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fearfully and wonderfully made by frostbittenradicals
Fandoms: Masters of the Air (TV 2024)
15 Apr 2025
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Summary
In the course of a single day, John Brady receives the career-ending news that he is both intersex and four months pregnant in the middle of a war. His refusal to terminate on religious grounds begins five months of a difficult, life-threatening pregnancy and a drift away from other people as he experiences a newly alien body, all while the English medical system strips him of the autonomy he was once afforded—back when doctors saw him as entirely male—in degrees.
As he increasingly leans on his Catholicism to cope with the horrors of his situation, profound isolation in an unfamiliar city, separation from the man he is in love with, and estrangement from his own body, John becomes more and more fixated on the story of the Virgin Mary and the idea of divinely ordained pregnancy until their identities begin to bleed together at the edges.
Heavy subject matter, heed warnings. Dead dove; do not eat!