Comments | etothepii: Walking Alone at Midnight-Thirty, Hammer/Penny, PG-13

etothepii

Walking Alone at Midnight-Thirty, Hammer/Penny, PG-13

Jan 01, 2009 21:27

New Year's!

Title: Walking Alone at Midnight-Thirty
Fandom: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Pairing: Hammer/Penny
Rating: PG-13
Length: 738 words
Summary: So as it turns out, Captain Hammer is not as... as sweet as she’d thought he was.
Disclaimer: Not mine, but it’s all in good fun. Plx to be not suing me.

( So as it turns out, Captain Hammer is not as... as sweet as she'd thought he was. )

Comments 10

radical_archer January 2 2009, 06:00:31 UTC

Those last five sentences suddenly made me realize there's something in my eyes.
They won't stop watering.

/This is a lovely piece, dear. I like the POV and just the voice of it all.

etothepii January 2 2009, 06:16:53 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! Every time I see Billy with Penny, the back of my mind is like, "He's so cute. I bet he needs a hug," and Penny's definitely the compassionate sort such that she'd think it too.

*sniffle* idioticonion January 2 2009, 09:04:57 UTC

>The thought makes her think of Billy-from-the-Laundromat, who hides in his clothes and jumps when startled and always, always looks like he needs a hug.
She wonders if this is how he feels all the time. She hopes not.

Aw! *clutches heart*

Poor Penny! Hammer is such a brute. And yes, Billy DOES need a hug, you blind mare! Gah!

Great stuff. :)

Re: *sniffle* etothepii January 2 2009, 10:16:59 UTC

Hammer is a brute, and a jerk, and can be really mean at times (talking to Billy at the laundromat :( ). He buys into his own PR a little too much, and every time I think that, I go, "ow", because if Billy'd been patient and Penny hadn't died, she'd have dumped Hammer and then he'd have a chance.

killerweasel January 2 2009, 13:27:25 UTC

This was really good. I could picture Captain Hammer's grin and hear his voice while I was reading it.

etothepii January 2 2009, 23:21:46 UTC

Wheeee! I was worried about his dialogue a little bit (I'm not Joss :O), so I'm really glad you liked it.

jade_wynds January 2 2009, 17:36:00 UTC

I think you nailed Hammer (pun intended. I REGRET NOTHING!), and this really opened my eyes as to why Penny thinks he's sweet. That was my favourite part: how well you wrote Penny's point of view. Your characterization is quite good. One think I didn't get: a garage with no roof-openy-thing. Does this mean that Hammer has a jet in his garage, but to get out it has to bust through the roof? Or was this a typo?

etothepii January 2 2009, 23:20:27 UTC

:D He's pretty. I REGRET NOTHING.

I'm glad Penny rang true for you. She's too nice to be angry when someone does something rude on accident, and a lot of Hammer's "being a jerkface" can be explained by "he never learned not to do that" (with a little willful ignorance), and she kind of seems like the type of girl who's used to being bowled over by demanding guys, so having one (A JOCK) explicitly seek out her approval must be novel enough for her to still be flattered by it.

Also, yes. Hammer has the Hamjet he mentions in the show in his garage, but if he wants to fly it, he will bust through the roof and probably wreck a bunch of things because he has no runway strip thing either (don't jets need those too?). BUT CHICKS DIG IT.

lavastar January 21 2009, 01:36:25 UTC

Agh. Now I really want to give Penny a hug.

This was really interesting and insightful, and also kind of hilarious at times, with how completely clueless Hammer is. Great job!