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Rec Category: Teal'c
Characters: Teal'c, Drey'auc, Ry'ac
Categories: character study, pre-series
Pairings: Teal'c/Drey'auc
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

yvi
Author's Website: Yvi at AO3
Link: One Day

Why This Must Be Read: Here is a lovely snapshot of time: Teal'c, in the days before COTG, sharing a meal with wife and son. I love the careful dance that Teal'c and Drey'auc follow, speaking to Ry'ac about fellow Jaffa without ever stepping over the line. Beautifully done.

Teal'c remembered how life had been like when his father had been Cronus' First Prime. The memories of his death were painful, but they had also taught him a valuable lesson about the people on the other side of his weapon.

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: five things, Teal'c, character study, friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

iawenbemerry
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Places on Earth

Why This Must Be Read: I love stories about Teal'c discovering and exploring the more bizarre aspects of Earth. In this five things, there's an added touch of poignancy as Teal'c not only considers the Tau'ri experience, but also hopes to share the wonders of Earth with Ry'ac.

Teal'c doesn't get much of a chance to be a father on the show. Iawenbemerry offers us a glimpse of the man who wants his son to experience the joys and wonders of the world.

Only Daniel seemed to understand, for he nodded with a slight smile. “One day, the Jaffa will be free,” Daniel said assuredly.

“Just as the Tau’ri are now free,” Teal’c returned. “I want Ry’ac to know that it is possible.”

Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: episode related, Drey'auc, Ry'ac, angst, drama
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

penknife
Author's Website: Penknife at AO3
Link: Widow's Walk

Why This Must Be Read: Did you ever stop to think what happened to Drey'auc when Teal'c first fired on his own people and then fled Chulak with the Tau'ri?

Penknife does it here for us in sharp, agonizing intensity -- the shock, the disbelief, the sudden tilt of the planet on its axis. Powerfully, wrenchingly good.

"Did you know? Did he tell you what he meant to do, your traitor of a husband?"

Rec Category:Teal'c
Categories: Teal'c, Ry'ac, team, humor, drama
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

hsapiens
Author's Website: my graphics journal
Link: Jaffa and Son

Why This Must Be Read: Here is some old-school team sweetness, as Teal'c rescues Ry'ac from an adventure gone wrong with the help of SG-1. There's Teal'c's dubious sense of humor, the team's inadvertent contribution to certain mistakes, and Ry'ac standing strong and proud at the end of it all. This story is sheer joy and a pleasure to read!

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Rec Category: Futurefic
Pairing none
Categories: futurefic, gen, Teal'c, Ry'ac
Warnings: none (but see below)
Author on LJ:

mrspollifax
Author's Website: My FFN Page
Link: Cornerstone

Why This Must Be Read: Join Ry'ac, some time in the distant future, in a celebration of life: Teal'c's journey and victory, and the Jaffa who leapt from slavery to independence in the span of a lifetime. And as Ry'ac rejoins the Jaffa after spending a decade on Earth - at his father's side in his declining years, when he'd outlived his Tau'ri friends - there is also the pride in his people when he looks upon them with fresh eyes: their endurance, their triumph, and their future.

Thoughtful, eloquent, and elegant, this lovely ficlet is a tribute to what we all want the Jaffa to become, as a legacy to the people we love who labored to make it happen.

Jaffa built from stone.

He'd spent so long amidst the modern steel and glass and concrete of the Tau'ri that he had nearly forgotten.

Rec Category: Episode related
Pairing: none
Categories: episode related, Teal'c, gen, character study, angst, Ry'ac
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

annienau08
Author's Website: unknown
Link: N is for Naquadah

Why This Must Be Read: Annienau gives us marvelous, poignant insight into early S1 Teal'c, as he grapples with loss of culture, loss of faith, loss of identity, and even loss of self. Here is the reason he so desperately tries to stop Ry'ac from taking a symbiote in Bloodlines, and why he made the wrenching decision to leave him behind. It's written with beautifully aching depth, and it's a fitting tribute to our favorite Jaffa and the sacrifices he made... for the Tau'ri, for his people, and for himself.

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Rec Category: Bra'tac
Pairing: none
Categories: Bra'tac, Ry'ac, Drey'auc, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

redbyrd_sgfic
Author's Website: Redbyrd's Stargate Fic
Link: First Lessons

Why This Must Be Read: This engaging story was inspired by discussion at

redial_the_gate over the decision to leave Drey'auc and Ry'ac behind in Bloodlines, when Hammond had specifically instructed SG-1 to bring them back to Earth. ...Okay, it was mostly inspired by my complaint that Ry'ac was more of a plot device than a character. Do you think I'm complaining that I got Redbyrd fic out of it? :)

The story is initially about Ry'ac and his childish understanding of events, and it's a joy to read about Drey'auc's fiery determination and Ry'ac's perception of the Jaffa and the Tau'ri. But as I commented when Redbyrd first wrote this, Bra'tac shamelessly steals the limelight the moment he appears in the fic, as we get a delightful peek at the methods of the man who carefully, skillfully trained Teal'c - not just as a warrior, but as the leader of the rebellion.

