Probability

[indyhat]

Characters: Claude/Bennet
Rating/Warnings: R, for extensive violence and bad language.
Word count: 3,384
Spoilers: Very minor ones up to S2, but virtually nothing past 1.17 ("Company Man")
Summary: Even after you've calculated the odds and checked your working, twice, some things are still just ... inevitable. Set between ".07%" and "The Hard Part

Comments

[fantasticpants]

UR TAZR PR0NZ: LET ME LUV U IT. W/TAZRZ.

So much love for angry-vicious-vindictive!Claude, who's still a helluva lot more vulnerable than he's willing to be. And Bennet still gets under his skin (with his damn fun-spoiling morally grey puppy eyes), no matter how much he tries to fight it. I can totally see Claude opting for exactly this kind of revenge, too, since he's very driven by the heat of the moment. He wants to hurt Bennet like Bennet hurt him, but probably not face actual consequences, that's why thinking Bennet is dead would jolt him right out of it

[indyhat]

MAH TAZRZ: LET ME GIV U IT.

I can never shake the feeling that (present-day) Claude's about two breaths from disintegrating ... he holds it together most of the time, but yeah, there are big cracks. And Bennet doesn't even need to think consciously about getting under his skin - it's just what he does. I'm fascinated by the idea that Bennet picked up the snark-under-pressure from Claude ... there's a story right there, about Bennet's transformation from rookie to rugged, wry company man.

Glad they both worked for you here :) Particularly glad that the post-tasering snark fits - I couldn't imagine anything else, really! I was going to include some talk about Claire, but that ended up covering too-familiar ground (Imaginary Friend, I think), so I cut it. And I suspect that the snark works better than the earnestness

[fantasticpants]

U IZ TAZR MAH A$$ Y/N?

Yeah, present!Claude is far from together, and exposure to Bennet is pretty damn likely to send him over the edge. Then again, I think he'd need to break down so he can build himself back up - hard to imagine it happening fluidly (Bennet's trickier in that respect, he always anchors on self-control and a sense of mission, no matter how close to the breaking line he is).

I think Bennet has to be a natural hunter ('s why Blade Runner works so well for him) - it's not something that can be completely learned. He'd probably show that even as a rookie, just without the experience and confidence (I'm actually wondering if he's gonna end up running the Company at some point in the show, because it's a plausible direction for him). I'm gonna have to write a big Company Years fic eventually, 4 srs. @_

[indyhat]

I IZ TAZRZ UR A$$ GUD 4 REALZ!

Yeah, I feel that Claude needs some rebuilding (we have the technology ... ) - I'm sure this whole taser episode will have been very cathartic for him ;) And yes, Bennet's internal narrative is all mission, whereas Claude's is probably all id! Oh dear.

Hey, we need to write that Blade Runner fic! It's too bad she won't live I have to go away on Wednesday.

UR C0MPANY YRZ FIC: WRIET MEH IT.

Yeah, I expect Bennet's going to try to get serious in this coda I'm not writing. And Claude will probably try and dismiss it by being flip.

I wish everyone wrote emotional pr0n ... the regular kind is okay, but I like the psychological stuffz.

[fantasticpants]

MAH A$$ TWITCHZ 4 U.

Yeah, I'm sure it was plenty cathartic, only now when he'll want to get all 'you fucking shot me!' on Bennet, Bennet could just go 'You tasered me 17 times (he'd count, too!)' so that would take some of the satisfaction out of it. :( And yes, Bennet's on a mission from God. Claude's internal monologue is 80% id, 10% GRR, 10% pretzels. The pretzels are superego for realz!

We really do. You're only going away for one week though, right?

MAH C0MPANY YRZ FIC: MEBBE ONCE I FINISHZ ALL TEHM OTHR STUFFZ. ALL EVELNTY-MILLI0NZ 0F TEHM.

'course Claude would be flip. Then Bennet would get even more SRS and PUPPEH EYZ and possibly employ some finger-fu.

Any kind of pr0nz needs some underlying... if not theme then emotion, yeah. Even if it's lack of emotion, it still needs to convey something.

[redlight_artist]

"Any kind of pr0nz needs some underlying... if not theme then emotion, yeah. Even if it's lack of emotion, it still needs to convey something."

Amen my sister! This is what motivates my pr0n. There needs to be something more solid than just sex, even if that is the only activity taking place.

[indyhat]

There needs to be something more solid than just sex, even if that is the only activity taking place.

Word.

[fantasticpants]

Pr0n without substance pretty much dominates fandom. Which is a shame, because it's really very tedious.