Comments | halfshellvenus: White Collar Fiction: "A Conspiracy Of Comfort" (Mozzie, Neal, Peter, Gen, PG)

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White Collar Fiction: "A Conspiracy Of Comfort" (Mozzie, Neal, Peter, Gen, PG)

Aug 10, 2010 01:21

Title: A Conspiracy Of Comfort
Fandom: White Collar
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Mozzie, Neal, Peter (Gen)
Rating: PG
Summary (early Season 2): Neal has stolen millions of dollars of goods, but it's his friendships that make him rich.
Author's Notes: Day five of the Bleeding Cuticles Roadkill Challenge. Also for writers_choice, this is "Friendship ( Read more... )

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Comments 26

tsuki_no_bara August 10 2010, 16:03:12 UTC

mozzie! *hearts* this made me squee.

(i really like that you gave him an inner life and more of a personality than just "neal's terminally paranoid partner in crime". and i love that the conversation he has with neal is really about what they're not saying, because i think mozzie is all about figuring out what's going on under the surface and behind a person's words. on the show they play it mostly as paranoia and nerves and ridiculousness, but it can just as easily be used when he's worried about his friend. and i love that he doesn't trust the suit peter to take care of neal, because let's be honest, he doesn't exactly trust peter with ANYTHING.)

halfshellvenus August 10 2010, 19:12:16 UTC

Another Mozzie fan! I adore him, and I find him as adoraBLE as he is funny (HalfshellHusband agrees).

Most of what we've seen in his interactions with Neal is that Mozzie's 'paranoia' isn't just random. He usually has good reasons for his concerns (heck, Mozzie's as much on the wrong side of the law as Neal is, he just keeps a lower profile).

I completely understand why Mozzie doesn't trust Peter, even if he's pretty sure that he could. Mozzie takes his role in friendship very seriously, and he is not about to let Neal destroy himself if he can help it-- even if that means keeping Neal from trusting the wrong person, even if it means that person might unintentionally cause trouble for Neal.

And I love him all the more for it, just as I love Peter. WE know Peter is (probably almost entirely) trustworthy, but Mozzie has to be much more careful.

wingstar102 August 10 2010, 19:34:23 UTC

*sniffle* I love your Moz. And the tone of this fic is so... hopeful. I love the subtler emotions in a fic and you captured them in this perfectly. Will beg and grovel for more!

Love and cherries,
Wingstar

halfshellvenus August 10 2010, 20:41:06 UTC

Yay! This is such lovely feedback, especially for a character that I adore and who has so much more to him than the surface of being Neal's funny/paranoid/convenient sidekick. He's a very good friend to Neal, and you get the sense that Mozzie doesn't get that close to very many people any more than Neal does.

Neal is lucky to have found him, however that might have happened. :)

daria234 August 10 2010, 20:24:04 UTC

LOVE it. Mozzie really is a wonderful friend, and knows him well - and knows when to push and when not to. I like his thoughts on Neal and Peter, his method of testing Neal out.

halfshellvenus August 10 2010, 20:43:26 UTC

Thank you! He's a very, very good friend-- which not only has to be rare for Neal, but rare that he has a friend who knows exactly what he does for a living and aligns well with it instead of being distanced by it. It's a little trickier, with Neal (mostly) on the other side of the law now, but Mozzie would never give up on him because of something like that.

The guy is worth his fuzzy teddy-bear weight in gold!

sg_lab August 10 2010, 20:57:23 UTC

Oh I really loved this. I've been wanting some Mozzie, Neal friendship fic.

halfshellvenus August 12 2010, 00:53:26 UTC

I'm so glad other people like that too. I get such a kick out of Neal and Mozzie's friendship, and how different it is from what Neal has with Peter. And I adore Mozzie to pieces. :)

damietta August 10 2010, 23:38:06 UTC

I love Mozzie's brand of friendship. His inner dialogue and his outer mechanicisms are perfect.

I do wish the showrunners had allowed Neal a few minutes more of grieving and had Moz do things like this.

halfshellvenus August 12 2010, 00:55:43 UTC

Thank you so much! I'm glad you find this true to the character. He's a real favorite of mine.

I agree that it would have been nice to have a little more grieving, rather than rushing past it. That human aspect of Neal is every bit as important as his flair in pulling off scams-- it's the balance between the two things that is so unusual and makes him so interesting.