A Most Brilliant Dance
A lot of truths have been universally acknowledged. A Pride and Prejudice AU.
A lot of truths have been universally acknowledged. A Pride and Prejudice AU.
Jane Austen AU. There’s a wedding, heartache and matchmaking, and it all happens in the 19th century England. It all made perfect sense in my head.
[STXI AU of Jane Austen’s classic, Pride and Prejudice] Vivacious Jim is fascinated and repelled by the arrogant Mr. Spock, whose condescending airs and acrid tongue have alienated Jim’s entire family. The romantic clash of these two opinionated young people occurs on an Earth long-settled by Vulcans, whose elite, logic-minded race comprises the top of the social hierarchy. Jim and Spock find themselves in a spirited courtship that challenges their beliefs about themselves and the world they live in.
"It is a fashion -- perhaps not one out of Town, I do not know, but it sweeps through young ladies and even our mothers are not immune to it!"
Lizzie Bennet -- handsome, clever, and rich -- seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence, yet she had lived twenty-one years in the world feeling a near-constant sensation of distress and vexation.
Elizabeth’s reality is far different from her sisters’.
It was a well-known fact that Mr. Dashwood, of note for having come nearer the South Pole than any other man in Boston (and then for having come to write about it most thrillingly), had some queer ways about him.
“Elinor – do you think it could be real – that he could – that he might be a magician?” “His speech is rather rough, dearest. More likely he is a day-labourer from the North.”
"Elizabeth’s reality is far different from her sisters’."
He dueled him for many a long minute, and then trapping him at the end of a gantry, removed his hand from his wrist. Luke was surprised, but said not a word beyond his cry of pain. After a silence of several minutes, Vader came towards him in an agitated manner, and thus began,
The idea and general outline are based very, very loosely on the idea of Pride and Prejudice, but you won't find very much of that story here. It does, however, mean there are two couples, and at least one misunderstanding. "Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" — Pride and Prejudice