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Fic: Chain Link Fence

Jun 02, 2011 21:26

Title: Chain Link Fence
Author: tawg
Rating: M
Word count: ~6,700
Warnings: Angst, injury, character death. The usual SPN fare.
Spoilers: None, set during season five
Notes: This fic follows on from Old Cars, which was written for the ‘Back from the Dead’ commentfic meme.
Summary: With Castiel ducking out of his vessel, Jimmy tries (and largely fails ( Read more... )

series, rating: m, character: gabriel, pre-slash, supernatural, beggars and choosers, fic, words: 5000-10000, character: sam, character: jimmy, character: dean

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tawg June 5 2011, 23:06:17 UTC

Ooh, thank you for pointing out the Britishisms! I've taught myself to write "mom" instead of "mum", but a lot of the time I don't even realise when I'm using one.

Lol, I like Team Vessel. 'The Rapture' just implied a lot of things about what being a vessel meant, and angels always seem so apathetic towards vessels. I'm glad you liked Gabriel - I was worried that it would be tough toeing the line between Jimmy's ignorance of who he is, and giving the reader enough information. Which, in retrospect, was silly of me. Gabriel is larger than life, and will always shine through.

miscellanium July 1 2011, 15:26:21 UTC

Oh this is lovely. The pace and tone feels very season five, worn down and grimy, and you've got so many nice touches here and there (Jimmy's love for Claire, my heaaaart) that it'd be nearly impossibly to pick them all out. I have to second Lassiter wrt Gabriel, too. He's not quite deus ex machina, but not just a story element - much like his canon self, and fitting for an archangel (obviously). Well-played indeed.

So glad you continued this!

adams_ransom July 2 2011, 04:32:52 UTC

I'm glad that it has a season five feel - The Rapture felt to me like an episode that was all about losing hope and losing freedom, with Jimmy playing the archetype of how the supernatural life can never be left behind, and then Castiel realigning himself with heaven. It's an episode that takes the series message of 'you can't fight what your life is' and just hammers it home. That's why I like the idea of Jimmy and Gabriel hanging out - because they're two characters who want everything to be fine, have that horrible realisation that the apocalypse is determined to pee on everything they love, and end up sacrificing themselves for their families. They have such different approaches to life while following very similar paths.