Gargoyles Fic - Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind

Title: Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind
Fandom: Gargoyles
Relationships: Alex Xanatos & Owen Burnett, Owen Burnett/David Xanatos, David Xanatos/Fox Xanatos
Word count: 48,336
Rating: T
Tags: Future Fic, Flashbacks, Canon Compliant, mostly anyway, POV Multiple, Canon-Typical Violence, Kidnapping, Unconventional Families, Polyamorous David Xanatos, Minor Angela/Broadway, Minor Goliath/Elisa Maza, Family Feels, 37 Headcanons in a Trenchcoat, Oberon gets punched in the face, a lot, let's be real he fucking deserves it

Summary: In which Alex Xanatos finds out just what Owen gave up to stay with them and decides he's going to fix it.

Even if it means going up against Oberon himself.

Read it on AO3!

So back in February, when painted originally finished watching Gargoyles for the first time and had murdered me with feels from her fics before I'd ever seen a single minute of the show, one of the things we discussed was Alex undoing Oberon's punishment on Puck when he was old enough and strong enough. I loved this idea more than words could say, and I figured "Hey, that'll probably be a short little one-shot, like maybe 3k-6k, I can do it after I actually watch the series."

And then I started outlining the fic and thought "oh...maybe 10-15k." And then I started writing the fic and realized, no, there was not a way in hell I was getting out of this in under forty thousand words because do you know how many feelings I have about the Xanatos family in general and Alex and Owen in particular?

(Well, you will, because I put 90% of them into this story right here.)

I'm just lucky it stayed under 50k, in all honesty.

Couple of other notes:

1) As in my other fics and based on painted's fics, Xanatos is poly and he and Fox have an open relationship.

2) Since this is basically a sequel to painted's series Then Fate O'errules, Owen has Alex heal his stone hand when he's about eighteen months old. So pre-1998, Owen has the stone hand; after that, he doesn't.

3) The working title of this fic was "Hey Oberon Fuck You" and I feel like that tells you everything you need to know about my state of mind while writing it. The actual title comes from A Midsummer Night's Dream, like 90% of my Gargoyles fic titles.

I hope you all enjoy!