Memory Circuits, by Basingstoke

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this is me beginning to chip away at my six-rec deficit. thanks to darththalia and all the rest of y'all for your patience with my summer of complete insanity.

Title: Memory Circuits
Author: Basingstoke
Rating: i'd call it G.
Pairing: R2-D2/C-3PO, which i'm hoping is acceptable on the technicality that they were, after all, both in TPM.
Warnings: None. (Author's warning: "I will give you no warning.")
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Author's e-mail, web site and/or LJ id: e-mail: bas @ yosa . com ; website: http://www.ravenswing.com/~bas/ ; LJ id: basingstoke
Link to story: http://www.ravenswing.com/~bas/slash/circuit.html
Reasons for recommending: This is actually one of a series, which if I remember correctly bas began partly on a lark (with "Parts", also at her site) and partly as a sort of act of rebellion against the oppressive OTP-ness that was, trust me, more a feature of this fandom then than now -- and then continued because, as she points out, "droids need love too." I had some things to say when AotC came out about how the droids' storyline ran sort of parallel to the humans' storyline, in an almost Shakespearean sense, and compared R2-D2 to Puck; this story is the best (the only!) thing I've seen that treats the droids as characters rather than devices, and I adore it.

Quote from story: "The Old Republic. I can't even imagine what that was like." The boy looked misty.

Well, the fields were green and the clouds were white and the stars weren't hidden by the husks of burnt-out battleships. The clothes were fancier and the security was lighter and the computers had some damn respect, and so did the people, but R2D2 didn't tell the kid that.

Instead he said, "I'm just a droid, what do I know about government," and he turned and joined C3PO in the oil room.