The Silver Razor: Ayrshire

[anteros_lmc]

Title: The Silver Razor: Ayrshire
Author: Anteros
Characters: Kennedy, Archie Kennedy
Rating: R
Notes: For eglantine_br, who wanted to know where Archie's silver razor came from. This is also a companion piece to Other Sons. There are several more parts to this but they are currently scribbled in notebooks and on the back of receipts. Hopefully I'll get

Comments

[eglantine_br]

This is written with such believable delicate sorrow. It feels so real.

I have shied away from writing Archie's dad. I know that Archie does not yet see him as he will in later years. We come to see our parents, I think, in the end as individual beings, who happen to have been the parents we got. Archie is not there yet. He is too young, and too hurt still.

Love is so complicated. I am sorry for them both. And teenagers are hard at the best of times. I am sure that Archie know how to speak to hurt.

And I like the detail that deft clever Archie could balance the thing on his finger like his grandfather.

I will, forever now, have the image of Archie's dark haired dad, sitting at a desk, with his head in his hands.

[anteros_lmc]

Thank you. I'm glad you like this. I probably would never have got round to writing this if you hadn't prodded me. I hope I can manage to write up the other parts.

Love is so complicated. I am sorry for them both. And teenagers are hard at the best of times. I am sure that Archie know how to speak to hurt.
Oh yes, definitely. I'm sure Archie was no angel. His father may be quite convinced that he did The Right Thing, but deep down he misses him fiercely.

I will, forever now, have the image of Archie's dark haired dad, sitting at a desk, with his head in his hands.
And if he looks up, this icon is the view he will see from his window. This is Ailsa Craig, from the Ayrshire coast, the pic was taken just a few miels up the road from Culzean.

[rikibeth]

Oh, this is heartbreaking. And lovely.

May I try my own take on the silver razor, to go with my different Archie backstory?

[anteros_lmc]

Thank you.

Of course you can take the silver razor, it belongs to Archie now :) Or at least it will once his father gets round to putting it in the mail!

[collimi]

Thank you, it was very interesting to read about Archies father.

[anteros_lmc]

Thank you! Greatly appreciate you taking the time to read and comment :)

[mylodon]

Lovely piuece.

Isn't it odd? I seem to be the only person in fandom who sees Archie as having a sympathetic dad...

[anteros_lmc]

Yes, I think you're right! Perhaps you always see the best in people :)

I think Archie's father is trying very hard to convince himself that he has done what's best for his son, but I don't think he really believes it.

[eglantine_br]

He has not done what's best. But you have made him seem real and fallible and human, angry and hurt, just like Archie. That is why it hurts to read.

[anteros_lmc]

He has not done what's best.
No. And I don't think he ever knew the damage he caused.

But you have made him seem real and fallible and human, angry and hurt, just like Archie.
Yes, in that respect Archie is very much his father's son.

[eglantine_br]

I remember when I first wrote Dr H. He was one of the few kindly versions of Horatio's dad. But he seemed so real, I could not do him any other way.

[anteros_lmc]

It's hard to imagine Dr H being anything other than how you have portrayed him. You've really brought that character to life.