MAGICIANS BIG BANG WEEK 4: RECAP
Plum and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by @cha-cha-charlton, @fishfingersandscarves (Art: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Time travel has made Quentin Coldwater’s life harder in a million different ways. Maybe in the hands of someone who cares, it can finally save him.
Anchor Escapement by @hmgfanfic, @canonicallyhugedick (Art: 1, 2, 3Â | on AO3)
Quentin is, of course, still curled in a ball when Eliot glides down beside him. He moves slowly, so as not to spook the poor thing, and it takes three gentle coughs from his throat before Quentin finally lifts his head from his hands, blinking at Eliot with a blank expression.
Eliot gives him a small, hopefully genial smile. “Mind if I join you?”
“Oh, Jesus Christ.” Quentin rolls his eyes back and slams his head into the wall.
Eliot Waugh has been captivated by Quentin Coldwater since the moment their eyes first met. Unfortunately, their eyes first met while Eliot was hooking up with Quentin’s boyfriend.
It’s not exactly Casablanca.
a way in the wilderness by @stormscoming, @dressrosaa (Art)
Holy fucking hell. It really is him. “Eliot,” he repeats, mouth hanging open as he registers the radiant white robes, a shimmering pattern of gold vines twisting and cracking across the diaphanous fabric like lightning. What the fuck is he wearing? He looks like—like a—
“You—you’re a—” Quentin’s eyes snap shut, as though reality might reshape itself into something that actually makes any fucking sense when he opens them. Nope. No such luck. “You’re a priest.”
Silence stretches a chasm between them until, finally: “I’m not a priest.”
(After surviving the monster, Quentin and Eliot drifted apart. Five years later, Quentin ventures into the Fillorian wilderness to find his old friend.)
time won’t fly by @prettyboysdontlookatexplosions, @yourtinseltinkerbell (Art: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
Between slipping grades and an explosive break-up, Quentin's first year at Brakebills was coming to a miserable close—and that was before the Beast attacked. Now everyone's cancelling their summer plans to join in the fight against an existential threat, Fillory is both real and much deadlier than in the books, and it turns out Quentin sucks as much at battle magic as he does at everything else. As the war drags on, dying in battle starts to seem like the best possible outcome, the answer to all his problems: one shining moment of glory, and then he's finally free. It's a foolproof plan—until he wakes up and has to do it all over again.
(Or: An action movie about wanting to die, with time loops.)