...okay now I can, like, actually read it. Hold on.
So now I've read it and holy damn, you've nailed it. I've wanted to see fic of this pairing for ages because there's something about these two that suggests they have chemistry, but you've turned that interaction way up and it all fits perfectly. Both of them are so in-character, which is always a tricky thing to accomplish with characters who don't get all that much screen time. But yeah. You've made this work well. Sigint is one of the few MGS people even more underappreciated than Zero, so it's especially great to see him written with the complexity he deserves.
“I'd never slept with a man at all before tonight. I guess that makes us just about even, doesn't it?” SIGINT <3
It's reminiscent of the time he hired Dr Clark and had to explain, to his bewildered team of hardened military men and refined gents with multiple degrees, that the pretty lady in the chiffon scarf could out-smart just about every one of them. Out-talk them, too, but that was another matter. Yep, this right here is one of the reasons Zero's among my favourites. ...and his entire team too.
There was Jack, of course, perhaps his greatest indiscretion, but Jack is passion, and fire, and he does not talk; his lips are not loose. Zero wonders if Jack cares at all about gender, or whether he cares more about the experience itself than the anatomy of who he's fucking. He suspects the latter. Jack does not talk, because he considers it nothing to talk about.
Yes.
“I'm not,” Zero replies, and rubs his forehead with the balls of his hands. God, he's so young, so full of fire, so dismissive of the trouble he might find himself in. A Negro who sleeps with other men. With other white men. With other white men of a senior rank. And yet, here he is, caressing Zero with wide, flat hands, eager to repeat the experience.
Yes.
“I can make you feel young,” Donald says.
And he can. Oh god, he can.
YES.
And really, I've quoted a few bits and pieces but this whole thing is so well-composed and spot on, I could be here all night (the night is young).
I'm so glad to see this pairing happen, let alone in such an awesome way. Thanks for writing this.
Enjoy the Sigint/Zero tag you've brought to usage. :D
I'm so glad you liked this. I'd been trying to think of a way to write them for such a long time and your prompt made it clear to me how best to approach it. It's hard keeping them in character since there's so little established character to stick to, but that's kind of fun too - extrapolating from canon. SO YES. I'm really glad you liked it :D
I'm glad the prompt helped and yeah, it's impossible not to address the fact that both of them would've had it difficult in this situation (and Sigint more so). You seem to like writing "minor" characters for the exact same reason I do as well :DD This was really great; let's hope people get inspired by it!
By the way, did you type it as "A03", i.e. "A[zero]3" on purpose in the header
YOU DID IT. AAAH YOU DID IT YOU ARE THE BEST.
...okay now I can, like, actually read it. Hold on.
So now I've read it and holy damn, you've nailed it. I've wanted to see fic of this pairing for ages because there's something about these two that suggests they have chemistry, but you've turned that interaction way up and it all fits perfectly. Both of them are so in-character, which is always a tricky thing to accomplish with characters who don't get all that much screen time. But yeah. You've made this work well. Sigint is one of the few MGS people even more underappreciated than Zero, so it's especially great to see him written with the complexity he deserves.
“I'd never slept with a man at all before tonight. I guess that makes us just about even, doesn't it?”
SIGINT <3
It's reminiscent of the time he hired Dr Clark and had to explain, to his bewildered team of hardened military men and refined gents with multiple degrees, that the pretty lady in the chiffon scarf could out-smart just about every one of them. Out-talk them, too, but that was another matter.
Yep, this right here is one of the reasons Zero's among my favourites.
...and his entire team too.
There was Jack, of course, perhaps his greatest indiscretion, but Jack is passion, and fire, and he does not talk; his lips are not loose. Zero wonders if Jack cares at all about gender, or whether he cares more about the experience itself than the anatomy of who he's fucking. He suspects the latter. Jack does not talk, because he considers it nothing to talk about.
Yes.
“I'm not,” Zero replies, and rubs his forehead with the balls of his hands. God, he's so young, so full of fire, so dismissive of the trouble he might find himself in. A Negro who sleeps with other men. With other white men. With other white men of a senior rank. And yet, here he is, caressing Zero with wide, flat hands, eager to repeat the experience.
Yes.
“I can make you feel young,” Donald says.
And he can. Oh god, he can.
YES.
And really, I've quoted a few bits and pieces but this whole thing is so well-composed and spot on, I could be here all night (the night is young).
I'm so glad to see this pairing happen, let alone in such an awesome way. Thanks for writing this.
Enjoy the Sigint/Zero tag you've brought to usage. :D
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I'm so glad you liked this. I'd been trying to think of a way to write them for such a long time and your prompt made it clear to me how best to approach it. It's hard keeping them in character since there's so little established character to stick to, but that's kind of fun too - extrapolating from canon. SO YES. I'm really glad you liked it :D
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By the way, did you type it as "A03", i.e. "A[zero]3" on purpose in the header
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