Fic: Hard Times Don't Come (Suicide Kings, Brett/Avery, PG)

[carolinecrane]

Title: Hard Times Don't Come
Fandom: Suicide Kings
Pairing: Brett/Avery
Rating: PG
Summary: Homecoming. Part of the Deadliest AUniverse created by duckduck and myself during our summer fangirl trip

Comments

[duckduck]

Oh! This is seriously the best thing ever! I could almost cry. Thank you so, so much for this. ♥!! You just redeemed this ridiculously awful day. Thank you so much.

ps. THE HAT!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!

[carolinecrane]

Is it sad that I love the idea of this universe so much that I don't even care if you and I are the only ones who are ever interested in it? Whatever! I don't care, because I love it too much!

I was going for subtle with the hat. Avery really wanted to compare him to Elmer Fudd, but I told him he was too tired. So he just nodded at me and stood there grinning like a sleep-deprived loon. I think the manly, rugged outdoorsmanship makes him *more* comfortable with who he is, which is interesting since you'd have to be pretty closeted in that environment.

Just wait until Brett finds out he's going back, though. Hoo boy. Will I ever write it? Who knows! But it's fun to think about.

::wishes she had an icon of Jay Mohr in a buffalo plaid huntin' cap::

[duckduck]

You and I understand the subtle sophistication of Buffalo plaid. That must be it. (an aside, I actually OWNED a buffalo plaid jacket when I was in 7th or 8th grade. It was supposed to be all, "I'm an angry junior high punk rocker and I don't care if I look like a lumberjack," but I suspect I just looked like a maple syrup farmer. Or that I was hunting wabbits.)

I wholeheartedly approve of Avery becoming more himself, growing into his own, in Alaska. Not to sound like a perv, but I bet Brett notices the changes in Avery's body. He's less lanky, now. His muscles are defined. And when he stands, he's somehow taller than he was before. More sure of his body and what he can do. This Avery sort of makes my brain short-circuit.

Honey, if they can make icons of people with pancakes on their heads, I'm sure someone can make you an icon of Brett in an Elmer Fudd hat. Sadly, that someone can't be me, because I have no skills.

[carolinecrane]

Dude. No one will ever make me an icon of Brett in an Elmer Fudd hat. People just don't do that sort of thing for me. I have a feeling it's my abrasive personality. Or my persecution complex. Or the fact that no one but you and me care about Brett and Avery in what is, let's face it, the ultimate cabin cliche AU crossover extravaganza.

Their True Love deserves better, it really does.

I think Avery is my favorite thing about this universe, and considering how whipped I generally am over Brett, that is saying a LOT. But who could not love the way he's clearly growing into himself and gaining confidence, becoming the person that Brett always saw, even when Avery didn't have the courage to realize it. And yeah, he needs Brett a little less these days, but he wants him all the more, so it's a trade-off that Brett can live with.

Or he will, if I ever get them to a point where there's making out. Man, this universe rocks so much more in my head than it does in the two measly fics that have been written.

You and I understand the

[cinderlily]

BRETT AND AVERY. <3

I have to admit to mainlining episodes of Deadliest Catch on HD and spending the entire time thinking, "Why am I doing this? Oh yes, cause I am weird and I like picturing Caroline's verses in my head." I don't know if I can picture Avery with a mountain man beard, but WOW do I want to and I love Brett being overprotective and resenting it and making him food and kind of being the wife here. (Way to be me with my feminism here, but you know. The 1950's heteronormative ideal of a wife.) I love that you give their emotions validity and yet keep them so very much in character.

(And this random response comes to you from too much Psychology of Personal Identity studying.)

[carolinecrane]

Ha! No, I was totally thinking as I wrote this, "Jesus, I'm making him the wife." And Brett was like, "Yeah, you fucking are butIdon'treallymindbecauseheneedstoeat." So cute, my little curmudgeon.

Avery with a mountain man beard is a little scary, it's true. This icon is as close as we get, which I think is where he'd keep the facial hair on a normal day. But when he's out on the water he goes all primal and comes into his own and there's no way Brett's not going to find that hot.

[cinderlily]

Primal Avery is kind of hot... and I have a huge "I HATE BEARDS" thing so you know.. that is saying something. And that icon is pure love, so maybe I just think Avery is hot in general and he somehow goes around the beard thing? I don't know. Either way. YUM!

And I love love love Brett in your head. And the fact that you use the word curmudgeon. And, well. You in general. <3 :)

[carolinecrane]

I'm not really a beard person either, but on Avery it's symbolic or something? His outward symbol of an inward epiphany or something.

Curmudgeon curmudgeon curmudgeon! I even like to type it :) And really, there is no other word for Brett. Except perhaps misanthrope. Also a good one!