B2MEM Challenge: Bingo 2012 - AU Lives/Dies G51
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Warning: N/A
Characters: Aragorn (Estel), Gilraen
Pairings: Arathorn II/Gilraen
Creator's Notes: In my Arnorverse (including, but not limited to “Isildurchil Dithen”), the Muse settled on using the “Iroquois kinship system” for the Northern Dúnedain. Parallel siblings of one’s mother and father (i.e. mother’s sister, father’s brother) are called ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Parallel cousins (children of parents’ parallel siblings – gender of cousin doesn’t matter) are treated as siblings. Only parents’ opposite-gendered siblings are ‘uncle’ and ‘aunt’, and their children are ‘cousins’. I may have to do some rewriting to reflect this, but hopefully it hasn’t been important enough before now to require serious revision.
Summary: In Gilraen’s room, in Imladris, sometimes it’s easy to forget that Estel isn’t to know who he is. Gilraen can’t resist telling him a little bit about home. For G51, “Arathorn father of Aragorn never dies.” I decided he was poisoned by the arrow wound instead, rendered comatose, and all three of them were brought to Imladris for protection.



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