That was truly dark, tragic and painful and its left me feeling ragged and sharing Dean's nausea. Did you find it hard to write?
The characterization of Sade and his speech was very convincing.
This part - Understand that exploring every possible depravity is how we discover our true selves! What is your true self, Dean? - reminded me of the vampire that tortured Angel in 'In the Dark' demanding to know who he really was. Whedon revisited the same theme in Firefly 'War Stories'. The torturer in both stories was a reader of the works of Shan Yu. It seems he had a lot in common with Sade.
YES! This was very difficult to write. I had to go over it at least three times once the scenes with Sade were complete, working to intensify the horror and terror--it was hard to plumb those depths so as to make it have that impact. Not easy at all.
I can imagine. I remember how creeped out I felt writing the pov of the serial killer in "Somethign Wicked?". The episode I'm writing now has been really tough, too, because it's so deeply angsty, and the scene I've just posted took a month to write because it was just so emotionally heavy. Exhausting business, this writing thing, isn't it? :P
For some reason when I started reading I was thinking I'd come here via bigpreztel so I was a bit shocked when it turned so dark! LOL Poor Dean - I think you conveyed the sense of violation really well, especially at the end when Sam comes back to himself.
Didn't put me off at all, I love me some well written dark...just took me by surprise! Especially as it started off so light and fun with the costumes - which actually worked really well. So good on ya for attempting something out of your comfort zone and doing a great job with it.
Hahhahaha!!!! Yay!!! :-D It's only my second story into the dark like this, so I'm really glad you enjoyed it!!! You were one of the ones I was waiting to see your reaction :-D
Heh, I think I may have forgotten to mention horrifying in my glee over your masterful kink hitting. You got into Dean's head so well here-the helplessness and the horror of what his body was doing that he had no control over. Really well done.
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The characterization of Sade and his speech was very convincing.
This part - Understand that exploring every possible depravity is how we discover our true selves! What is your true self, Dean? - reminded me of the vampire that tortured Angel in 'In the Dark' demanding to know who he really was. Whedon revisited the same theme in Firefly 'War Stories'. The torturer in both stories was a reader of the works of Shan Yu. It seems he had a lot in common with Sade.
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YES! This was very difficult to write. I had to go over it at least three times once the scenes with Sade were complete, working to intensify the horror and terror--it was hard to plumb those depths so as to make it have that impact. Not easy at all.
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Thank you!!! I think this is one of the most difficult things I've attempted, so I'm glad (sorry??) it came across well.
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Loved this.
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