TEAM WHIMSY: Day 12, "Weak Men Must Fall"

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Title: Weak Men Must Fall
Author: caersmane Caers Mane
Team: Whimsy
Prompt: "Actually, I was hoping to circumvent the explanation."
Pairing(s): Vecchio/Kowalski
Length: 4500 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Dark, some swearing
Summary: Angels can fall, and men can be broken. But will one give up his chance at redemption to help another heal?
Author's notes:

Comments

[j_s_cavalcante]

Ow, ow, ow...I'm glad we started with the premise that this isn't Reality. And it's AU, with a different version of the Victoria story. But it was still dark and hurty as all get-out. The fallen-angel thing. The wounds from where his wings were! *cries*

And his purpose. An AMAZING explanation for the Victoria arc. Also an amazing explanation for Kowalski's sudden appearance in the storyline, his parents, and how he got his name.

This might just be the most chilling sentence in this whole dark story:

It's going to be a long time before she sees her mother....and it's about a character we never even meet, but...a child! Purgatory! And Fraser, oh, God, Fraser is mortal, and yet he knows this. Knows too much. *cries

[travels_in_time]

Wow. Everything J.S. said. Dark and hurty and fascinating and hopeful and yes.

[caersmane]

Thank you! :) I'm so glad you liked it.

[mikes_grrl]

Yes, again, pretty much what J.S. said. A very haunting fic. Like Kyria, though, I am more focused on Kowalski's sacrifice and the doomed little girl than anything. Kowalski, drifting, waiting, hoping...gawd that hurts. And Fraser KNOWING the girl child has to pay a price for her suicide is heartbreaking; helplessness IS heartbreaking, and this fic captures that in a soul-deep way.

Beautiful story arc; yes, I'd like to see more in this 'verse but if not, it stands magnificently on its own.

[wihluta]

Oh, wow. Uhm. You've left me pretty much speechless here, mystery author.

This is just such a compelling, dark and well-thought-out story. It works so well from start to finish and... honestly, it slays me.

The roles you've given each of them, they fit so well. This is so completely AU and yet I can still see our characters in this.

If anyone ever said whimsy can't be dark and serious, you've proven them wrong. This was dark, but not in a bad way, because there's still hope. Fraser can heal and he can get Vecchio back and I'd like to believe that Kowalski gets his redemption too.

This story will stay with me for a long time.

Great work!

[caersmane]

If anyone ever said whimsy can't be dark and serious, you've proven them wrong.

That was completely my intention :) I think the pervasive attitude toward whimsy is that it equals crack, and I wanted to show that it doesn't.
Thanks for commenting, and I'm glad you liked it!

[sisterofdream]

Wow. Absolutely brilliant premise. I'd love to see more stories in this world featuring just about anyone, really.

The story is incredibly well written, and it feels so tangible. The images and the sounds of voices, the feeling of wind, it's all so solid, like we were dropped into this fully formed world just as Ray was.

And oh ow for everybody! Dead or doomed to forget! But there's hope, right? I'm not imagining the hope? *clings to hope*

[caersmane]

I'd love to see more stories in this world featuring just about anyone, really.

Nah, this was just a slice out of it. No plans at all to write more here.

Feel free to imagine whatever you want out of this. I don't generally explain what's going on, even though I have my own definate view; I like it when people can take different things out of the same story, so what you see in it is your own :)
Thanks!

[belmanoir]

awwww! KOWALSKI!! ::loves:: he's just such a nice guy. and i love how his twitchiness ties in with his powers in this verse.

and Vecchio!! Vecchio loves Kowalski so much! The framed PICTURE of them! Going to get him off the roof!

and poor sad Fraser. thanks for the hopeful ending, i really appreciate it. :) although aw, i hope Vecchio doesn't really forget Kowalski.

ALSO DIEF DOESN'T LIKE TO DWELL ON THE OTHER HALF. that was FUCKING AWESOME.

[caersmane]

The twitchiness! I had to include it, since I think it's kind of integral to him. And I think it's little things, like photos, that can set a scene.
As for a hopeful ending, I think Fraser is some strange embodiment of hope. That man never gives up (except when he does, but then he seems to muster himself again) so where Fraser goes, where his friends go, I think there will always be hope.
Dief if a tempermental half wolf, and touchy about his heritage :D
Thanks for reading!

[carta]

Oh, I would LOVE to read more of this. What happened before, what happens after, the works.

[caersmane]

Whilst it exists in my head, sorry, not going to write it. It was created just for this, and I'm going to be leaving it here :)
Thank you for reading, and I'm so pleased that you enjoyed it enough to want more.