Alphabet of Niteschach (A-L)

[kovacsisdead]

Fandom: Watchmen
Title: The Alphabet of Niteschach
Characters/Pairings: Dan/Rorschach, every last one.
Summary: Exactly what the title says it is. One drabble for every letter of the alphabet.
Ratings/Warnings: Mostly PG, some PG 13 and a handful of R-rated for spice.
Notes: Some of these are approaching seriousness. A few (W for sure) are just plain

Comments

[etherati]

These are all brilliant(sorry for the late comment, have had a houseguest for a while and limited web access) so I'll have to just hit the highlights:

“Getting slow in old age,” and Dan knows the other man well enough now to recognize that that’s humor softening his growl,

I love this, that they can slide from bickering to gentle teasing so seamlessly and Dan can see it when it happens, that's beautiful.

Also in Iluminate, you did a fantastic job of building suspense and Dan's panic and even though we as readers of course know that it's Rorschach who's got him, it still feels flighty-panicky, as it should.

C and D were both great for purely id-based reasons, and I love anything written in steals_thyme's verse so H is going on the shortlist too. :D

And as for Ebb - I have no idea how you managed to nail down something that so far has only been in my head, but this is perfect and exactly how I pictured the sort of... 'transition point'. Like a reboot, only you can't reboot people, so of course it would have looked like he'd died, to Dan. And the reaction and the mood and everything about it is so, so perfect.

*off to read the next set*

[kovacsisdead]

Nnn, thank you very much. (Don't worry about it. Don't really expect comments.)

Illuminate is one of my favorites as far as emotion goes. I like that kind of dramatic irony... though I don't know if it counts as dramatic irony, since rationally, Dan has to know it's Rorschach.

./////. eehhhhngh, stop. It's entirely due to the lovely pictures your stories put in my head.

When I was reading Now, as Before the first time, I started to get this image of Dan checking on Rorschach during his ill-sick phase. And eventually, I knew, there would have been a turning point -- it was maybe the third time through that I decided it would have had to be fairly dramatic -- there's just something about the way Dan talks when Rorschach wakes up and is okay (aside from being a zombie). I hear this hollowed tone, dry and empty, unable to show his relief because the terror has stripped everything out...

rrrl, it's entirely due to you, anyway. Your words gave me words, is all.

[etherati]

I hear this hollowed tone, dry and empty, unable to show his relief because the terror has stripped everything out...

Yeah, pretty much that, exactly.

Words, I swear. They're like rabbits, they keep making more words.

[kovacsisdead]

They do. It's bizarre. I think that's why prompt-filling is so much fun...