Equillibrium Ficlet

[aramuin]

Title: Revelations.
Fandom: Equillbrium.
Pairing: John Preston/Errol Partridge.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine, I do but play with them.
Summary: A year on, Preston learns some of the Undergound's secrets. Set after the film, so here be spoilers.

Dedication: To deannawol, in the hopes it brightens the Monday morning after Con. *hugs*

Comments

[deannawol]

It took two readings to finish due to the (semi-nice) guy that has been assigned to look over my shoulder for the coming days until Remo can tell him what to do ...

However, I really wanted to get back to this.

Trying to think of words here ... Well first off I loved it.

The assertation that prozium failed due to baser emotion taking over is so fitting, emotions like jealously, pride, anger and lust are the strongest to suppress due to the sheer depth of them. The fact that the clerics weren't perfect, not even the ones that are the best, they were people but still they were the nearest step to perfection in Father's dream. Why Partridge got involved with the resistance and the reason he was willing to sacrifice himself for the cause and his embrace of the deepest emotion of all even if the words weren't there...

Perfect hon! Truly remarkable!

[aramuin]

Glad you liked hon. ^_^

This was one of those tribbles that just got away from me. It started as a Jurgen-centric piece but a lot of the stuff (i.e. the flashbacks) didn't really strike me as the sort of thing Preston would be likely to talk about - particularly to someone with such an ambiguous status in his life.

Not that I see Preston as a heart on sleeve type anyway...

So the idea of the Son was born from the Dupont-OBVIOUSLY-knew-Errol-was-rogue idea. So why didn't he take Partridge out personally? They were same age, roughly same physical condition (based on how Errol looked and how Dupont fought) and Errol was 'just' a Clerick.

This made me wonder about things and this results.

[deannawol]

Maybe he didn't take him out because it was a test. Maybe he couldn't get his hands dirty because of both of his statuses within the Tetragrammiton. Once one goes looking for holes, one usually finds some.

For some of us, merely rewatching Partridge is enough :P

That said, it was an excellent fic :)

[aramuin]

I keep meaning to reply to this and not getting around to it.

My 'read' of Dupont's character sugguested he was at best un-nerved by Errol. He's a manipulator and I think the choice of using Preston against Errol was two-fold, it showed the power he had over Preston and that that power was greater than any friendship or companionship Preston felt for Errol.

I also see Dupont as a coward - he let everyone else face Preston first - considering he proved to be a match for Preston, even if only for thirty seconds. Had he attacked with the Clericks or with Brandt then Preston would have been in much more trouble.

With that in mind, the idea that Errol might have been a contempary of his who chose to forfeit a higher position became intriguing