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

[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. )