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Dollhouse: Waiting for Our Lives to Start Their Ending

Jul 05, 2010 00:16

Title: Waiting for Our Lives to Start Their Ending
Fandom: Dollhouse
Characters/Pairing: Claire/Topher, Ensemble
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~5,500

( Waiting for Our Lives to Start Their Ending )

pg-13, dollhouse, claire/topher

Comments 17

juliet316 July 5 2010, 04:43:50 UTC

So heartbreakingly sad. Poor Claire, poor Topher.

kay_obsessive July 6 2010, 01:51:19 UTC

Thanks for reading!

rocketgirl2 July 5 2010, 04:52:13 UTC

Oh my. That's so lovely. I normally don't ship Topher/Claire, but I do believe you've just made it work. :) Your fic is so lyrically written and so, so sad. I love it.

kay_obsessive July 6 2010, 01:53:07 UTC

That's an amazing thing to hear when you're writing a pairing, thank you! =) Glad you enjoyed it.

aaronlisa July 5 2010, 04:57:39 UTC

This just killed me.

This was really well done and I loved how you wrote Claire and Topher.

kay_obsessive July 6 2010, 01:54:14 UTC

Thanks! Glad to have done them justice.

duh_i_read July 9 2010, 07:28:56 UTC

I don't watch too much of Epitaph One because every time I do, without fail, I cry at the end.

I really, really like this story, but I dunno if I can read it again for a while.

Topher's decent into madness and their weird little relationship was spot on, and I felt for them both to the point where I started crying right at the last section and didn't stop.

kay_obsessive July 9 2010, 20:20:43 UTC

Epitaph One is a gorgeous piece of television, but I skimmed those flashbacks as much as I could while fact-checking this thing.

Really glad you liked it, and I'm pleased to have evoked a similar reaction to the episode.

(Also, I have a friend in graphic design, and that icon is fantastic.)

duh_i_read July 9 2010, 20:53:47 UTC

I appreciate the attention to detail and your connections between what we saw in E1 (Topher's modification of the chair, is a well crafted example), especially because the time find myself fascinated by is the-right-after-hollow-men-but-before-the-tech-gets-loose peroid of time.

+1 for making me sob like a child all over again.

(I'm a bit of a font snob, so sometimes there is no higher praise I can say to someone.)

kay_obsessive July 9 2010, 23:19:50 UTC

That's the part of the timeline I'm most interested in, too. A lot of people have been writing for the time between Epitaph One and Two, which is also interesting, but I wish a little more attention was shown to this era.

deternot August 22 2010, 05:15:28 UTC

This is a beautiful fic, thanks for sharing it :) You really got Claire and Topher's voices down.

kay_obsessive August 24 2010, 02:53:31 UTC

Thanks for reading! Glad you enjoyed it. =)