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[sour_idealist]

Title: Neurons of Murderous Dancers
Fandoms: Inception & Black Swan
Characters/Pairings: Lily, Nina, Beth, Thomas, Erica, Ariadne, Arthur, Eames, Yusuf
Rating/Warnings: R, violence, disturbing imagery, symbolic references to canonical sexual assault (there's a common warning), Black Swan spoilers
Written for: book_las, prompt "[character] dreams about [

Comments

[anonymous]

First of all, I've never seen Inception. Second of all, it absolutely didn't matter because the focus was so centered on the twisted world of Nina's mind. I loved that the metaphorical monsters of Nina's life were given literal interpretations.
The dance instructor who pushes her into sexualty becomes a dance-rapist. Her overbearing mother who shoved her own broken dreams down Nina's throat enjoys smothering people. Beth whose path Nina follows almost exactly to the letter, from being to the lead ballerina to a suicide attmept (though, really, Nina didn't attempt suicide. She attempted murder, and it just didn't quite work out...) and in the dream, those that follow her die.
And, ah, Lily. Lily who has killed them all more than any other. How to interpret that lovely tiddley bit. Obviously, Lily has played a major role in Nina's rapid descent into madness. She was in fact, the focal point of Nina's paranoia. Lily who was sabotaging her, was trying to steal her role, was sleeping with Thomas, and tried to kill her there at the end. But the shipper in me wants to believe that Lily is there for a more subtle and, to be quite honest, gay reason. I just haven't got the logistics worked out yet....lol.
And this turned out much larger than I'd intended. I just really wanted to tell you how amazing I thought this fic was and that I really hope you find the time/inspiration to continue it. It is simply lovely. Absolutely lovely.