Empty Hourglasses for elliotsmelliot

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Title: Empty Hourglasses
Author: primarycolors92
Recipient: elliotsmelliot
Pairing or Characters: Richard, Ben, Eloise, Charles Widmore
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Prompt: Richard, an off island adventure (solo or with Charles, Eloise, Ben and/or Ethan)
Summary: Richard takes care of business in more ways than one.
Author notes: Much speculation below, it might help to have

Comments

[elliotsmelliot]

Thank you so much for this wonderful present. Out of all my prompts, I was hoping my secret writer would pick this one

[primarycolors92]

I'm so glad you like it! (I was more than a little terrified writing for you, especially after reading your epic The Forsaken.)

All of your prompts were great, but I went with this one because I really do find Richard fascinating and under-used. There is so much there with the immortality alone, even without Island politics, that draws me to the character. It must be near impossible to connect with anyone he will see over the course of their lifetime, knowing that he will watch them age and die. Strangers should be easier.

I'm also relieved you liked the comment about laundry- I worried it might be too much, but I got through the whole fic without a single eyeliner comment, so I gave in and left in it!

Again, I am just thrilled you enjoyed!

[tellshannon815]

Love that last scene especially! Interesting ideas with him meeting Charles and Eloise off island, I'd love to see something like that!

[primarycolors92]

Thank you so much!

I too would love to see more of Richard interacting with Charles and Eloise- there's really interesting history there!

[primarycolors92]

There is so much potential for that bunny rabbit, don't you think?

And thank you for all the squeeing! Richard the Matchmaker is rather adorable- he's not your typical yenta, that's for sure.

Thank you so much for commenting!

[janie_tangerine]

Oh, this was great. I loved how you wrote Richard, he was very plausible and IC and I could hear him all the way. I love that he counts in Latin, lol. I really liked how you wrote his interactions with everyone because they all seemed spot on and as someone said you just get how lonely he is in the end even if he seems to have pretty much accepted it. And that last scene, wow. I really loved it, that last line especially. This was great!

[primarycolors92]

Thank you!

I got the Latin from the lovely Wikipedia- it was like doing research! ;)

I really did want to emphasize Richard's isolation, so I'm very glad that came across so strongly.

The last line was kinda nuts, but it was fun to think about. And I'm sure Locke would feel very validated to know that the whole plane crash was all about him.

[primarycolors92]

In that case, thank you even more for reading and commenting!

I've never written Richard before, so it was a fun experiment.

And "detached" is such the perfect way to describe Richard!