collecting the three-sentence fics, mostly erik/charles edition

[luninosity]

Here're the Erik/Charles two, plus one Brandon Sullivan/Johnny Martin, because, well, someone asked, and I'd actually never written a McFassy character pairing (Erik/Charles doesn't count) before! The McFassy fic will go up in the next post. :-)

Title: and they bloom even in the winter (brandon/johnny)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 277
Summary/Notes: for

Comments

[telperion_15]

Well, you know already that I love mine, but I really adore the Johnny/Brandon one too - the way it uses words, and picks out hints of both their characters (and they fit surprisingly well together when, on the face of it, they come from very different films, and therefore you'd initially think it wouldn't work at all...)

[luninosity]

Yay, to the first comment! :-) And, yeah, it was interesting, I've never really written character pairings for the McFassy, and that one wasn't one I'd've envisioned personally, but it was a challenge! I initially wasn't sure--they're both addicts, after all, and sometimes that might be a bad thing, if they slip and have bad habits...but, on the other hand, that also means they both understand just how hard it is to come back from those dark places, and then there's Brandon wanting to be a jazz musician, and that made it make sense, in a way...

Life isn't perfect for them, yet, but they're complementing each other's strengths and shoring up each other's weaknesses, and that's something. :-)

We're finally caught up on Doctor Who! Hooray. :-)

[girlinventor]

Oooh! I want Dorian!Charles and Erik saving him so there's a happy ending. Very tempted ...

Here, have (finally) a link to my first chapter of the Princess Bride McFassy:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/789651

[luninosity]

Feel free to take the idea and play with it, if it's inspiring! :-) (And of course there's a happy ending! How could there not be...)

Ooh! Have now read, and it's so much fun! And I just want to hug James, at the end; am reminded of the line in the novel about how grief turns Buttercup from a pretty girl to, truly, the most beautiful woman in the world... And there will be more, yes? With Dread Pirate Michael? because that is all kinds of yes. And thank you!! :D :D

[shayzgirl]

Definitely like these. I, being the Johnny/Paul shipper that I am (and I do sort of wish I'd thought to ask you to write a thing for them but I was trying to stick to pairings I knew you liked and could/would write), am still not overly fond of Johnny/Brandon, mostly because I just can't see them working well together being both addicts. While yes, they'd both understand the difficulties of addiction, I just fear that they'd both destroy each other more than help each other, especially with how different their addictions are. But you definitely wrote them both well (especially Johnny, I get kind of picky when it comes to Johnny, a character I love a great deal).

And I still adore the Charles/Erik ones, especially the Dorian Gray AU one. One of my favorite stories.

[luninosity]

Yeah, I was actually kind of surprised someone asked for that, because people who know my fic know that I don't really write character pairings for them! But I figured, it's three sentences, why not try...

I'm still not entirely convinced I properly 'see' that pairing, either, but I got myself to write it by thinking about how they would understand each other, and Brandon's wanting to be a jazz musician. So they've got that, at least: Johnny can be his new obsession, but that gives Johnny the support he needs to pursue music...or something like that! :-) And yay, I'm glad the characters came through, at least--I know you're a Johnny fan, and so am I; he's interestingly complicated, and he's got a good heart. So I'm glad I could do that justice, on initial try!

I find Wilde both witty and a bit too cynical, generally speaking. I've only read Dorian Gray once, and I kind of felt about it how I felt about Trance: glorious work, provocative, decadent, artistic; but now I feel depressed about the state of humanity... Still, the language

[shayzgirl]

I've done the same thing with three sentence fics. I don't think I'm that good at writing Charles/Erik, but for three sentence fic I'll do. Same with someone who requested Charles/Wesley one time (though I kind of stuck more to brotherly than relationshipy) but if it had been proper fic request I would have probably said no. I do understand wanting more attention/fics/etc for a little ship like that, Comp and I are the only ones you've written Johnny/Paul, but I'm not going to ask other people to write it unless I know they'd be okay writing it

[luninosity]

too many times I've seen "Johnny/Brandon because they're both addicts" and that's not enough for me.

No, not enough for me either! That was partly why I made them both *recovering* in my ficlet; I do think they can understand and support each other if they've already gotten to be strong individually, but it'd be awfully difficult for them to pull each other up while still fighting. The music just gave them a common anchor. :-)

I like the plays better, I think. Wittier lines, and (sometimes) less cruel. We did Ernest in school and read lines out loud, and it was fun. (Ah, *those* classmates. There's always at least one. Cue teacherly ire...) And I like the idea of Charles as a more sympathetic Dorian--he'd try to live forever, not out of vanity or cynicism, but in order to go on helping people!