Who Remix: Five Times Owen Rationalized Something, and One Time He Couldn't

[kayliemalinza]

Title: Five Times Owen Rationalized Something, and One Time He Couldn't
Author: kayliemalinza
Characters/Pairings: Owen, Jack, Gwen
Rating: R for language
Summary: Five moments from TW Season 1
Word Count: 1,678
Original Story: Five Things Owen Harper Remembers and One Thing He'll Never Forget by scarlettgirl
Notes: Written for who_remix. As scarlettgirl said about the original, my remix is "

Comments

[51stcenturyfox]

Owen's never been embraced like this. He feels all the bad bits of himself dissolving and all the good parts growing strong.

I teared up at that, actually.

This really feels like a window into Owen's head.

[kayliemalinza]

I'm glad you had such an emotional response. The structure of the original fic cherry-picked really intense moments from S1 so I'm glad I could do them justice. ^^

You know, this is maybe the second time(?) I've written from Owen's POV. I think that helped, actually; I had to rewatch all those scenes and think carefully about Owen because I wasn't familiar with writing him.

Thanks for your comment.

[captain_bookcat]

Nora's new obsession is Torchwood and she's dragging me along, as usual. so thanks to her, I've been bingeing on it the past week, and can now read your TW fic. yay!

Oh WOW. this is incredibly depressing, but in the best way possible. You rock. :DD

PS: I went and read the original and I like yours better.

[kayliemalinza]

OMG YAY. Does this mean you're gonna read allllll my fic? There's a masterlist, but it doesn't include WiPs-- of which I have a few nifty ones. Which shall never be finished. :/

Thanks! I'm so happy I... could make you sad???

well pfft you HAVE to say that b/c you're part of the Triumvirate. Not that I imagine my LJ friends as ruling members of ancient political systems or anything. >>

[captain_bookcat]

a lot of it, at least! :D will be poking around, fer sure.

what do we rule? the internet? or our own little portion of it?

[merucha]

Oh. That last paragraph. Pure genius.

[kayliemalinza]

Oh gosh. Thanks! :P

[mtgat]

Okay, #2? Wonderful!! And I teared up at the end. Lovely stuff!

[kayliemalinza]

Thanks so much! The Countrycide section was a lot of fun to write.

[neifile7]

Oh, really liked this. It does what good remixes (and good fanfics) do: takes something spare and puts flesh and muscle on it. I like the way you've caught Owen's drift, in both senses: what matters to him and how he sort of skates away from what he feels, all too often. That's difficult to pull off, and you do it with real assurance. Wow.

And I have to say that I've been waiting for someone to do something interesting with the not-quite-parallel between Owen's pheremone-roofie in Ep1 and the rape-murder in Ghost Machine. Using his rationalizations as the point of departure works brilliantly for that, and then the other elements just kind of fall into place. I especially liked his "doctoring" Gwen and the parallel you drew with Jack there, and the line Now, his duty is to make sure that she scars.

May I friend you? I'm a longtime if lurky fan. :)

[kayliemalinza]

Thanks so much for your detailed comment! I especially like your play on words with "drift." I didn't think of it that way while writing but it makes a lot of sense. That's a great way of thinking about the fic; thanks.

Heh, once I realized that (at least in this interpretation) Owen was basing his morality on Jack and Gwen's opinions, the rest of the piece did fall into place. Jack and Gwen really are the moral backbones of the show-- which makes it realllly interesting when they do morally shady or outright morally deplorable things.

You are welcome to friend me. :) This is probably the last TW fic I'll write, though, so don't feel obligated to friend if you're just here for the fic. I probably won't friend you back, but that's only because I keep my flist insanely small in order to cut down on procrastinating. Most of my entries are public and I'm always happy for people to randomly comment.