Passion & Profession

Passion & Profession is a Marcus/St John Rivers Historical AU crossover by demon_rum, featuring characters from The Eagle and Jane Eyre. It was originally written for the_eagle_kink on LiveJournal and posted anonymously to the meme.Anonymous. Fill: Passion & Profession, 10 May 2011 - 14 October 2011. (Accessed 10 January 2013) The author later self-published an edited and expanded version of the story as a paperback book to gift to her LJ friends, and posted the updated version to LiveJournal and AO3.demon_rum. Fic: Passion & Profession - Master Post, 21 November 2011. (Accessed 10 January 2013)
Summary: "The continuing adventures of St. John Rivers in Calcutta."
==Background==
Passion & Profession is a crossover between two specific movies, The Eagle and the 2011 remake of Jane Eyre. The Eagle, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's children's book The Eagle of the Ninth, is set in 2nd century Romano-Britain and is the story of a young Roman centurion, Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing Tatum) and his British slave, Esca (Jamie Bell). In the 2011 release of the movie Jane Eyre, the secondary character of the Reverend St John Rivers is also played by Jamie Bell. What the author essentially does in Passion & Profession, is to crossover Jamie Bell's portrayal of St John with a 19th century version of Channing Tatum's Marcus, making use of each as the basis for both characterization and physical descriptions.
Written from St John's point of view, the story begins in 1840 directly after the conclusion of events in Jane Eyre, with St John traveling to Calcutta where he intends to become a missionary. On his first day there he meets Captain Marcus Aquilaine, of the East India Army infantry, and the two become friends, and then lovers. St John is a devoutly religious man and has great difficulty accepting his homosexuality and his attraction to Marcus, resulting in much of the story's dramatic tension.
The story includes a secondary character from The Eagle, real historical figures, as well as original characters, set against a backdrop of 19th century British colonial India, all of which brings the story to life by adding depth and color. The author thoughtfully includes copious story notes linking to a substantial appendix providing historical and cultural background information to assist the interested reader with context, and is an indication of the degree of research that went into writing it.
demon_rum continues Charlotte Brontë's conceit of utilizing a narrator, though rather than the protagonist, St John, it is the author herself, who is telling the story, most noticeably in the story notes. The narrative style is based on the British English spoken in the mid-19th century, though it is loosely employed more to set the tone than to be a perfect rendition, and there are a few anachronisms here and there.
The original story in the kink_meme was betaed by chikatai. In 2011, demon_rum decided to self-publish the story as a paperback book at her own expense, which she gave away to LJ friends. In preparing for publication, she worked closely with Amanda Warrington to edit and expand the story, and with motetus who created a number of pieces of art which are embedded in both the LJ and AO3 versions. The author included the following note:
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==References==
Category:Crossover Fanfiction
Category:Slash Fanfiction
Category:The Eagle Fanfiction
Category:Jane Eyre
Category:2011 Fanfiction‎