The Haunting of Woman Wept

[holdingoff]

Title: The Haunting of Woman Wept
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Coda Part 2, Children of Earth
Disclaimers: I should own Torchwood and its characters. I'd do a damn sight better job of caring for them than those pillocks.
Notes: A sequel, of sorts, to When Even the Ashes Have Faded Away. Warning: a Thrace warning is in effect.

Comments

[explodeyy]

That was really amazing.
The fact that he memorized Ianto's diary and carved them in caves. God, I love this.
Heartbreaking and beautiful.

[holdingoff]

tears were the target. i don't think we've shed enough yet.

[holdingoff]

the diary kinda snuck up on me. i imagine he kept the diary and after copying its words onto the walls after a while, the book fell apart but he had it memorized by then and just kept going. yeah, i went for really, really broken.

[firefly124]

Excellent. *sniffles*

[holdingoff]

maybe that will be the last of the CoE demons exorcised.

[fide_et_spe]

Another great one from you. This is rather beautiful. I also like that it's a natural progression, Jack is already rather bonkers, surely eventually he would become something like this, and you intimate that it must be for hundreds of years. Gosh I really like the ideas. I love the use of Woman Wept, I love the images of the ice. The writing, that is incredible, I love that idea of the carving of the words, over and over obsessively.

I see someone mentioned In the Shadows, and it's funny that you haven't heard it, as Jack's character does head down this road in that. EM's voices may annoy you though, she isn't as good as GDL, who does such great accents. (His vicar voice is hilarious)

[holdingoff]

i knew what in the shadows was, i just haven't listened to it.

woman wept just begs to be a place of mourning from the description given on DW and i really do think that if jack snapped, he would sink and never come back unless someone pulled him out. i mean, there's got to be some residual not-quite-right from nearly 2,000 years underground, right?

imagined that jack started copying out of the journal, but over time the book fell apart and he'd read and written the words so many times by then that he just continues to do so, like a broken record.

if Moffatt wants to make use of Capt. Jack, I think the results of CoE would definitely lend themselves towards the transition to the Face of Boe. But I'm still not sure how much I'd be interested in seeing JB working with 11, the dynamics are going to be just too strange.

[kitsune_flame]

This was beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[holdingoff]

hopefully i've worked out my post-CoE frustration at this point...

[jsks]

heartbreaking beautiful.

[holdingoff]

apparently, i was on a broken kick and needed to exorcise some CoE demons.