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Through The Windowpane

Jan 10, 2011 21:32

Title: Through The Windowpane
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Ariadne/Arthur
Disclaimer: Everyone here belongs to Christopher Nolan and not to me. His toys are fun to play with!
Spoilers/Warnings: Post-movie. For the

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rating: pg-13, pairing: ariadne/arthur, fanfic: inception

Comments 17

elliesmeow January 11 2011, 04:54:24 UTC

This made my brain hurt. But I liked the rawness of the emotion. Especially at the end.

Thanks for posting.:)

-Ellie

eustacia_vye28 January 11 2011, 05:32:15 UTC

Hey, it made my brain hurt while I was writing it. This is the one where I was certain I would make people cry just trying to figure it out. lol.

angleico315678 January 11 2011, 05:43:28 UTC

God that was so beautiful. I have always wanted a fic with the mirrored Cobb/Mal dynamic for Ariadne and Arthur. I've been waiting for that for a long time! Thank you!

This was just gorgeous and so emotional. I just love good angst you know? This was just an absolutely perfect accompanyment to the the song. They're beautiful lyrics and your words are so well written in this story.

My god. It was amazing. All I can say is bravo. Bravo.

I love this.

eustacia_vye28 January 12 2011, 02:07:37 UTC

I was so sure that everyone would look at this sideways and go WTF?!?! lol. I'm glad that it works as well as it does for you, given that it's my first time deliberately making Ariadne an unreliable narrator for this story and obscuring what actually happened in it.

I'm very glad you liked this. :)

laria_gwyn January 11 2011, 15:30:54 UTC

I could feel this shiver of dread just running down my spine. Great job with this fic. The emotions came across so strongly!

eustacia_vye28 January 12 2011, 02:08:22 UTC

If it's one thing I do well, it's angsty angst with a side of angst. ;)

Glad you liked this. :D

kore_rising January 11 2011, 16:42:27 UTC

Oh Darling, I'm speechless. In a good way, I hasten to add, a very, very good way. So beautiful and so painful without ever descending into a mountain of self pity or bad behaviour, just the slow unwinding of a mind being torn apart.
I have to say, if you'll let me entertain a theory that I hold for the poem and would probably apply to the fic, the entire episode he describes is a dream, a series of sensory images that jump from one to another. In my mind the entire affair they have is a dream, Ariadne is in limbo and it's only at the end when he comes for her that she's interacting with Arthur, not a projection. But as I've probably already said, I am a hopeless romantic and doubtless this is to blame for me wanting Ariadne to project her fears into dream space rather than reality.
All that aside, this was beautiful and I thank you, thank you, thank you.

eustacia_vye28 January 12 2011, 02:13:21 UTC

The fun part (sort of!) with having Ariadne as an unreliable narrator and not marking off dialogue clearly is that there really is no set way to read this. One interpretation could be that there was never any relationship and it was all in her head. One could be that yes, everything unraveled over time but Arthur still came back to save her when she fell into limbo. Or it could be that it was all reality, but she slowly lost it and they both died at the end instead of truly waking up. Or probably some other reading I didn't think of as I was writing or rereading this. (Because honestly? I confused the hell out of myself a few times as I was putting it together. lol ( ... )

kore_rising January 13 2011, 17:01:34 UTC

Ah, you and me both!
I think the principle joy of this is that it's taken that half awake state that the poem implies where the mind blurs and things impress rather than resolving clearly. Which is bloody hard to do, so kudos for that even if it sent you a little bonkers (ah, a fic writer's life :D)It seems natural that limbo should be a place where fears can be realised, and there is a part of each of us that I think is terrified of loss, rejection and failing to be understood. The id's playground, if you will.
Honestly, I loved this more than I can say.

eustacia_vye28 January 14 2011, 02:09:20 UTC

Oh, I do stream of consciousness really well. It's wondering if anyone else will understand it that's the problem. lol.

I'm glad you liked it! I was afraid it might be too angsty or wonky for you. :)

blackbirdox January 15 2011, 06:29:10 UTC

Darling, I don't even care for this pairing but I'm so in love with this. You had me hooked at the mention of Siken and you kept me hooked throughout the whole thing. It was so gorgeous. ♥

I might have to change my opinion of A/A after reading this. ;)

eustacia_vye28 January 15 2011, 23:24:45 UTC

In that case, I'm extra glad you enjoyed this piece! This was my first time trying an unreliable narrator POV like this, but I really wanted to emulate the poem a little. I'm glad it worked! I was afraid when I posted it that this would be too difficult to read, since I didn't mark off dialogue or make anything clear about what I was trying to do. ^^;

I love Ariadne/Arthur to pieces, so I've written a lot of them. Most of it isn't fluffy per se, but I do get the porn on quite a bit for those two. ;)