FIC: "The Bandage and the Blade," Helen/Will/Nikola, Sanctuary, NC17

[geonncannon]

Title: The Bandage and the Blade
Author: geonncannon
Fandom: Sanctuary
Pairing: Helen Magnus/Nikola Tesla/Will Zimmerman
Word Count: 2,432
Category: AU, Angst, hurt/comfort, drama
Spoilers: End of Nights, Vigilante, One Night, Wingman, Carentan, Out of the Blue
Disclaimer: They don't belong to me.
Rating: NC17
Sequel to: The Whisper and the Shout, but it's

Comments

[querulouspeg]

Just wanted to rub your shoulder a little bit. As someone who flits between male and female identities I have experience a bit of a double standard when it comes to rape. True, it a bit issue for feminists (of which I am one) because it is in some western countries (par example the UK) a crime that goes virtually unpunished, and can be viewed as the strongest way in which patriarchy manifests itself. That being said, as a female if I treat the subject of rape in a lighthearted or gratutious way, it's more or less permitted. When I adopt a male persona, people jump down my throat. I guess it's just one of those things. It

[querulouspeg]

gah fecking computer....sorry.
...it's not like men don't also get raped.

Anyway, don't let people hassle you for putting controversial subjects in your fics.

(just stick a warning on it!)

re: male persona

[gsyh]

(A) Polly Oliver chiming in here!

Sometimes I crossdress when I have to stay out late, and it's...interesting. See, when I'm out as a lady, I have to be hyper aware of being groped (that has happened...), but when I'm out as Polly Oliver, I can doze off in public, but I also now have to be hyper vigilante of NOT appearing like I'm groping someone, or make a woman uncomfortable by being too close to her, sometimes it's shocking to see a woman suddenly move the other way from me before I remember how I look.

It's just, 1)Let's go with what people feel comfortable with, as long as that isn't something that discomfort someone else more in an unreasonable way, and 2)there is a logical reason for this, as in general, man have more brute strength, I remember this boy back in HS who was skinny like a twine, he was skinnier than me, but he was really, really, really strong, he moved with ease the curtain raising wheel that I was really struggling with, and I'm kinda strong - for a girl. Plus, patriarchy.

Re: male persona

[querulouspeg]

I can't really cross dress convincingly on account of my enormous bosom. *smiles at Geonn* Ho hum.

Re: male persona

[geonncannon]

I can understand that. I'm an imposing guy. Big but not fat, bald... So when I'm out walking, I'll make it a point to never, ever follow women down the street. People say that I'm being way too paranoid, but I would rather take an alternate route and add a little to my walk than frighten the women into thinking I'm following them.

And as a woman whose heart had jumped as high as the CN Tower many a night

[gsyh]

...I thank you for that polite turn.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm alive, and if you are a man with a car parked on the side of the road and you happen to come out as a woman is walking by, please stop staring at her back, maybe she is staring at you, she's staring at you because she's wondering if you are going to go after her, so please don't keep staring at her as she walk away. I probably lose a lot of weight from breaking into light jogs and crossing the road - the best first defence a woman has against an opponent with greater strength is distance, like with zombies!

Statistically speaking though, I'm actually quite safe at night, it's peers of peers I shall have to watch for.

As for your mention of Helen's request, at someone who had, at different points in life, Anglican and worse, Baptist upbringing, I get why she ask what she asked. She was lonely, but she would have felt guilty if she consented to company after losing her daughter, she needed to give up responsibility for sin