As Sin's True Nature Is, Part Three - Fantasy and Reality

[pandaklok]

Title- As Sin's True Nature Is, Part Three - Fantasy and Reality
Author - pandaklok 
Rating - PG-13, no sexytimes this chapter.
Pairings - Pickles/Toki, very brief mention of Nathan/Skwisgaar
Summary - Pickles and Toki answer the call of the open road, but recent events come back to haunt them in an unexpected way. Murderface tries to cheer up Skwisgaar.
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Comments

[zsomeone]

This is a very twisty story you've got going on here.

I'm actually rooting for Skwisgaar to wise the fuck up, but that seems pretty unlikely because I get the feeling that you're staying T/P on this one.
Reduced to palling around with Murderface, poor guy.

Seth seems almost less douchy that usual here. I'm sure that will change though.

[pandaklok]

Thanks! I really want to get everyone's feelings across and not just go the whole "Skwis is slutty and selfish" and "MF is a dick" routes. I mean they are those things but there's more to the characters than just those negative qualities and I wanted to explore that.

Seth is playing nice for now, yeah. ;)

[w_the_polluter]

WhaaaAAAT? Man, I had my suspicions once you used the word "predatory," but damn. Seth is like, Pickles' evil twin. Except, y'know, not his twin. Close enough, though.

There are some interesting parallels between the events of the road trip and the goings on at Mordhaus. The stifled sighs and eyerolls alternating between characters; the knocks on the door that turned out to be unexpected guests (hell, I thought it was going to be Charles or Nathan at the hotel, and for some reason I'd forgotten you mentioned Murderface in the summary); and Toki and Skwisgaar's respective breakdowns. Ffffffu, emotions.

Once again you have the guys' psychology down to a T, and they remain in-character. At first I was going to say that the only exception might be Seth, because while his intentions and, uh, lasciviousness are perfect, I couldn't hear his first few lines of dialogue in his voice, for some reason. I think it was his speech pattern. But then, this was at three in the morning, and now that you said that he's being less douchey on purpose

[pandaklok]

This, other than Kiddieklok which is an AU, is the first time I've really written Seth, so I might not have him totally down just yet, I'll admit.

I never even picked up on all the parallels going on, myself, interesting.

[eevee_baby]

Gotta agree with Z- I can't help but feel that Skwissy will come to his senses, realize that he has to get Toki back, change his asshole ways, and they will live happily ever after and lots of smut.

As much as I wish this will happen, something tells me it won't. I don't mind P/T though, so it will be so awesome to see where this is going. Very well done so far!

[pandaklok]

It can be really hard when you have an OTP, reading a fic like this. Kudos to you for reading and sticking with it though, most diehard S/T shippers probably wouldn't! :D