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Know Thyself For What Thou Art by X-parrot (PG-13)
The last Rodney&Ronon rec for this year. I hope you enjoyed them!
Show: Stargate Atlantis
Rec Category: Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex Friendship
Characters: Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warning: mentions enzyme addiction, dark themes
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xparrot
Author's Website: X Never Marks the Spot,
Link: Know Thyself for What Thou Art
Why this must be read:
It´s interesting that many Rodney&Ronon friendship fics are from Ronon´s POV. "Know Thyself for What Thou Art" is another one with a great Ronon voice – great voices for everyone, really.
In this tag for "Broken Ties" Rodney reminds a deeply ashamed Ronon of Rodney´s own experience with an enzyme overdose. I love how their friendship helps them both deal with what happened to them.
It's not that McKay's going to blame him. McKay's a scientist, and he's talked to Keller; maybe he makes air quotes when he says, "the science of medicine", but he believes in it, in the end, so he'll know scientifically that it wasn't Ronon's fault.
But Rodney can remember what other people forget—doesn't forget what other people can't remember, numbers and the courses of stars in the skies. True things. And he knows now as well as Ronon, what kind of man Ronon is.
McKay's on the short side, and not that tough, and not that fast; but he's smart enough to make up for all of that, and knows it, and he never once backed down from Ronon, not from the beginning, when he was dangling in the snare in that night forest. You can scare McKay, because he's smart enough to know when he can die; but you can't intimidate him. A lot of the people on Atlantis hesitated to talk to Ronon, early on, would stammer and stare and look mortified when they mentioned the Wraith by mistake around him, but McKay never did that. From the first, he never was scared of Ronon.
But McKay knows now what kind of man Ronon can be. And Ronon doesn't want to see McKay looking at him, knowing that he's a man who would kill a friend to get what he wants, what he needs.
But he doesn't want to be a coward even more than that, so he goes into the lab.
Show: Stargate Atlantis
Rec Category: Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex Friendship
Characters: Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warning: mentions enzyme addiction, dark themes
Author on LJ:
xparrotAuthor's Website: X Never Marks the Spot,
Link: Know Thyself for What Thou Art
Why this must be read:
It´s interesting that many Rodney&Ronon friendship fics are from Ronon´s POV. "Know Thyself for What Thou Art" is another one with a great Ronon voice – great voices for everyone, really.
In this tag for "Broken Ties" Rodney reminds a deeply ashamed Ronon of Rodney´s own experience with an enzyme overdose. I love how their friendship helps them both deal with what happened to them.
It's not that McKay's going to blame him. McKay's a scientist, and he's talked to Keller; maybe he makes air quotes when he says, "the science of medicine", but he believes in it, in the end, so he'll know scientifically that it wasn't Ronon's fault.
But Rodney can remember what other people forget—doesn't forget what other people can't remember, numbers and the courses of stars in the skies. True things. And he knows now as well as Ronon, what kind of man Ronon is.
McKay's on the short side, and not that tough, and not that fast; but he's smart enough to make up for all of that, and knows it, and he never once backed down from Ronon, not from the beginning, when he was dangling in the snare in that night forest. You can scare McKay, because he's smart enough to know when he can die; but you can't intimidate him. A lot of the people on Atlantis hesitated to talk to Ronon, early on, would stammer and stare and look mortified when they mentioned the Wraith by mistake around him, but McKay never did that. From the first, he never was scared of Ronon.
But McKay knows now what kind of man Ronon can be. And Ronon doesn't want to see McKay looking at him, knowing that he's a man who would kill a friend to get what he wants, what he needs.
But he doesn't want to be a coward even more than that, so he goes into the lab.