Comments | eponine119: Lost fic: The Monsters in the Jungle [Sawyer drabble]

eponine119

Lost fic: The Monsters in the Jungle [Sawyer drabble]

Feb 04, 2007 09:31

Disclaimer: Lost is not mine.
Notes: Written for Lost Riffs at lostsquee, prompt Today is your day to do something you have NEVER done before. The other day Zelda_zee had a discussion about past vs. present tense, and I realized I'd never written future tense. Then here comes this prompt to give me a reason to try. In 2nd person just for kicks. Using for fanfic100 #24, ( Read more... )

[lost_fanfic]-sawyer, [lost_fanfic]-all, [lost_fanfic]-fanfic100

Comments 17

demonqueen666 February 4 2007, 22:49:25 UTC

You won't be afraid of death; you've been looking for it all along.

Eeeeee.

eponine119 February 5 2007, 01:07:19 UTC

Thanks! (I think.)

demonqueen666 February 5 2007, 03:53:47 UTC

Oh no, that was definitely a compliment...albeit a very ineloquent one -_-;

inthekeyofd February 5 2007, 00:14:05 UTC

I love the drabbles, and I love that Sawyer is looking forward to that, in a sort of twisted way, he needs that, to see that--the island may be the best thing that ever happened to Sawyer.

eponine119 February 5 2007, 01:08:12 UTC

I'm glad you like the drabbles. I was feeling like I was maybe a little over drabble-y lately.

I'm still drawn to the idea that the island is the best possible thing for all of them, giving them what they need most, but these days it's harder to believe it.

uhzoomzip February 5 2007, 01:23:26 UTC

ooh, that's chilling. but so sawyer - like with polar bear, he'd stand his ground where others would run.

the last line is great - i'd love to see that conversation.

great job! :-)

eponine119 February 5 2007, 01:28:41 UTC

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :D

jenthegypsy February 5 2007, 01:39:08 UTC

Love it! Drabbles represent some of the best writing, because a good one is super concentrated excellence, just like this. I hope think that when Sawyer confronts it, he will pass through the fire and be found worthy. The Island is changing him - is allowing him to change - and I think he will face his demons and finally rise above them.

&hearts

eponine119 February 5 2007, 03:39:08 UTC

Thanks. Sometimes I feel like drabbles are cheating, but then it takes almost as much work to make them compact as it does to write a "real" story.

When I was thinking about this piece, I realized that Sawyer may have already confronted it -- the boar. That sort of scares me, that it was taunting him, and at the same time, he passed its test.

alliecat8 February 5 2007, 05:53:18 UTC

I haven't read the other comments. I hope I'm not being unoriginal. But it's stupid that Jack's daddy-issues made him see HIS daddy in the jungle, but Sawyer has only seen a metaphoric boar. Or maybe that's not stupid but smart; Sawyer is a reader and so he would think in metaphor and Jack wouldn't. Yeah, I like the second thought better. But wow, I really want to see Sawyer face his own dad in canon, especially since we've seen Jack do it so many times with Christian, who didn't do NEARLY the number on Jack that Sawyer's dad did on him. We MUST find a way to make that ^^^ canon.

And p.s. -- I posted tonight to make that fic get out of my head; do NOT feel obgligated to read it til the mood strikes, 'k?

eponine119 February 5 2007, 06:16:13 UTC

I think it made sense at the time for Sawyer to see the metaphoric boar. Partly, like you say, because he is less literal minded than Jack. And because at the time (and possibly still) what's going on inside him was more about Duckett than his parents.

That said, trying to imagine Sawyer facing his dad in the jungle gave me the creeps, and I wrote the damn thing.

And p.s. -- I posted tonight to make that fic get out of my head; do NOT feel obgligated to read it til the mood strikes, 'k?

Is that a warning? ;) I've been waiting all day, you want me to wait some more?! Not that I'm hanging on your every word or anything...