Ficlet: Monsters

Jul 08, 2014 21:16



I’m way behind in posting my fan_flashworks challenge fics to my journals, so here’s the first, which also happens to be the only Torchwood one.

Title: Monsters

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Jack, mentions Torchwood

Rating: G

Word Count: 364

Spoilers: Mostly small ones for Day One, Small Worlds, Something Borrowed and bigger ones for Meat.

Summary: Which monsters are ( Read more... )

fic, angst, fic: episode coda, jack harkness, team, torchwood fic, fic: one-shot, fan_flashworks, fic: g

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milady_dragon July 9 2014, 00:27:13 UTC
Oh, that was just great. Jack really is selfless in that he makes all those choices so others don't have to. He's not a monster, despite what Ianto once called him: he's actually the most human person in Torchwood, if you really think about it.

Jack didn't need Gwen to show him his humanity; he was already on intimate terms with it and didn't even realize it.

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badly_knitted July 9 2014, 10:24:46 UTC
The problem is, because of the way other people react to the things Jack is forced to do, he sees HIMSELF as a monster. People tell you you're a monster often enough, you're gonna start believing they must be right.

I was reading Cry of the Space Whale when I wrote this, so that's where my inspiration came from. Thank you!

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too_beauty July 9 2014, 02:47:06 UTC
I really love the way you describe Jack's insight about the subject, he really had a hard choice to make!

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badly_knitted July 9 2014, 10:26:16 UTC
He really did. He knew people would think him a monster no matter what he did. Poor Jack.

Thank you!

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bluelilacs July 9 2014, 05:25:11 UTC
Jack was always the one who had to make the difficult decisions, because he had to, because the others couldn't and wouldn't. He was the one who faced the others' wrath for the "choices" he had to make. Sometimes being in charge had to truly suck.

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badly_knitted July 9 2014, 10:29:53 UTC
Being in charge means all the worst decisions fall into his lap, he can't shove them off on someone higher up the chain of command because there really isn't anyone. People say he's a monster and he can't disagree because he thinks they're right. A lot of the choices he has to make are monstrous, but NOT making them would have even worse results.

Thank you!

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red_day_dawning July 9 2014, 05:49:29 UTC
It's so easy to blame the person who makes the hard choices. But Jack's no monster, he's just the one that has to make those choices. I hate Gwen's "you've forgotten how to be human" crap. You show how it is to be Jack.

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badly_knitted July 9 2014, 10:37:24 UTC
Thank you!

Gwen coasts along, having it easy because no one expects her to make the kinds of choices Jack can't avoid making. It's got to the point where Jack has become convinced that he IS a monster. People have told him he is for years, surely they can't all be wrong? He certainly FEELS like a monster.

We know that he's not, he's just doing what HAS to be done - if he didn't, the consequences would be so much worse. Gwen just thinks everything will work out fine because she's too naive to understand that they can't always save everyone, sometimes there are no good choices, all Jack can do is decide which choice would result in the fewest deaths.

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owensheart July 9 2014, 10:17:24 UTC
Unfortunately humans are the really bad monsters and thats sad.

great story.

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badly_knitted July 9 2014, 13:28:21 UTC
We have more to fear from each other than we do from aliens.

Thank you!

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