she hopes that you can lose your faith together, she needs some company when losing it forever.
Information and spoilers about Dexter season four.
Okay, really? I have to say that if Deb figuring Dexter out takes ALL SEASON that's going to really annoy me. Because the concept was introduced in the finale of s3 when Deb gained access to the information on Dexter's past. Obviously she's not going to piece it all together right away, but still, I give that arc 4-6 episodes of being actually tight and interesting. I think if it drags on longer than that it is going to get boring. I would SO much rather see what happens when Deb knows rather than being unendingly clueless.
This is why I rec thunderemerald 's fic so hard that I am too lazy to get links for so either she can be nice and link it in the comments or anybody else can go find it themselves. (Btw, dear, did you ever get around to betaing what I sent you? I know, life's been hella busy.)
It's been really interesting so far to see the reactions of non-immediate-victims who do find out about what Dexter is. Doakes and Lila were sort of each other's foils- both fascinated with pursuing Dexter's darkness, but with opposite displays of their feelings. In the next season, whathisname found out, but he was more interested in bending it as a tool to fit his own needs. In a way, he was kind of like Brian, since they both decided Dexter reflected them and then wanted him to become their companion in carrying out their own agendas. Dexter killed all of them- not necessarily because they knew, but because as they were able to recognize his dark secret, he was able to recognize theirs, and recognize the lack of guidelines containing it.
So I think that for Deb to know, understand, and live with Dexter's secret, some pretty heavy parallels are going to have to be drawn between the two of them. That, of course, will make for some interesting characterization and I look forward to seeing it. I think one possible parallel is how both Deb and Dexter have problems maintaining relationships with kindred souls: when it comes to hardworking, ambitious, justice-driven types, Deb's relationship wtih Rudy was a lie, with that FBI (?) guy ended with them both going different directions, all of her work relationships get tense and rocky, and not until the latest guy she's with is she having any kind of settling success- and, like she said, that's because she's like Red Bull, and he's Prozac. Like Dexter, she eliminates her doubles, too.
Anybody know when the season is starting? I'm too lazy to look it up.
ETA: thunderemerald 's awesome fic series that is going to be continued in a little while by an installment I wrote. GO. READ. REVIEW.
Title: Water Through a Rusted Pipe
Author: thunderemerald
Fandom: Dexter (TV-verse)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4,891
Summary: Deb sees a side of her brother that she's never seen before, and asks some awkward questions. Dexter, in answering them, decides to experiment with truth.
Title: Something is Cracking
Author: thunderemerald
Fandom: Dexter (TV-verse)
Rating: PG-13 (warning for violence)
Length: 7,887
Summary: Dexter has confessed one of his murders to Deb, but she knows something else is going on. (Hint: if this were an episode of Friends, the title would be "The One Where Deb Totally Finds Out Everything.")
Spoilers: Everything through season 2.
Okay, really? I have to say that if Deb figuring Dexter out takes ALL SEASON that's going to really annoy me. Because the concept was introduced in the finale of s3 when Deb gained access to the information on Dexter's past. Obviously she's not going to piece it all together right away, but still, I give that arc 4-6 episodes of being actually tight and interesting. I think if it drags on longer than that it is going to get boring. I would SO much rather see what happens when Deb knows rather than being unendingly clueless.
This is why I rec thunderemerald 's fic so hard that I am too lazy to get links for so either she can be nice and link it in the comments or anybody else can go find it themselves. (Btw, dear, did you ever get around to betaing what I sent you? I know, life's been hella busy.)
It's been really interesting so far to see the reactions of non-immediate-victims who do find out about what Dexter is. Doakes and Lila were sort of each other's foils- both fascinated with pursuing Dexter's darkness, but with opposite displays of their feelings. In the next season, whathisname found out, but he was more interested in bending it as a tool to fit his own needs. In a way, he was kind of like Brian, since they both decided Dexter reflected them and then wanted him to become their companion in carrying out their own agendas. Dexter killed all of them- not necessarily because they knew, but because as they were able to recognize his dark secret, he was able to recognize theirs, and recognize the lack of guidelines containing it.
So I think that for Deb to know, understand, and live with Dexter's secret, some pretty heavy parallels are going to have to be drawn between the two of them. That, of course, will make for some interesting characterization and I look forward to seeing it. I think one possible parallel is how both Deb and Dexter have problems maintaining relationships with kindred souls: when it comes to hardworking, ambitious, justice-driven types, Deb's relationship wtih Rudy was a lie, with that FBI (?) guy ended with them both going different directions, all of her work relationships get tense and rocky, and not until the latest guy she's with is she having any kind of settling success- and, like she said, that's because she's like Red Bull, and he's Prozac. Like Dexter, she eliminates her doubles, too.
Anybody know when the season is starting? I'm too lazy to look it up.
ETA: thunderemerald 's awesome fic series that is going to be continued in a little while by an installment I wrote. GO. READ. REVIEW.
Title: Water Through a Rusted Pipe
Author: thunderemerald
Fandom: Dexter (TV-verse)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 4,891
Summary: Deb sees a side of her brother that she's never seen before, and asks some awkward questions. Dexter, in answering them, decides to experiment with truth.
Title: Something is Cracking
Author: thunderemerald
Fandom: Dexter (TV-verse)
Rating: PG-13 (warning for violence)
Length: 7,887
Summary: Dexter has confessed one of his murders to Deb, but she knows something else is going on. (Hint: if this were an episode of Friends, the title would be "The One Where Deb Totally Finds Out Everything.")
Spoilers: Everything through season 2.