Wednesday and the Weeping Angel (short story)
Wednesday and the Weeping Angel was a short story written by Bastian in 2023. A fan fiction, it crossed over the Netflix series Wednesday with the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. It was the first story of a trilogy called Strange Encounters, the third entry of which featured Jenny Everywhere.
Contents
Plot
Wednesday Addams is walking in the woods near Nevermore Academy when she encounters a statue of an angel with its head in its hands. When she walks away from it, the statue moves. Wednesday backs into a tree, causing her to blink and the statue moves again, its hands reaching toward her. Suddenly frightened, Wednesday is at a loss as to how to escape the angel when she hears her teacher Ms Thornhill approaching. Wednesday warns her away, only to discover that the angel has vanished. She later sneaks into the Nightshades' library and reads about the creature she encountered: a Weeping Angel.
Worldbuilding
Universes
- This story takes place in the main Strange Encounters universe, which includes canon-compliant elements of both the Doctor Who and Wednesday series.
Wednesday Addams
- Wednesday Addams is a student at Nevermore Academy. She likes talking long walks in the woods to get away from the drama of her life. She rarely blinks. She is working on a novel about a protagonist named Viper.
Other
- Ms. Thornhill is one of Wednesday's teachers and wears red boots.
- A Weeping Angel kills its victims by sending them into the past and feeding on the energy of the life they would have lived in the present. It cannot move when observed by a living being.
- Wednesday mentions Joseph Crackstone.
Continuity
- This story's events were followed upon in PROSE: Wednesday and the Doctor.
Behind the scenes
Background
The story was inspired by the fact that Jenna Ortega's Wednesday rarely blinks. It is set in between episodes 3 and 4 of the first season of Wednesday.
The author struggled to come up with a resolution before settling on the irony of Wednesday being saved by Thornhill, who was ultimately revealed as the villain of the series.
Read online
The story can be read online on ArchiveOfOurOwn.org.
