There's a First Time For Everything

[petbubble]

Title: There's a First Time for Everything
Pairing: Pinto
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Zach always tops. Well, maybe not today.
Disclaimer: We do not own the actors, unfortunately. Not even as pets.
Word Count: 4712
Authors: petbubble and leandralocke
Authors' notes: I think there's a majority opinion in the fandom that Zach always (or mostly) tops when Pinto get down to

Comments

[sylars_charm]

Good job! Liked this very much. :)

[petbubble]

Thank you so much!

So what are we writing next? *laughs*

[sylars_charm]

LOL

I'm switching gears and doing a Sylar/Spock/Kirk. Pinto needs a rest; I'm brain dead regarding them at the moment. Ever try writing first person Spock? Damn hard!

I love the challenge.

[petbubble]

My co-author writes Spock in the Spuhura that we also write (don't stone me, please?). She does a great job on all of his pov's - but I could NEVER do it. Too much logic, rational thinking and lack of emotion for me. Plus every (or almost every) observation, opinion and expression is given in factual rather than emotive language. Much prefer being the human in the pairing.

Can't wait to read it though!

[sylars_charm]

Writing unemotionally is difficult, and I don't always adhere to that, as Spock Prime admitted in the movie that he does feel. I figure, if I'm writing first person, he can occasionally say, "I feel..." because he does, in fact, feel. As I am alternating viewpoints between Spock and Sylar (Kirk is incidental but extremely important to plot development), I get to write first as Spock, then as Sylar. It's so much fun. :)

[petbubble]

True - plus Spock is half human, so he's always going to be battling both sides of himself, even if it is mostly internalised. Giving the outward impression of emotional control doesn't necessarily mean you believe it inside, does it?

It sounds a really interesting crossover; have you started writing or just fleshing plot out at the moment?

[sylars_charm]

Four pages finished already and it's shaping up nicely. However, It's going far more slowly than other recent stories, simply because of that damn first person Spock. I keep rewriting his narrative to tighten it up, remove the obvious emotional content, make it sound like him.

However! If you listen to his speech in the movie...although it was more formal than the humans around him, he did NOT have a stick up his ass. Lots of people RP him so stilted, it comes off weird. There is a balance to be struck here, and I'm finding it.

[petbubble]

He also has a bloody good sense of humour ('better served roaming the corridors weeping'? :D) which a lot of people choose to ignore. I like to think (and read) of him as being formal in an old-fashioned human way rather than rude or un-feeling. After all, he's humanoid not robotic!

And seeing how well you get into the heads of your characters I can't wait to read his voice. I'll be keeping an eye out for the link.

[sylars_charm]

Thanks! The encouragement is welcome. I am loving this story and it may take a while to get it up (so to speak, because of course there must be hot sex between SOMEONE in this story) as I am crafting it very carefully. It's a take-off on the RP I started with @xSpockx and never finished (because his RP group is comprised of of possessive amateurs who refused to let him follow that story through to its logical conclusion). Idiots.

So I'll write it instead and it will be good. :)

[petbubble]

Oh yes, hot sex is a MUST - even if Spock holds out on Sylar :D

And it's a shame when RP politics interfere with a good plot, and having been involved in that world a little myself I know how difficult, annoying and frustrating it can be when people's views about plot and cross-overs clash.

[sylars_charm]

I respected xSpockx enough to let him go, but it bummed me out major that a plot we both agreed was very doable and exciting as hell got sidelined because some people don't understand it's RP, not RL. I play Sylar (duh) and I interact with lots of different characters, both in and out of my RP group.

*shrug* I need closure. This story will provide that, though I think it will go in another direction than the story being told on Twitter. This Sylar may be much darker than mine and not nearly so patient or forgiving.

[leandralocke]

Oh god yes. That balance is difficult. I think when I started writing Spock I was making him a tad TOO logical and unemotional, because I always kept thinking "woah I don't want people to think I'm making him too emo and too sappy and what would he really say? Would he use this word? Does he even say 'feel'? Does he even in his thoughts acknowledge affection or anger or whatever?"

But yeah, I'm getting there, I think... hope *g*

From all characters I've ever written, Spock is the most challenging one because it's such a very, very thin line between making him believably 'emotional' and going OOC.