Once Less, With Feeling by misura / Jack/Owen / PG-13 / round #1

[misura]

Title: Once Less, With Feeling
Author: misura
Pairing: Owen Harper, Jack/Owen
Rating: PG-13 for language rather than anything else
Fandom(s): Torchwood, Doctor Who (a teensy little bit)
For: fandom_meElements: Jack/Owen, empathy. (I like Empathic!Owen. It explains so much, sometimes

Comments

[wildestranger]

Most exciting and original, and a very enjoyable read. :)

[misura]

Thank you - while I'd certainly aimed for 'enjoyable', I hadn't dared hope for 'exciting' and 'original' (considering how many fanfics there are for this fandom already and all). ^_^

[misura]

I guess ... people finding out about Lisa and Ianto retconning them is one of my favorite pet-conspiracy-theories, because, well, she's in the basement. And empathic!Owen would probably notice a difference between Ianto-before-he-went-to-check-on-the-generator and Ianto-after-he-went-to-check-on-the-generator, so this simply seemed too good an opportunity to resist.

Thanks for the positive comments!

[jigot]

There's not much good Owen fic around, which is a shame because he can be a really intersting character. But this is great. I like the thought of Owen being at Torchwood One and the Empath idea allows you to play with lots of threads without producing an overly long piece. Lovely :)

[misura]

Thank you very much! I was actually pleasantly surprised when my muses got all fired up for this prompt - I've never really written an Owen-centric piece before that was longer than 500 words or so.

[invisible_lift]

Okay, this whole piece is fascinating. You write a very sympathetic, deep Owen -- something that's really only starting to be the done thing -- and I think you dig out some possibilities in the other characters that are both very true and kind of gruesome.

I like the idea of Torchwood One having a cumbersome, paperwork-heavy, and costly solution to resignation, and Owen having gone through it.

All in all, fantastic.

[misura]

No evil organization would be complete without several miles of red tape and paperwork - although I suspect the forms for having a suspicious colleague picked up by Internal Affairs would be a lot easier and quicker to fill out than those for a resignation. (In the original plot, I actually had Owen trying to resign several times, with Torchwood simply wiping his memories of having done so, but I realized it would be very hard to imply their doing so in a story written in Owen-third-pov, so I limited myself to a resignation-interview which also made me able to drop Ianto's name. Presumably, after Canary Wharf, resigning would be a lot easier.)

For the record: I do like Ianto - he's got a wonderfully dry sense of humor, he's efficient, he looks good in a suit, and so on. Every time I re-watch Cyberwoman though, he scares me. (Ah well, he makes great coffee, so giving people the choice between drinking his coffee and having him shoot them might not be that gruesome a thing to do.)

Thank you very, very much for your enthusiastic

[darthhellokitty]

This is good, very well told! And I have to say the final paragraph made me smile, which isn't very appropriate but that's me.

[misura]

I'd definitely rather you smiled than burst out crying or something along those lines - and in a sense, I suppose there is a certain irony or romance to the whole cyberwoman-in-the-basement thing.

Thank you for the positive comment!