Fic: Blue Screen (Callista/Luke, 1/1)
Title: Blue Screen
Characters: Callista, Luke
Warnings: HOLY CRAP, this came out dark. Angst, depression, vague allusions to suicide. (The whole Callista arc is pretty dark on its own, really, even if it's mostly unintended.)
Summary: This is not happily ever after.
A/N: Not sure whether this will be posted anywhere else. *shifty eyes* It's a ( Read more... )
Characters: Callista, Luke
Warnings: HOLY CRAP, this came out dark. Angst, depression, vague allusions to suicide. (The whole Callista arc is pretty dark on its own, really, even if it's mostly unintended.)
Summary: This is not happily ever after.
A/N: Not sure whether this will be posted anywhere else. *shifty eyes* It's a ( Read more... )
I always thought the whole Callista/Cray switch was immensely creepy. I also thought (somewhat vaguely through my discomfort) that while I didn't like Callista, she surely had far more depth and potential than she was ever actually given.
It's beyond me how they didn't address that, because... inhabiting a dead body, yeah. Cray's body magically morphing to fit Callista's features doesn't make that any less wrong.
And, of course, with everything else she'd known gone, Luke became pretty much everything to her, and you can't put that sort of pressure on a relationship; no one person can be everything.
This, exactly! That's the huge thing that stands out to me about their relationship. Luke never seemed aware of it at the time, but think maybe with wisdom and less self-absorption he would have looked back on it a little differently. He was kind of a moron in this period of the EU. (Like he's not written that way in other parts of the EU! *cough*)
I probably get way too much mileage from dysfunctional relationships, but misery has so many facets. :p
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