Drabble: Nice Work (Moonlight/Heroes; Josef/Adam)

[the_grynne]

I'm working on the drabble requests but they are coming along slowly - too many assessments, too many tempting ideas (thanks guys!). I'll try to get through as many of those as possible in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, transtempts has made me want to write my Moonlight/Heroes OTP

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[the_grynne]

Josef, for all his playboy lifestyle quirks I think, is at heart an Architect (in the old World of Darkness terminology). He likes to build things of significance, he takes a public role in managing vampire/human affairs. Adam is very different, tending to stray more from place to place, if you look at his checkered past with his spouses. It's quite ironic that the first time Adam tries genuinely to make a difference, by starting up the Company, it all turns out so badly. :)

[ghostrunner7]

So cool, also :laughs:, I love the "group yawn" transferance of ideas in fandom. My first thought upon clicking this cut tag was, "Hey, didn't transtempts just..."

[the_grynne]

transtempts is such an ENABLER! :D

[the_grynne]

Thank you! I'm so happy that you liked it. :)

They have a lot of similarities, to be sure, but it is just as interesting - fic-wise - to think about their differences. Adam is much more singular, a free radical, and alone. He wasn't inducted into a global society of vampires. As far as he knew for a long long time, he was the only one there was. And he's also much harder to kill than Josef, so he doesn't have to take as many precautions in his life. Over the centuries, I think those differences feed into their characters. There's a tradition in vampire lore that as a vampire gets older, he/she gets more and more paranoid, feeling the risk of death more keenly then they did as youths. For Adam, it's not like that. He is eternal. He can have children (whereas the last ep of Moonlight established that Josef never did, and regrets that). Adam's in every way a man...but not.

If you're looking to read more of this pairing, might I direct you to this great story by transtempts?