FIC: Captcha and Misc VIII

[etherati]

Fandom: Watchmen
Date Written: 2009
Summary: Captcha/Misc/Commentfic Ficlets. #1 is a captcha, #2 is from a prompt for 'random fluff', #3 is a comment fic from comment_fic. #1 and #2 are z!verse, #1 and #3 are srs bsns, #2 is ridiculous crack.
Rating/Warnings: PG.

#1
Title: Superstition
Prompt: 'january repays'

Comments

[daylilymoon]

#1
I failed to mention before that the third-to-last paragraph is pretty awesome. :3

#2
Bwahaha Laurie. I do really like the tone you strike with the three of them, it's that classic Dan-Ror-Laurie interaction which makes me all fond and OH YOU KIDS. I've said it before, but Laurie is such a zesty good addition to this verse.

#3
Oh man, wow. This is one I'm gonna be rereading. There is such a delicate balance of separation, bitterness, that old partnership-love, and that sense of a very old friendship we've talked about before. Really, really, really nice.

[etherati]

1) I like that one too :3
2) Well see, because I'm not trying to ot3 that verse, she doesn't have to be super serious in her interactions with them and therefore neither do I. XD She's Dan's drinking pal now basically, and that leaves her free to start shit with Ror whenever she wants. Which I'm having a lot of fun with. XD
3) Thank you. I just wrote that this morning, and I really like how it came out - that kind of thing where stuff isn't right, isn't how it used to be, but you can't just forget and sever because it keeps popping up to remind you, and there's no way to get home again. :\

Touched anon is touched. (wibble)

[anonymous]

#3. I cried.

Thank you. Mixes in my head with the most gut-wrenching of all Dan's thoughts from Brushstrokes when Ror's still under - But not gone, never gone, and holy shit, I'm crying again.

Thank you.

(captcha says 'rebirths for'. May these AUs let him live again.)

Re: Touched anon is touched. (wibble)

[etherati]

Oddly, the situation here was actually inspired by btb - the bit on the dock when ror's just woken up, and dan's remembering him coming to him in '82 with a broken arm. If this is from that verse, this'll actually be the last dan sees of him until 85, BUT, that also means they end up alive in the future etc etc. With the chance to try to fix themselves.

Thank you <3

[jack_infinitude]

*flails*

#1 - Oh, Rorschach. Loved the look at the superstition that still runs through him (and really, through us all.) Favorite part: [And could that be called a wish, uttered wordlessly into siren-strobing darkness, clambering at a door that won’t open and desperate just to see a living face framed in the entryway’s light before he succumbs?]

#2 - *sporfle* I loved Laurie in this. She's so disrespectful, and totally not falling for Rorschach's scary act, and I just *flail!* I love it! Favorite part: Christ, you've never even eaten anybody, what the hell kind of street cred is that? Great undead terror of the underworld, eating cereal with a cartoon tiger on the box.

#3 - I think I have whiplash. This is such a perfect snapshot of how they were at the end, with Dan's sadness and Rorschach's own shame, and I just, oh geez, I love how you write these two.

[etherati]

1) It's one thing to think you can buy wishes with pennies - that's just stupid, he'd think - but there's this thing, of tempting fate by refusing to pay up for something that was a desperate long shot being granted, and that superstition I think runs a lot deeper in most of us.

2) She IS, and tactless, and even just woken up, capable of a few zingers. This is post-the other fic I'm writing so there's very little actual malice there, more just 'it is fun to start shit with rorschach because his reactions are hilarious', and yeah, she's not buying the act at all.

3) So sad :( Dan can't even say out loud how much he wishes things were how they used to be - Ror would just call him weak, and no one else would understand.

Thank you! <3

[robinnevermore]

#1

"It’s past midnight, and 1976 is settling into his bones like so much history in reverse, waiting to unfold in all of its horror and splendor and grotesque humanity; he knows Daniel will have waited up."

I love how Rorschach's thought process always ends on a high note when he thinks of daniel. It's all horror, blood, gritty dirty recognition, and then... Daniel.

#2

I love it when you include Laurie in your fics. I use to really dislike her, but the way you write her (and as long as she's not hanging over Daniel) then i actually like her.

And of course, Rorschach would somehow be able to turn spoons in deadly weapons.

#3

"In a half-hour he'll be gone, disappeared out the door again and maybe it'll be a month, six months, a year. But for now he'll lean in and shiver away the pain and let himself be supported and every carefully controlled breath will say it: Needed you. Still need you. Have no one else to go to.

Thank you."

Love it!

[etherati]

1) Yeah. He does have a positive grounding point for his thoughts now, and I love how it helps him not get too mired in things - because he's always been grim and quiet, as Dan said, but it's nice to see the grimness shaken off now and then.

2) Laurie is a great character when she's not spindled, folded, and mutilated into becoming a typical female lead(ie, The Romantic Interest) like the movie did. Besides, it's way too early in this verse for her to be sick of Jon yet. XD She's so feral, it's wonderful.

3) Thank you. :3

[etherati]

1) It's funny, i've gotten that reaction from almost everyone, that they hadn't even thought of that - to me, it'd always felt assumed that ror didn't even know whether dan was still alive until he opened the door, but I guess the tension-building from Dan's pov was more effective than I thought. XD Anyway, that's awesome, because then this lil fic actually brings something new to the table.

2) I love how unafraid she is, it's part of what's so fun about writing her in this verse.

3) There's a lot Dan can't/won't say, yeah. The 'thank you' thing is the surface level of the communication they don't have, largely because in the past they didn't need to say any of it explicitly, but it def goes a lot deeper. I'm so glad you like it; I hesitated over going all Sad and Angsty with it but it seemed the best angle for the prompt.

4) I am having pie for breakfast and it is delicious OM NOM NOM.

5) would you like some sad awkward zombieporn art in your email, i figure that's something to clear before just SENDING hahaha

[etherati]

1) It honestly thrills me that I can still tease new pieces out of that story and have them be fresh revelations, it makes me so happy. :D

2) Yay thanks :3

3) I know; I've never written him that way, but I love the idea all the same. It's so weirdly charming and sad all at once.

Thanks! <3