fanfic: Necessary

[deinonychus_1]

Well, the inevitable has happened, and the Pythagoras!whumping has really got going in earnest now *rubs hands gleefully*. I even have a shiny new icon for the occasion! Poor Pythagoras, this is price you pay for being one of my favourites, and at the point when I have a hurt/comfort bingo card, no less... *evil grin

Comments

[clea2011]

Poor Py!
I still think Jason should do the honours next time 😀
(Think the AO3 link might be broken)

[deinonychus_1]

But Jason is far too noble to do something like that! Plus, he isn't half as pretty when he's broken as poor Pythagoras *evil grin*

The AO3 link works now. You were a bit pre-emptive - the link didn't work before because I was still in the middle of creating the post on AO3!

[fififolle]

GAH! I hate that Pythagoras felt he had to do that. Hercules is so selfish sometimes!! But what a great fic!

[deinonychus_1]

What???!! But I was expecting more squeeing, lol! Besides, this fic is at least partly your fault - I was going to do something entirely different for the 'prostitution' square, but then you started jumping up and down and squeeing about hooker!Pythagoras in the comments to my bingo card!

Anyway, thanks! Poor Pythagoras, he is being thoroughly beaten with the angst stick now. Hercules would be horrified if he knew what he had caused.

[fififolle]

I'd like to think he would have enjoyed his prostitution a bit more *g* And whether he did or didn't, that we would have got to see more of it :p Oh dear, I am so bad. Maybe next time he whores himself out, his customer will be a bit more obliging :D

[deinonychus_1]

Lol! So basically you're complaining that there wasn't enough sex in the prostitution fic! ;-)

next time he whores himself out

Poor Py! Jason would be so unhappy if he caught Pythagoras whoring himself out again possibly because Jason gets very jealous at the thought of anybody else touching his favourite mathematician.

[stealingpennies]

Poor Pythagoras thinking of triangles. :( *g* You really do know how to do hurt/comfort for maximum physical and emotional whump. As usual with these three the dynamics of the triangle are interesting - that Pythagoras cares more about Hercules' reaction than Jason's, not because he trusts Hercules less but because of how Hercules will react. I feel sorry for Jason here. He's going to be find it a hard secret to keep. And of course Hercules will never forgiven any of them should he find out. Satisfied sigh.
Congrats also for finding a believable reason for Pythagoras to be selling himself. They really do seem hopeless at holding down a job for more than one ep at a time!

[deinonychus_1]

You really do know how to do hurt/comfort for maximum physical and emotional whump.

Awww, thank you, you say the nicest things to me *evil grin*.

Well, to be fair Pythagoras didn't want Jason to know either, he just found out by accident. But yes, he was definitely far more bothered about the possibility of Hercules knowing.

I did have to try quite hard to find a plausible reason for Pythagoras to be up to something like that! I blame Fifi. I had been intending to do something entirely different with this square, but then Fifi started squeeing about hooker!Pythagoras, and the idea somehow wormed its way into my brain.

[stealingpennies]

*g* Fifi is a feeelthy enabler (said with huge admiration) but I've read the comments and know just how hard you fought back! I would certainly agree that Pythagoras needs his friends good opinion and would do a great deal not to lose that. And both his friends idealise Pythagoras to a certain extent albeit in slightly different ways. I get the idea that Jason would be fundamentally more concerned about the danger than the prostitution itself - though clearly that's also a concern - because modern viewpoint finds it easier to separate the act from the person.

(Hope, btw, that you managed to get your fic chapters finished to deadline. Fingers crossed for you.)

[deinonychus_1]

Fifi gets blamed for many, many thing around here. I'm sure *some* of them aren't actually her fault, but she gets blamed anyway ;-)

And both his friends idealise Pythagoras to a certain extent albeit in slightly different ways.

Ooh, now that's an interesting point. Care to elaborate?

Now you mention it, I think also a lot of fic writers tend to 'idealise' him as well. A lot of the fic latches onto him as this kind, gentle, relatively innocent guy, but I think in canon he is often a lot more hardened and pragmatic and sarcastic than a lot of fic writers portray him as (me included, unfortunately).

I did get the chapters finished in time (yey!), and am now hitting the research in order to attempt to write the rest of the novel. Meep! Although now that is finished, when I'm not researching, I can now get on with several outstanding birthday and gift fics, yours included!