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Parallelograms (the Both Followed and Led Remix) [X-Men; Scott Summers]

Apr 14, 2007 01:01

Title: Parallelograms (the Both Followed and Led Remix)
Author: musamea
Summary: After Alkali Lake, life goes on at the mansion. Ten drabbles on how Scott's doesn't.
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Fandom: slightly AU X-Men movieverse, with comics backstory thrown in. (The X-Men belong to Marvel and its affiliates. "Eric's Song" -- full lyrics here -- ( Read more... )

rating: pg-13, remix author: musamea, original author: plotbunnytohma, fandom: x-men, character: scott summers

Comments 17

roguewords April 22 2007, 18:00:49 UTC

Oh. Oh Scott. *pets him*

He's so hurt and sees things in black and white, not as they are. *whimpers*

And leaving his students in Logan's hands, like he knew he wouldn't be coming back. Oh Scott.

musamea April 30 2007, 04:15:42 UTC

You're right on the money about the Cyclopean nature of his vision here. Poor thing.

And thanks for the comment (and the rec!)

roguewords April 30 2007, 22:15:37 UTC

Ha! I knew it! *nods*

Yes, very good. Very you, not that that's a bad thing.
(and you welcome!)

likeadeuce April 22 2007, 18:55:38 UTC

Oh, marvelous -- (no pun intended).

I love how you've kept the story of the original but shifted the focus to Scott. I particularly loved his trying to remind himself not to overidentify with Bobby in the triangle.

I really love this picture of Scott and the way the ending sort of fades in to what we saw in X3. Awesome story!

musamea April 30 2007, 04:16:43 UTC

Thank you so much (for this comment and the rec). I'm really glad the focus-switch worked for you, as it was something I worried a bit about when I was trying to figure out how to rework the original story.

likeadeuce April 30 2007, 04:40:35 UTC

You know, I suspected this was you, but I wasn't totally sure. Good to know.

Great story!

musamea April 30 2007, 04:50:09 UTC

Heh, thanks again! And yeah, I kinda felt like this story had me written all over it... :)

st_aurafina April 23 2007, 07:26:51 UTC

I love how Scott sees the same story happening over and over in front of him, with different players. Lovely, and very sad.

musamea April 30 2007, 04:17:52 UTC

Thank you! It's kind of ironic that Scott has this much insight/objectivity when it comes to seeing the parallels in the triangles... and yet he doesn't, not really, when it comes to himself.

lilacsigil April 23 2007, 07:28:00 UTC

Ouch. I very much liked how this followed through from its premise - Scott unable to move on, where the others already have. The odd trust that developed between him and Logan was good, too, giving him the freedom to accept the comfort that Logan was trying to give.

musamea April 30 2007, 04:18:36 UTC

Thank you!

I find the relationship between Scott and Logan endlessly fascinating, so I'm glad it worked for you, here. :)

ficwize April 23 2007, 20:32:20 UTC

Ouch. Ouch. Wow. Wow.

Hehehe, and that sums up my take on this fic. But let me add one more word: freakingawesome!!!

This was so very good. And so very sad and poignant and beautiful and believable. Oops, okay so more than one word, but the last drabble really ripped at me. Excellent job.

musamea April 30 2007, 04:20:02 UTC

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it, and that it rang true and achy. It's funny, because after writing "Way of Grief" I thought I'd pretty much exhausted what I had to say about post-X2 Scott. Tackling it this way, in drabble form, within the confines of another person's story, showed me that I wasn't quite done yet. :)