Heroes Fic: The Persistance of Memory (The Dragon Slayer Remix)

[brighteyed_jill]

Ooo, look! Today's reveal day for Remix Redux! I had so much to choose from from my assignment, mumblemutter, because there was both Heroes and Trek fic! I'm so spoiled! Anyway, this is the first Heroes I've wrote in a while... Since my hope_in_sight fic for perdiccas, in fact! Nice to revisit my boys.

Title: The Persistence of Memory (The Dragon-Slayer Remix)
Pairing: Sylar/

Comments

[rtwofan]

Holy lord. This was fucking amazing. I...literally have been weeping at how people in Petlar just don't get it anymore and you GOT IT SO HARD AND I'M FLAILING, BECAUSE NOW I KNOW MY SHIP ISN'T DEAD <3 I adored, adored, the lack of sugarcoating in their relationship, there's no magical love here - Peter hates him, Peter hasn't forgiven him, and Peter is even more brutal here than he is in canon but that's really BETTER. And Sylar is repentant like he is in canon but it's also better cause you made him extraordinarily un-woobie and weepy. The original fic by mumblemutter was also masterful, but it leaned more on the Peter/Nathan side, so I admittedly enjoyed this one a little more just because of the POV, and my own personal pairing tastes. *shrug*

This is what Petlar is now. It's pretty much my canon. There's no sweet BFF-ness with Nathan forgotten in the dust, no, that's not Peter/Sylar. THIS is Peter/Sylar, and I want to glomp you to the ground for staying true to their relationship and presenting it in the way that got me into this pairing in the first place.

[brighteyed_jill]

Yay! Your comment makes me so happy! I haven't written Petlar in a while because... Well... It was a rough season of Heroes, and I was feeling kind of bruised. But! Remix gave me a reason (and mumblemutter gave me devious ideas) for more of these two and their twisted, twisted relationship!

It's funny because I usually err on the side of woobie, but there's just something about the wall!verse that brings out the colder side of these characters for me. Also, I cannot resist any temptation to bust out Nathan/Peter (as you well know), so I had a lot of fun with Nathan's influence here.

Thanks so much for reading, and I'm glad you liked it!

[kemokage]

I completely agree! I haven't read a wall!fic like this one since the episode first came out. This was so good I was completely enraptured. Most of the time when I read a Sylar/Peter fic that includes Nathan/Peter I just role my eyes and try to read beyond it, but I never did that with this fic. It was just so beautifully included I had to love it. I still don't ship Nathan/Peter but for this fic I did. Also I adored the dream sequences. They were so personal and very realistic to what dreams are like. Please write a sequel to this! I'm dying to know what happened between where this fic ends and when they break out.

[brighteyed_jill]

Thanks so much! I appreciate your giving this a chance despite the Nathan/Peter elements. The dream sequences were really fun to write, and definitely inspired by elements of the original fic.

Don't know if I'll ever write a sequel to this (so many other things in progress!), but I'm glad it intrigued you. Thanks again for reading!