Otter's Rock

Title: Solivagant
Author: Beatrice Otter
Fandom: Classic Hollywood RPF/Star Trek
Betaed By: Karios
AN: I love old musicals, and way back in 2013 I watched the end of The Band Wagon and noticed that in the song "That's Entertainment" when they sing the line "is the art/that appeals to the heart" and Cyd is supposed to put her hand on her heart … she puts it on her side, about where a Vulcan's heart would be. That was enough for this plot bunny, which I have had languishing on my hard drive ever since. I finally decided to polish it up and post it, and here it is.

Summary: The chain of events that had led a Vulcan woman to Earth, alone, crashed on an alien world light-years out of her way, was quite improbable. But statistics said that even improbable things must happen sometime. Or, the one where Hollywood star Cyd Charisse was a Vulcan.

On AO3. On tumblr.

( T'Lasid held herself very still in her crash couch for almost eight full minutes before removing her harness and standing up. )

I just watched the end of The Bandwagon on TCM. And noticed that when Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire are singing the line in "That's Entertainment" that goes "It's the art that appeals to the heart!" and she puts her hand (presumably) where her heart is supposed to be? She doesn't put her hand on her chest, she puts it on her side. Just about where a Vulcan's heart would be, no?  So now I want Hollywood RPF fic where Cyd Charisse, the glamorous, dignified, and reserved* Hollywood star is a Vulcan stranded on Earth.

*Her biggest role was reprising Greta Garbo's role in Silk Stockings, which was a remake of Ninotchka.  And another one of her big roles was in Singin' In the Rain, in which she was the mysterious brunette in the Broadway Melody sequence (you may remember her in a green dress dancing with Gene Kelly?)