Three Brothers by friendshipper (PG)

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Rec Category: Teyla Emmagan
Pairing: None
Category: AU, gen, team
Warning: None
Author on LJ: friendshipper
Author's Website: http://friendshipper.laylalawlor.com/
Link: Three Brothers

Why This Must Be Read:

Written for the team_sga au fest a couple of months back, this is fantastic team-centric gen. Except the team are teenagers growing up in Pegasus – Teyla as a young Athosian, and Rodney, John and Ronon as fosterlings sent from their worlds to spend their adolescence on Athos with Teyla’s family as ‘brothers she doesn’t want.’

Friendshipper captures all four team members brilliantly – they’re so like themselves despite the age gap and the change in setting – as well as writing them as really believable teenagers who’ve been sent somewhere they don’t want to be. I’m a huge fan of Pegasus-au’s anyway, and this one has so many really cool ideas about Athos and Pegasus and how the galaxy works without the expedition or the immediate threat of the Wraith, all seen through Teyla’s eyes as a young woman who is so clearly going to grow into the Teyla we see on screen.