Chemicals in the Brain (Dollhouse)

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Title: Chemicals in the Brain
Fandom: Dollhouse
Wordcount: 1,429
Prompt: 533. Dollhouse, Boyd/Topher, When you build personalities for a living, you start to get to understand them a bit better.
Summary: "Do you program that in, too?" Boyd asked once. "Or are all the Actives naturally bisexual?"
Author's Notes: Written for lgbtfest. I… don't think I really

Comments

[slash4femme]

yes!, yes! I am so glad someone wrote this pairing because it's been in the back of my head since I started watching the show. You did it with such lovely smoothness and grace too.

[iambickilometer]

Me too! I had to take the prompt, when I saw it, because I had a feeling no one else would. There doesn't seem to be a particularly large slash subset of Dollhouse fandom - I think you're the fourth person I've found who likes this pairing.

Thank you! I'm pleased you enjoyed the story.

[trovia]

I'm the fifth person who likes the pairing! At least this incarnation of it. ;) I think this might just have been one of the fics I've enjoyed most yet in this fandom. It feels real, and swift, and graceful, and I adored that little parallel you drew to the dolls in the last two paragraphs.

[iambickilometer]

Awesome! The more, the merrier, especially in such a small fandom. (I just don't understand how people don't like it. I mean, come on, the snark!) And I'm glad you like this particular fic - and that you caught what I was trying to do at the end, there. :D Thanks!

[messageredacted]

This was fabulous, and the last line just killed me. I love how this Topher sees sexuality as something programmable that only happens to other people. Thanks for writing this!

[iambickilometer]

Thank you! It seems to me that he wouldn't really take that kind of thing seriously, that he thinks just because he can control it in a lab means he can control it in real life.

It was my pleasure to write this. Thank you for reading and commenting.

[cmk418]

This is wonderful. I love how you approach the nature v nurture debate, and in the end, Topher can't help himself. The conversations between the two seemed very in character and for lack of a better description this is a really solid piece of writing. Well done!

[iambickilometer]

Thanks! Dollhouse, and particularly these two characters, struck me as a perfect setup for the nature vs nurture debate, with very clear views (granted, for Topher it seems to be more Nature vs Crazy Random Happenstance). I'm very glad this fic is so appreciated. :D

[seiberwing]

I'm not really that familiar with the show, but I liked this anyway. It was...weirdly cute yet contemplative, if that doesn't sound too vague.

[iambickilometer]

That being so, thank you for going out of your area of familiarity to read this! Cute yet contemplative was sort of what I was going for, though to save my dignity I probably wouldn't have phrased it thusly. ;) But in any case, I'm very pleased you liked it.

[seiberwing]

I knew the concept, at least, and I wanted to see what you'd do with it. And it was good!

[iambickilometer]

That's all you really need, for this fic. I'm not depending on canon events to play a big part of it, just general setup. :D

(Also, your icon is really amusing me. Who is that?)