Amazing Matrix fic
Aug. 21st, 2019 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doranwenIn between all the craziness of my job (which is all hours because I'm mostly self-employed and I sell digital products online in addition to the in-person stuff), I read fic, of course. There's one I read for my database in the last few weeks, that I just can't get out of my head. I've re-read it probably five or six times now; it's that amazing. So I finally decided to post about it. :)
It's for the Matrix films, and is multiple POVs (most of them unique, but Ghost appears a few times) showing Neo and Trinity and their relationship from various eyes, set mostly chronologically from pre-film 1 to post-Revolutions. The end leaves me wanting to cry (it's post-Revolutions, so naturally), and at the same time loving them so much more. You want character exploration and depth, and the most beautiful view of a true romance, this is the fic to read.
A snippet that I love, of Trinity watching Neo sleep between his unplugging and going to see the Oracle:
He's very, very bright. People don't recognize it because they've not read the files carefully enough, and most wouldn't know what they'd seen if they had. It's not what he's done: it's how. Subtle. Lucid. Perfectionist. And that stripped down, elegant style says more than any showily obvious achievements ever could. He instinctively focuses on what matters, lets the irrelevant fall away, and knows which is which. So clean. It's vanishingly rare. And unerringly indicative. It's the essence of someone gifted.
People keep asking me, do I agree. Is Morpheus right. Is he the One. And I always evade, and defend, and avoid. I never answer.
And the truth is, I don't know.
And the other truth is, I want him to be.
I couldn't begin to quote all the bits of it that I love, so I'll just point you all to the fic itself: Green Rain by Chaotic
It's for the Matrix films, and is multiple POVs (most of them unique, but Ghost appears a few times) showing Neo and Trinity and their relationship from various eyes, set mostly chronologically from pre-film 1 to post-Revolutions. The end leaves me wanting to cry (it's post-Revolutions, so naturally), and at the same time loving them so much more. You want character exploration and depth, and the most beautiful view of a true romance, this is the fic to read.
A snippet that I love, of Trinity watching Neo sleep between his unplugging and going to see the Oracle:
He's very, very bright. People don't recognize it because they've not read the files carefully enough, and most wouldn't know what they'd seen if they had. It's not what he's done: it's how. Subtle. Lucid. Perfectionist. And that stripped down, elegant style says more than any showily obvious achievements ever could. He instinctively focuses on what matters, lets the irrelevant fall away, and knows which is which. So clean. It's vanishingly rare. And unerringly indicative. It's the essence of someone gifted.
People keep asking me, do I agree. Is Morpheus right. Is he the One. And I always evade, and defend, and avoid. I never answer.
And the truth is, I don't know.
And the other truth is, I want him to be.
I couldn't begin to quote all the bits of it that I love, so I'll just point you all to the fic itself: Green Rain by Chaotic