First Lessons is nice backstory in a missing scene, written with Redbyrd's usual attention to detail and canon. And it's got great Bra'tac, being awesome as usual. What more could you want?

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Rec Category: Teamy goodness

Pairing: see below
Categories: team, friendship, futurefic, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal’c, Jack O’Neill, Vala, Cameron Mitchell, Cassie
Warnings: canon character deaths (mostly off-screen, and of old age)
Author on LJ: niamaea
Author's Website: unknown
Link: A Million Years Into the Sky

Why This Must Be Read: Full disclaimer: I got to beta this. Lucky, lucky me. :)

Niamaea is one of the founders of sg1_ever_after, a relatively new community about giving SG-1 happy endings. This amazing fic offers a heartbreakingly beautiful look at that happy ending, as Niamaea provides us with a universe that cares for her children and the long, gentle journey that the members of SG-1 take, one by one, to get there.

The first part of the story is told from Sam’s POV; the second, from Teal’c’s, in one of the most stunning characterizations I’ve ever seen for our beloved Jaffa. The entire fic is chock-full of fantastic insights: Sam’s epiphany into how Jack and Daniel’s personalities complete one another. The team’s careful manipulations to ensure that Daniel is “remembered to history for his life,” and not how he died, because that’s what he would have wanted most. Teal’c watching, from the perspective of his longer lifespan, as one by one, his teammates slip away – complete, and in peace. (And Teal’c’s choice for his third grandchild’s name brought tears to my eyes.)

While I would strongly call this fic gen, I didn’t add that to the categories, because it does include some mention of pairings peripherally – Ry’ac and Ka’ryn, for example. And Sam’s marriage to a teammate. But while the pairings are there, they are not the main import of the story – the quiet future, and the universe’s kindness, are what really matter.

“Shal’kek nem’ron,” he says.

Daniel shakes his head and corrects him. “You lived free, Teal’c.”

It was difficult to choose a snippet for this, as much of the story is snapshots of events that span decades of time. I know this rec is longer than usual, but this story richly deserves it. Go read it, slowly, and savor.

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Rec Category: AU

Pairing: none
Categories: AU, futurefic, Teal'c, gen, drama, character study
Warnings: deaths of minor canon character
Author on LJ: katie_m
Author's Website: Katie's Stargate SG-1 Fanfic
Link: Almost a Statesman

Why This Must Be Read: Because there are way too many of us that wish that this wasn't in the AU category, and think that the Jaffa deserved a better storyline than the one they got slapped with in S9-10.

The story diverges from canon sometime towards the beginning of S7 – most specifically, Death Knell never happened, and the Jaffa remained at the Alpha Site. Written intelligently from the POV of Ry'ac, this is the story of "Teal'c of the Tau'ri" – with both the positive and negative connotations abscribed to that nomenclature. The fic draws us a picture equally based in hope and realism, as the Jaffa, new to this strange, wonderful thing called "freedom," stumble along the path towards a brighter future.

Teal'c, as percieved by his son, is simply awesome. The cameos from the rest of SG-1 are wonderfully in character, as are the minor canon characters, like Rak'nor and Ry'ac, and some excellently drawn original ones. This is what I imagined Teal'c would become, once the Jaffa won their freedom – and despite SG-1's temporary loss, I only wish the Jaffa would have had him as their gain.

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One Day, by Yvi (PG)
Places on Earth, by Iawenbemerry (PG)
Widow's Walk, by Penknife (PG)
Jaffa and Son, by Mish (G)
Cornerstone, by Mrspollifax (G)
N is for Naquadah, by Annienau (PG)
First Lessons, by Redbyrd (G)
A Million Years Into the Sky, by Niamaea (PG)
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Entries tagged with character: ry'ac

One Day, by Yvi (PG)

Places on Earth, by Iawenbemerry (PG)

Widow's Walk, by Penknife (PG)

Jaffa and Son, by Mish (G)

Cornerstone, by Mrspollifax (G)

N is for Naquadah, by Annienau (PG)

First Lessons, by Redbyrd (G)

A Million Years Into the Sky, by Niamaea (PG)

Almost a Statesman, by KatieM (PG)

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