abandoning historical accuracy here.

Comments

[vivarocksteady]

:O Awww! Thanks!

[ride_4ever]

❤️🧡💛

[corvidology]

I'm not the fan fic reader AUs are looking for (never mind, the rest of fandom LOVES them) but gladiator AUs really never occurred to me.

Never to old to learn something fannish! ;D

[ride_4ever]

LOL, I am amused by your spin on that Jedi mind-trick.

And as for Gladiator AUs never having occurred to you, well, it's like what Internet Rules 64 and 65 say. (Internet Rule 64: If it exists, there's an AU of it. Internet Rule 65: If there isn't, there will be.)

[corvidology]

Honestly, I think it's less that it didn't occur to me - welcome to Fandomland - and more it's one I've never run across in any of my fandoms. There are the really old fandoms where everything shows up sooner or later and then fandoms where the AUs fall into very specific groups. ;D

[ride_4ever]

Heh, the very first gladiator AU I ever encountered was in PoI (and you know Reese would be a hella gladiator). If I could have remembered how to find that fic I would have included it with these recs.

[corvidology]

I probably didn't even see it as I filter out all AUs that aren't canon divergence.

He would look good in a Pteruges though. ;D

[amedia]

These sounds like fun! I haven't watched Leverage yet, but the due South one sounds like fun! Off to "Mark for Later"!

ETA: I also watched all of Spartacus - how could I not?! - even though I agreed with a fellow classics prof (not TODS) who presented on it at a conference and described it as consisting primarily of "gore and porn"!!!

[ride_4ever]

Heh, your apropos icon for Spartacus! (Are you the icon-make?)

[amedia]

I am! It's a screencap from the movie Meet the Spartans. Would you like to share?

(That last sentence gave me a vivid mental image of RayK leaning across Fraser to invite RayV ... to enjoy some of a plate of nachos that was too big for two, obviously. )

[juniperberry]

Oooh, thanks for the recs!

[ride_4ever]

Yays for these looking interesting to you!

[verushka70]

Whoa - I need to check out the dS gladiator AU. That sounds AWESOME.

[ride_4ever]

I read the first two chapters and I adored it...but now I'm waiting to read it en toto when it's in its finished state. vivarocksteady does a terrific job of maintaining the essence of the characters while putting them in such an absolutely AU setting.