The fic that I've been working on for this round is still in development, but I didn't want to leave you all hanging without content, so here's a small offering. I hope to have my other fic finished for the Free For All.
Title: Convergence
Author: ClawofCat
Timing: S7
Rating: PG-13
Words: 603
Summary: Set during "Lessons," we learn more about Spike, the
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Poor crazy, mixed up Spike; so broken and alone. You've done a great job showing just how tragic he was.
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Given how crazy and mixed up he was, he sure seemed to get over it quick, too. I always thought that was a failing on the part of the writers. The transitional process was sort of skewed and made more complicated by the whole triggering subplot. It wasn't exactly able to unfold naturally.
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It’s just one of the innumerable faces he dreams of in the dark.
Love that line as the accompaniment for that first moment between them.
Well done.
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Love that line as the accompaniment for that first moment between them.
Much like Spike's fantasies about saving Buffy in all sorts of ways, along with his hallucinations of killing her, I think he must have also dreamt up various scenarios for their eventual meeting post-soul and how she would react to seeing him. Kinda like his dreams when he's taken hostage by the First and she rescues him.
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"He doesn’t hesitate with the gun this time. Big bad, big weapon and he blows a hole through her, the drop of her body on the porch like the crack of her back on the tub. The hole in her chest gurgles when she cries no, pushing at him as he forces himself in. Hand on her heart, teeth in her neck, cock in her cunt, he makes her see the real him." - I love the way you make him see himself. There was no getting around this part, just like there's no getting around the bathroom scene.
You're amazing, and I'm glad I got to see more of your writing.
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And thanks for the kind words, TC. It flows like a dream, beautiful and scattered everywhere. - is what I was going for, except perhaps this nightmare is a hell of Spike's own making. When I was working on this I really wanted to capture that amazing melding of imagery that Joss & Co. tried to visually show us during the dreams in "Restless." Just like all the sets got pushed together so characters could run into and between familiar places, I tried to smush and twist similar memories of Spike's together to create this natural flow of thought. It's free association in a lot of ways.
I love the way you make him see himself.
I've always thought a key part of the soul vs. unsouled paradox in the Buffy verse is not just that these vampires feel tremendous guilt for their actions, but they gain insight into how others saw them. They come to understand who and what they were. When faced with the horrifying reality of how much suffering they inflicted, they turn that suffering on themselves ( ... )
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Ah, no kinder words could be said about this piece. Thank you so much. I tend to write in short form - ficlets & one shots - so word usage and word economy are really important to me. If the space is limited, then the words have to have power to deliver the desired effect. I'm glad that the ones I chose here worked for you. Spike speaks with such lyricism and maintains a beautiful sense of dignity despite how broken he is in "Beneath You." I tried to capture that part of him here in the words.
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