Comments | scarletts_awry: the tower

scarletts_awry

the tower

Oct 21, 2006 22:15

This ficlet was mostly something of an exercise. There may end up being more to it; I don’t know. I mean, I feel like I've barely scraped the surface of what kind of Mac issues come up in conjunction with the set of ideas represented by the Tower card ( Read more... )

genre: gen, char: stella bonasera, fic, genre: stand alone, genre: ep-related, tone: memory, char: don flack, fandom: csi:ny, char: mac taylor, tone: fellowsoldiers

Comments 9

buffyangellvr23 October 22 2006, 03:46:09 UTC

Nice piece...*wants to hug Mac*

scarletts_awry October 24 2006, 23:09:30 UTC

Thank you. :) Yeah, Mac needs a good hug after everything.

afteriwake October 22 2006, 04:58:49 UTC

I think you really nailed Mac in that one. I could see him having that very nightmare after that event. Great job. And I had to use the same icon you used...you made it and it's just very appropriate...

scarletts_awry October 24 2006, 23:17:22 UTC

Thank you. It's such a small moment that I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but I suspet that Mac's mind can be a scary place sometimes.

this is one of the very few icons i've made that i'm really proud of, and Mac breaks my heart in that last scene

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scarletts_awry October 24 2006, 23:58:48 UTC

Thank you. She really does get him. I love the relationship between Stella and Mac (platonic or not) because it's deep and complex, but it's almost entirely without fanfare. It just is.

snufflesdbear October 22 2006, 23:29:15 UTC

I adore all your stories. I can not believe how, no matter who you write, the voice is always perfect. This was great. Thanks
Tamy

scarletts_awry October 24 2006, 23:13:06 UTC

Thanks. I always wonder about and work on getting the voice right. maybe it helps that I've got a lot of voices in my head ;D

stellaluna_ October 23 2006, 03:27:46 UTC

Just gorgeous - this is a sad and sinister look at what Mac is going through in the wake of the CoTP bombing, and I love the description of the nightmare he falls into. It highlights, so perfectly, his fear and his sense of responsibility and failure, and how the bodies just keep piling up. How much it seems this is what's fated to happen to him.

And I just love this line: Soot thickens the air, and the glass walls unfold like paper flowers.

scarletts_awry October 25 2006, 01:23:41 UTC

Thank you. I don't know if I would've tidied this up enough to post if I hadn't liked that line so much. Mac's so... he doesn't deal well with helplessness (not that many people do), but he's been confronted with semi-helplessness several times in quick succession, culminating in the bombing.