Comments | mytay: Fic: Mad World, Chapter 5

mytay

Fic: Mad World, Chapter 5

Oct 14, 2011 23:01

In here, a wallflower sees more than others do, sees the danger to Kurt before anyone else . . . and tries to do something before it's too late.

Warning: The violence comes out in this chapter - it isn't fully described, but it is there, and heavily implied besides.

( A part of her marvelled at Kurt's ability to rally himself and still keep on fighting. Another part of her was mentally yelling 'Shut up, idiot, and stop drawing attention to yourself!' But, then again, even barely knowing him, since when had Kurt Hummel ever been afraid to draw attention to himself? )

mad world, character: mercedes jones, character: burt hummel, character: carole hudson, character: finn hudson, character: blaine anderson, glee fic, characters: whole glee club, character: kurt hummel, characters: the hudson-hummel family

Comments 21

ramenplease October 15 2011, 04:46:07 UTC

YOU CAN'T JUST.

NO. OKAY,NO.

I NEED THE NEXT CHAPTER, AND SOONISH, BECAUSE OTHERWISE I WILL PROBABLY E'SPLODE AND THEN THAT WILL SUCK.

KEYBOARDSMASH. I love your stuff! You rock, stay gold, update soon.(Please.)

mytay October 16 2011, 03:59:00 UTC

I'M SORRY! Really, truly! Please don't E'SPLODE, that would be SAD! Also, you're AMAZINGLY AWESOME, I'll try and stay gold as nature's first green, and I'm going to update ASAP (likely tomorrow :D)!

fara1903 October 15 2011, 06:07:30 UTC

OMG! Hope Kurt is ok! It was pretty stupid of Ida to confront Azimio, luckily Dave soft of interrupted them!

mytay October 16 2011, 04:02:14 UTC

You'll see how Kurt is real soon and in detail :) Ida's actions could be viewed as stupid - or even reckless/impulsive - I find it interesting that that's how you see it! :D Many thanks!

morgan_d October 15 2011, 06:33:36 UTC

Yes, THAT girl. ^__^ You know, I remember wondering about her since the very first time I watched "Never Been Kissed". Wondering what she was thinking, who she was... Was the actress really supposed to react that way? Or was she supposed to ignore the bullying just as everybody else, but was too taken by the violence of the scene to do so? So I started reading this chapter, thinking, "This is a surprise, now she's an actual character!" and five seconds later I was thinking, "Well, of course, this is definitely the story that would have her as an important character ( ... )

mytay October 16 2011, 18:34:31 UTC

You had the same reaction I did to that particular scene in the episode (though mine didn't occur until after a second viewing) - I've always wondered if she was directed to react that way, or if that was just a choice she made due to the unexpected degree of violence? Either way, I thought it was brilliant.

Everything in your comment made me all squirmy and bouncy with delight :D Honestly, my reasons for depicting Ida as one of the 'invisible ones', as you put it, was to make her as objective an observer as I could - and it sort of turned into more than I meant it to. Because you're right - people who stand on the sidelines need to react and take action in order for any change to happen.

"I like that Ida could have been anyone, really. You made her very realistic, easy to relate to, but not so specific that she lost the quality of being representative of a whole lot of people that could help change things by taking action, as she did. " *more happy squirming and bouncing* Oh . . . thank you so, so, so much. I felt terror on ff.net ( ... )

20thcenturyvole October 15 2011, 07:30:12 UTC

Oh my God, my heart was in my mouth for the last half of that. I love Ida! The POV was so well done here: her admiration and her crippling hesitance came across very well, and her role in the locker room incident was excellent - no sudden font of courage, just a single outburst of compassion and outrage before she collapsed back into the fear because oh God, she's in a room with a psycho.

Poor Kurt. ): But I am hoping for some serious jail time for Azimio, and this seems like exactly the kind of incident that would lead to Figgins making changes or else.

mytay October 16 2011, 18:48:51 UTC

*squeals* Wow, thank you so much! Ida was sort of scary for me to post - I mentioned this in the above comment; she's basically an OC and I was terrified of how people would respond to her . . . so you've just eased a boatload of worries! *hugs*

Your description is so, so lovely: " . . . her admiration and her crippling hesitance came across very well, and her role in the locker room incident was excellent - no sudden font of courage, just a single outburst of compassion and outrage before she collapsed back into the fear because oh God, she's in a room with a psycho." :D Okay, the psycho bit kinda had me laughing, but it was such a perfect summation of Ida and what I wanted her to be, and it thrills me because it is also the exact description of what was going through my mind when I was writing the locker room scene, which went something like this: 'This girl is not Wonder Woman - it's going to be one awesome moment of awesome, followed by endless "Crap, what the hell was I thinking?!" panic'.There's going to be a lot of 'Poor Kurt ( ... )

spookykat October 15 2011, 09:09:25 UTC

Oh poor Kurt!

And Ida! I kind of loved her and I love how you portray her here. She just rings so true and I kind of didn't want this chapter to end, especially with such a horrible cliffie!

Please update soon!

mytay October 16 2011, 19:03:15 UTC

Thank you so much! The amount of 'squee' I'm feeling knowing people don't totally hate Ida, it can not be accurately described :D I apologize for the cliffie, but I promise to post the new chapter at some point today! *hugs* Many thanks, darlin'! :D