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It looks like some of us were scratching our heads and wondering why there wasn't more incest fic in the XF fandom.
Mulder's paranoia always correlated with actual real-X-File-life threats, so we don't think of him as, well, warped.
Actually, I do kind of think of him as warped. But I think I know what you mean.
But this story--so starkly told, like a cautionary folk tale or a classic tragedy--displays the incest nightmare that for all we know is one from which he actually woke up sweating.
I think my first reaction to finishing this story was to burst into tears. I don't think I did much better this time around. I was obsessing about the ending all day at work. It does feel like a tragedy, doesn't it?
The conclusion eerily displaces Scully from wife to sister.
Yes, and right from the beginning, she's just as lost to him as Samantha ever was. He's been on the run for years. Years. Before the story even begins. Alone, no contact with anyone from his past, not even Scully, except through those PO Boxes.
This is a fic to visit, not to live in.
Amen to that.
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About the incest thing. Nobody mentioned it on the first go-round, but I'm thinking by now most of us have read 1,000,009's Gingersnaps for Oedipus. Also brilliant.
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