An Excess of Regret

[iceshade]

An Excess of Regret
Sin: Gluttony
Character: Owen
other characters/pairings: a passing mention of Jack/Ianto and the rest of the team
Rating: PG-13 (for language and death)
word count: 800
Spoilers/Warnings: set post-A Day in Death
Summary: for tw_lucky_7. Owen’s thoughts about being dead and what he misses, and he’s not bitter at all, thankyouverymuch.

A/N: I

Comments

[remuslives23]

What a lovely way to look at things. I agree about the darkness being a transitionary thing rather than 'it'. :)

Loved the fic! I am so interested in fics that touch on the relationship between Ianto and Owen - particularly after TYTNW or after Owen's 'death'. This was a fantastic look at that - and you captured Owen's voice beautifully.

Edit: icon no reflection on fic. It's my only Ianto/Owen icon. :P

[iceshade]

Thanks, writing Owen was also a first for me here, so I'm glad I got his character right. Ianto and Owen are like siblings at times, they fight and do prank-like things to one another, but no one else is allowed to.

that is a great icon.

[ontinia]

Oh god, I’ve become a nerd! Owen had cried out one day not long after Tosh had set the system up in his flat, I spend my days chasing aliens and cataloguing funny artifacts and my nights playing video games.
I giggled. *shame*

Buuuutt, I really liked this. It was wonderfully written. I think you got Owen's POV down pretty well indeed. And Yeah. Just. Awesome.

As for your personal POV, I basically agree on all counts.
I believe in an afterlife and God. I don't talk about it much but it is part of who I am.
I too think that is why there is 'nothing'. That or because Time (or Bad Wolf if you will) is all knowing, Owen and Suzie were in a sort of Limbo because it knew that they would come back and couldn't pass on yet.
Mostly I believe the not remembering.
Yes, because they could be driven mad by what they know or just the fact that they aren't supposed to remember. Y'know?
It's called Faith because that's what it is. There is a reason we all don't have Fact in our religion. (does that make sense?)

[iceshade]

Once the video games became part of the fic, I knew I had to have a line with Owen lamenting the fact that he was now the nerd/geek he'd have given a swirly to before. (okay, maybe not that extreme, but still). I was afraid I would put Owen across as too much of a prat because I've never written him, so I'm glad I didn't.

I was worried about putting that it in there, but I felt like the writers were trying to push THERE'S NOTHING ELSE on us too hard, and this is something I've been wanting to say.

[ontinia]

The writers were trying to push that too hard, or at least that's how I felt.

[iceshade]

I watched the declassified, and those are also usually a sure-fire way to get me in a Gwen hating mood,* for that episode and one of the things they keep saying is how that scene with Gwen and Suzie in the car in talking about OMG THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE is the entire point of the episode, and I'm like: PSHAW NO, that would be the stopwatch scene, bitches and how they knew they couldn't cut one minute of it BECAUSE IT IS PERFECT OMG.
personally I thought it dragged on, and I skipped most of it during my rewatch when I was trying write my lust-fic. ::shrugs::

*End of Days --> omg Gwen is so perfect and she really did the right thing in having a total meltdown and getting the team to mutiny, but it's okay because she did it out of love AND SHE REALLY SAVED THE DAY BLAH BLAH BLAH
(meanwhile, I'm trying to find a way to bitchslap people over the internet still)

[thrace_adams]

I think this was a great look at Owen.

And as for your views...I totally agree :)

[iceshade]

Thank you :)

[anyjen]

This is awesome. I can totally see Owen having these thought processes... he was a bitter fella when alive, and now he's even more bitter (bitterer?) in death. Bad choice for a zombie... if it had been Tosh, I can see her seeing the benefit of being able to spend all night tinkering with alien technological stuff or, well, playing videogames on an alien console (she seems the type to log in at night to pwn everybody online for a couple of hours before going to bed).

I loved that Jack invited himself over to play. He really is like a big child sometimes. And Ianto bringing Owen coffee when he was being an evil bastard is made of win. XD

[iceshade]

Thank you. I think part of the reason it was so bad was because he was so used to living a life of gluttony before (o hai thar prompt).

I feel that out of everyone Tosh would have been the least bitter if it had happened to her, because the writers gave her no outside life, and would have found a way to make it even more awesome for herself

she seems the type to log in at night to pwn everybody online for a couple of hours before going to bed
Oh definitely. XD

[szm]

Great look at the relationship between Ianto and Owen. Love that Ianto was the one who got him the games console and also is the one who brings him coffee when he's out of line. That seems very much 'them' to me.

[iceshade]

Thanks. I think Owen and Ianto definitely have that snarky sibling-like relationship going on. Ianto does look up to Owen, but knows that he needs someone to tell him when he's being a jerk.