Comments | game_byrd: Bricks in the Wall, Chapter 88: Head Game

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Bricks in the Wall, Chapter 88: Head Game

Nov 23, 2014 20:49

Title: Head Game
Characters: Sylar, Peter
Words: 6,300
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mild abusive behavior and messed-up thought patterns.
Setting: The Wall
Summary: Peter blows Sylar's mind. Sylar returns the favor. POV shift to Peter in the middle.

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bricks, rated nc-17

Comments 9

means2bhuman November 26 2014, 03:35:04 UTC

Oh, wow. This is long and lovely. I've read it about four times now!

game_byrd November 26 2014, 04:04:41 UTC

Yay! Let me go rush off and post what I wrote today!

game_byrd November 26 2014, 05:52:20 UTC

As I remarked to someone who commented on AO3, this version of Sylar has Asperger's Syndrome, and probably more than he had it in the show (I'd buy that he didn't have it in the show at all).

Also, Peter is VERY lonely here, desperately so, which I think fits with an ASD Sylar and Peter recognizing the signs.

means2bhuman August 13 2015, 08:34:37 UTC

I love Peter’s moment of ignoring the touch. It (touch) is so familiar to him that he doesn’t react to it each and every time. It shows his trust in Sylar ( ... )

game_byrd August 13 2015, 12:22:35 UTC

The fingers were from one of your fics, yes. I get little things from all over that inform my writing and I really liked the finger thing. Not that I think Sylar would demonize any particular part of his body as being responsible when the rest of him wasn't, but I think he'd recognize it as the instrument that carried out the killing.

I made Peter way more forward and willing in this fic than normal, but we don't see any of the lead-up. It's implied in Sylar thinking about how much touching Peter had tolerated. For Sylar maybe that was just testing limits. Peter more likely took it as foreplay, and for this fic at least, didn't have a big objection to it.

means2bhuman August 13 2015, 09:01:29 UTC

Peter’s mockery about the uncleanliness of the mouth is awesome, again, putting Sylar in his place, forcing him to think about his own opinions and desires ( ... )

game_byrd August 13 2015, 12:33:58 UTC

Do I see Arthur as being that prejudiced ( ... )

also, I flubbed game_byrd August 13 2015, 15:43:49 UTC

He remembered sitting in front of the TV in the 80s, ... while Peter had sat there, slumped on the couch at the age of sixteen,

LOL! Um, that should be in the 90s, not the 80s. Either I had a typo or somehow substituted my own age for Peter's. Neither seems likely, so I don't know what happened, but I'll go edit the entry to read '90s' from now on.

Re: also, I flubbed means2bhuman August 14 2015, 22:33:48 UTC

That's hilarious! I never noticed.