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Preliminary Investigations, Part 2

Jan 12, 2009 23:52

[Featuring: serenityw, tristan_taylor_, featuring new NPC's Private Investigator Kendall Seec and his assistant, whose name I refuse to give away at this juncture.]
[Scene: Continued from Part 1. Private Investigator Kendall Seec offers Serenity some much-needed counsel. Backdated to October 26, 2007]The offices of Kendall Seec were tucked away in the Bronx in predictable ( Read more... )

steven, tristan, serenity

Comments 3

nightengale January 14 2009, 05:54:05 UTC

Oh, god, so much squee for this one. First off - Kendall Seec? Even though I know the story behind that, it's *still* funny. Moving forward, however:

she huddled behind his broad back and tried not to flinch every time they passed someone with blond hair.Jesus fuck that cuts deep. Joey writhes - that Red thinks of Steven before himself when the prompt is "blond male in his 20's." Just ow ( ... )

ysabet January 14 2009, 23:57:27 UTC

Joey shouldn't writhe about that-- in a weird, sideways blind-spot kind of way, it's a compliment. Red does *not* register him as a 'blond' or even a 'male in his 20's'-- in her radar, he's a Joey. Or more like THE Joey, actually, (though you can tell his ego to shush right now) and it took a startled second for her to go "What--?" and figure out why it'd bother him. They, he and Steven, aren't in the same mental category at all; it'd be like recognizing a California Redwood, Tristan and the Empire State Building as kind of the same because they're all three tall. (and now Tristan's ego can stop grinning.)

And Mama Taylor is WONDERFUL. And so's her son. And Mister Seec's gonna have his work cut out for him, I think.

seto_kaiba_ January 16 2009, 05:29:52 UTC

The psychology behind everyone in this piece was solid and believable, it read smoothly and I read it with the same eager attention that I do a good book, no expectations just open to whatever comes next. That 'rotweiller' line stopped me as well, actually impinged on my consciousness and made me stop for a moment to read it again.

Yes, Seto is very 'selectively blind' in monetary respects, which is a wonderful phrase for it, in the sense of a horse's blinders, rather than a willful one.

Kendall is the right sort of jaded, it seems to me he *uses* his cynicisim as another tool rather than letting it define him, which just may be a large clue as to why Seto would hire and recommend him.

I've got a lot of respect for both Serenity and Tristan, doing something hard, different reasons for them both, but valid, because it is the best thing to do.