Dude, this just brought back how much I hate Ruby. Not because you wrote her poorly, but because you wrote her so well. How she manipulates Sam and takes advantage of his grief, and just... GAH!!!
Still, Sam is an adult and responsible for choosing to listen to her and isolate himself from everyone else. There is this interesting bit:
Dean had grown to epic proportions. To listen to Sam talk, the sun rose because Dean decided to fart it out his ass. Dean had become his religion, and Ruby had been around long enough to understand the power inherent in that idea and the lengths it could drive Sam to.
It holds a terrible truth, really. And is a double-edged blade. It brings hope to balance the despair of losing Sam to Ruby's machinations. Because Dean? Is still around, in some form. And that implies there is gonna be hell to pay at some point when the truth comes out. Mmm.. Meep!
Ruby is . . . kind of incredible to write. Because, well, I don't like her, either, and getting into her headspace was kind of bizarre to say the least. I'm glad what I've got here rings true for you -- that was my goal on this.
if she wanted him to trust her, she had to keep the line between dead girlfriend and new ally clear until he decided to blur it Wow, fuck. This is Ruby, pure, ambitious, and in her own way, looking after Sam. The quick snapshots of a world tremlbing on the edge of an apocalypse, Sam's descent into madness. SO compelling.
God, you've got Ruby so down it's frightening. It's funny, because in spite of her being a colossally two-faced biotch, I got a very strong sense that Ruby had formed some kind of emotional attachment to Sam. She cared about him -- loved him even, I think -- in her own twisted, demonic way. She faked a lot of stuff (obviously), but I don't think she faked that weird bond she had with him. It was too tender at the end, when she could have been gloating and monologuing.
And you've captured it here so perfectly (only without forcing me to picture the terrible acting skills of Genevieve Cortese!). Well done. Seriously well done.
Ruby is sort of fascinating to write, for all the reasons you listed (and, yeah, it was nice to picture Adrienne Palicki instead of GC -- though I think she gradually improved over the course of that season).
I've always hated that manipulative Ruby Bytchh. Sam always did have women problems. It all went downhill after Jess.
>>>The moments they had between the sheets were both when Sam showed the most sanity and the least grip on reality. In those moments of pleasure, the grief that clouded over his gaze seemed to lift, and Ruby could swear he almost saw her for what she really was. The most ecstatic she'd ever felt involved straddling him there, staring down into his eyes as he acknowledged her for the vicious creature she was and accepted her, accepted her lessons and begged her with his gaze to bring him to the same level.<<<
That's some pretty powerful writing. It just shows so well how insidious Evil is. Great job! :)
I was honestly mostly afraid that I'd hate where they decided to take Ruby as a character. I think she was very well developed, strictly from a storytelling sense.
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Still, Sam is an adult and responsible for choosing to listen to her and isolate himself from everyone else. There is this interesting bit:
Dean had grown to epic proportions. To listen to Sam talk, the sun rose because Dean decided to fart it out his ass. Dean had become his religion, and Ruby had been around long enough to understand the power inherent in that idea and the lengths it could drive Sam to.
It holds a terrible truth, really. And is a double-edged blade. It brings hope to balance the despair of losing Sam to Ruby's machinations. Because Dean? Is still around, in some form. And that implies there is gonna be hell to pay at some point when the truth comes out. Mmm.. Meep!
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Wow, fuck. This is Ruby, pure, ambitious, and in her own way, looking after Sam. The quick snapshots of a world tremlbing on the edge of an apocalypse, Sam's descent into madness. SO compelling.
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And you've captured it here so perfectly (only without forcing me to picture the terrible acting skills of Genevieve Cortese!). Well done. Seriously well done.
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I'm really loving how you're kind of sticking to the original story, but in the new context of your AU. Absolutely inspired!
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>>>The moments they had between the sheets were both when Sam showed the most sanity and the least grip on reality. In those moments of pleasure, the grief that clouded over his gaze seemed to lift, and Ruby could swear he almost saw her for what she really was. The most ecstatic she'd ever felt involved straddling him there, staring down into his eyes as he acknowledged her for the vicious creature she was and accepted her, accepted her lessons and begged her with his gaze to bring him to the same level.<<<
That's some pretty powerful writing. It just shows so well how insidious Evil is.
Great job! :)
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Thanks!
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