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[in_the_blue]

Canon: Cowboy Bebop
Characters/Pairing: Gren
Prompt: angels and demons
Rating: G
Notes: It’s Gren, so needless to say spoilers for Sessions 12 and 13. In my personal Gren backstory, he had a somewhat religious upbringing. That comes into play a little bit with this piece.

That’s it? After all this time, after all these years, after everything that

Comments

[lostinapapercup]

This is so sad. :/ I think of flashback!Gren, long and lean, wide-eyed at being saved from that scorpion and then content to have that music box.

Vicious sure is a bastard.

[in_the_blue]

He sure is.

There's an awful lot of fury on Gren's face in this scene. I'm thinking he was more than a little irate.

(Understatement of the century.)

[alienchrist]

I really like the anger in this, from the very first sentence. With Gren seeming like such a gentle, positive character from his interactions with Faye, it can be easy to overlook the fact that he basically died to get revenge on Vicious. What a bad scene. (But wonderfully written).

[in_the_blue]

Thank you. I think it's easy to see Gren as just a ploy for sympathy or as some weird fetish fantasy, but he's really quite complex on a lot of levels, and I don't think that's just me reading more into him than is there. One of the things I love best about Cowboy Bebop as a series is the amount of characterization they're able to pack into a really small space. Almost every single character in the show (at least the ones with speaking parts) have so much humanity... as you well know.

[ashavah]

Oh Gren. You've captured his combination of bittersweet and icy cold anger that is Gren's attitude to Vicious. You've done a great job of capturing a very complex attitude -- because Gren himself is so conflicted -- in just 100 words. Beautiful.

[in_the_blue]

Thank you! ♥ He's like his own little complete universe, isn't he, that encompasses everything as long as it's extreme. One side or the other, all together.

[woodwind]

I love Gren, I remember seeing Jupiter Jazz on TV and being like, "I have GOT to watch this anime through and through!" :D Excellent drabble. It's interesting to think of him with a religious upbringing, never thought of that.

[in_the_blue]

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it!

I figure Gren's already such a study in contrasts, so why not? (He's not like anybody else.) Bebop is actually rife with the whole angel/demon symbolism, and I was challenged not to write this prompt about Vicious and Spike, the obvious choice. I'm a long-time Gren roleplayer so my version of his backstory has evolved over the past... oh, man, it's been almost five years now. He still fascinates me.