Fic: Conduit (1/1)

[hitlikehammers]

Title: Conduit
Rating: PG-13
Pairing/Characters: Richard/Jacob, Esau
Word Count: 945
Summary: These are the harbingers of life unending. For starfoozle, who requested “Richard/Jacob” at my Winter Gift-Fic Extravaganza. Spoilers through 5.16 - The Incident, Parts 1 & 2.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
Author’s Notes: For starfoozle: I've been thinking on

Comments

[starfoozle]

Just so you know, your version of the Jacob-Richard-Esau dynamic is officially my personal canon. I will honestly be disappointed if the show takes an entirely different direction with them, because this is perfect, really, and I can't see how it could get any more interesting.

“I have told you,” he coaxes, taunts - he is, proudly, the instigator between them; where Jacob would wait in patient silence until the ending of this world and the birthing of the next, he could never manage such restraint. Alpha and omega, yin and yang - they were never meant to overlap, only contrast; oil to water, the rainbow on the surface, but never underneath. “I have always told you.” I love this. I really hope we get more insight into their relationship next season, see how they play off each other, because it's bound to be fascinating.

And of course it’s raining - of course it rains; wash away the plague of death upon paradise, and only life remains. I may be mis-remembering, but I think there's a common motif of rain in some of your Richard&Jacob fic, and I love it and the metaphors/implications it allows.

Wonderful job. :)

[hitlikehammers]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed this - to the point of thinking of it as your personal canon, wow! - and yes, I am rather attached to Biblical and water metaphors with these characters, you're not mis-remembering ;)