"Ardhanarishvara" by Auburn and Monanotlisa (mature)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Team
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Evan Lorne, Radek Zelenka, Steven Caldwell
Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex/John Sheppard, Rodney McKay/Ronon Dex
Categories: Slash, Het, Action/Adventure, Drama, Angst, Alternate Universe - Gender Change
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence
Author on LJ: auburnnothenna monanotlisa
Author on DW: auburn monanotlisa

Author's Website: Allusions: Fiction by Auburn

Both authors are also on AO3 under the same handles

Link: Ardhanarishvara

Summary by the author: "Tell me, Colonel, did you take a look around and think, hey, it's the Planet of Sex Changes?"


Why This Must Be Read:

The team meets a technologically advanced people and, as a test, they're subjected to a genderswitch with the option of changing back after six month.

It's exactly what it says on the tin: action, adventure, drama, angst - it's an intriguing story that explores personal issues, team-dynamics, team-relations and gender-related aspects of culture and society in Pegasus.

And since it's Auburn, you know the writing is top.

A small warning since I know that some of us are wary of surprises. Nobody dies and everybody is happy in the and but if Ronon is your favorite character you should perhaps take a look at the end first.


"Elizabeth." Sheppard waves at Ronon and Teyla. "We've run into a little...snag."

Yes, right, like that couldn't preface every single post-mission conference.

Elizabeth is just looking at them, her gaze cycling between Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon, then quickly checking Rodney, then back to the three changed members of the team. She looks dumbfounded. "Snag," she echoes, then pulls herself together visibly.

Sometimes Rodney marvels at the other team members' talent for stating the obvious; even if gossip in Atlantis didn't travel at the speed of light – which it does, Radek and Simpson ran the tests — even a blind man couldn't miss the fact that Teyla's a five-foot-something prettyboy with high cheekbones and searing eyes, Ronon looks like she could enter the Miss World and an international female wrestling competition — win them both with her hands tied behind her back, in fact – and that Sheppard, for all her undisputed charm and appealing exterior, has never been quite this lovely, all tousled hair, big eyes, and a sulky expression.

"As soon as I heard you went straight to the jumper bay and wanted to see me, I came over. What happened?" Elizabeth is frowning, shock giving way to concern. "Do any of you – I should call Carson?"

Sheppard shakes her head "Wait. We're, well, we're mostly okay. Just..." She gestures at herself, Ronon and Teyla. "This."

To her credit, Elizabeth doesn't do much more than blink this time.