Comments | enfantefatale: stick close to the lines

ladygawain in enfantefatale

stick close to the lines

Jan 08, 2012 01:03

Summary: A day in the life of Matt Donovan
Rating: pg
Category: Matt (appearances by: Vicki, Caroline, Bonnie and Damon)
Spoilers: general spoilers for season 3
Words: 1781
Notes: I started working on this a long while ago to a prompt on softly_me's ficathon that was something like "working class hero" and it just never sort of came together for me? I'm ( Read more... )

rating: g, character: matt donovan, tv: the vampire diaries, pairing: gen, writing: how the hell do you do it?, this ain't no good

Comments 3

ever_neutral January 10 2012, 15:24:56 UTC

BELATED COMMENT. Only just got to reading this now, but -- glad I didn't miss it. I do not really care for Matt, but if anyone would make me enamoured of his POV it'd be you, haha. This is so perfectly mundane and just, somehow desperately sad in its DULLNESS, I don't know, maybe I'm too used to the high intensity drama of all these other characters? But Matt is rather sad and lonely, and you've made him sympathetic and tangible (? is that the word? something like that) here in a way only does infrequently for me.

Also love the little snapshots of Bonnie and Damon, those two in particular just leap out at you.

ladygawain January 10 2012, 15:49:58 UTC

Matt is just so incredibly sad to me. Like, what does this poor kid do all day but dream about getting out of Mystic Falls, escaping all these supernatural shenanigans, and being somebody but being faced with the continued reality that he probably will never get out. I can just sort of see him taking over the Grill and manning bar for the rest of his days? Poor kid.

I just want to love you, Matt Donovan, but you make it so hard. They need to give him an episode like the Zeppo one day, just so we can understand what this boy does while all his friends are chopping hybrid heads off with meat cleavers.

Thank you, thank you, dear!

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ladygawain January 10 2012, 21:02:27 UTC

Your Matt love gives me life, seriously. Because I actually do identify with him a lot in terms of how bloody miserable his life is and the whole need to be overly-functional in a not-always-functional home situation? Also, habitual brokeness. Also, having recently lost an older brother who, much like Vicki, sat with me when I was afraid of the dark and laughed at my taste in music etc., a lot of that part came from a very personal place ( ... )