30 Days Second Semester: 17, Misery Loves..., #Addergoole Yr9

[aldersprig]

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "17) write an uncomfortable story."

Faerie Apocalypse ( LJ Link), Addergoole Year Nine, the day after "Say Yes." ( LJ).
Thorburn seemed jittery and uncomfortable on Wednesday, as if somehow he’d been the one to get the wrong end of Tuesday night. It grated on Ceinwen, set her teeth on edge. What

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[lilfluff]

Aw, you mean getting a slave through mental manipulation doesn't mean you don't have any headaches? Aw, poor Thorburn, you make you choices you have to live with the consequences.

(Hmm. So, how many of the students actually stop to think and take into account that the geases aren't permanent, and that the will eventually be facing someone with free will again?)

[aldersprig]

*giggle* no sympathy for Thorburn, hrmmm?

((Seems like not many; in their "defense;" they're teenagers.))

[lilfluff]

Heh. Thorburn is on the watch and judge list. We'll see how he does from here out.

And yes, teenagers and good thinking don't seem to often go well together do they? I recall making a number of, shall we say less than ideal decisions back then.

[aldersprig]

Yeah, I have to continually remember that when writing addergoole stuff. Teens.

Thorburn... Yeah. I alternately want to slap and hug him

[eseme]

Give him headaches. You go girl!

Ahem, but we knew who I was rooting for.

[aldersprig]

I don't actually see this one as a competition, long-term.

[eseme]

It is now though, and I think she has the right to be combative.

I am hoping that Thorburn turns out to be more decent than I think he is. I'd like that.

[aldersprig]

Hunh. I think you have a different read on this than I do, and that's ok.

[kc_obrien]

I (at the risk of coming off as some churlish misogynistic predator) love Thorburn as a character. He's in such a tough position; there's this girl he likes, and society/indoctrination says to make her kept. So he keeps her and she IMMEDIATELY loses it, chafing at the thought, let alone the reality of being kept.

He's broken, so terribly terribly broken. It's like "Say Yes," where he's fighting against himself and desperately doesn't want to take advantage of the bond, but does in the end because he can't bear that she hates him so damned much.

I know, to a lot of people he's a villain and a rapist and half a hundred terrible things, but he's also a boy whose upbringing is nothing compared to what our societal norms are. It's killing him.

Such great story.

[aldersprig]

Yes, that... thank you! *hug!*