Fic: La Luna del Cacciatore (Alien vs Predator)

[jedibuttercup]

PG-13; AvP, 2000 words. Fic #2 for Yuletide 2010.

Fittingly, it's another hunter's moon when Alexa Woods' life tilts on its axis for the second time.

La Luna del Cacciatore

(Linked @ the AO3 Yuletide archive; written for tasteandtrash)

Comments

[vicki_rae.livejournal.com]

Sort of squinted through my fingers when I clicked on the link but this is a wonderful!

I've not seen any of the movies but have read the trilogy featuring Noguchi. I gather the movies were set on Earth and Alexa was inspired by Noguchi? This is a really nice charactor study.

ETA: changed the icon from my default

[jedibuttercup]

Glad you enjoyed the story even if you haven't seen the movies!

.... Actually, I didn't know there was a book trilogy? I may have to add them to my list. =) Alexa is my favorite character from the movie series, and I'd love to see what the book version is like.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

The first of the trilogy - 'Prey', by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry - is mindblowingly superb. A hundred thousand times better than the movie. The central characters, Machiko Noguchi the human and Dachande (Broken Tusk) the veteran warrior Predator, are obviously the inspirations for Alexa and Scar but are much more three-dimensional characters and the friendship and respect that grows between them is hugely moving.

And it ends with Noguchi going off with the Predators.

Unfortunately the second novel, 'Hunter's Planet', was written by someone else, David F. Bischoff, and it isn't very good at all. It portrays the Yautja (Predators) as treacherous and dishonourable, ignoring everything shown in P1, P2, and Prey, and really doesn't seem to belong to the same universe.

The third, 'War', is written by Stephani Perry, is set between 'Prey' and 'Hunter's Planet', and might well be good but I haven't read it.

There is an error in your story at one point - you say 'within the Arctic Circle' when you mean Antarctic Circle.

I liked the story a lot although the happy ending doesn't fit with the canon ending of the movie.

[jedibuttercup]

D'oh; typo. Thanks for catching that; I'll fix it.

My first AvP story took the movie ending into account; this one didn't primarily because that was what the requester specifically asked for. Glad you enjoyed it, though!

I'll definitely have to check out the first of the books, then. Thanks for the details.

[vicki_rae.livejournal.com]

#1 Prey by Steve Perry & Stephani Perry is wonderful and I highly recomend it.

#3 War is by S.D. Perry (I this was just Stephani Perry) and it's the second book chronologically. It's the time Machiko Noguchi spent with the Predators and it's decently written but Perry didn't convince me that she would have gone with them, or stayed with them as long as she did.

#2 Hunter's Planet is by David Bischoff and it sucks dead toads.