Lost fic: Civil Wars

[sedauny]

Title: Civil Wars
Fandom: Lost
Rating: PG for language
Characters: Michael, Walt, Charlie, Sawyer
Summary: They were singing round a campfire, like a cliche G-rated father-son bonding movie.  Ist season.
Disclaimer: Not mine, never mine
Notes: Written for lostficchallenge #64, "Inspired by--" but once it got done I wasn't sure it fit the prompt. The

Comments

[sapphire_child]

The Sawyer and Charlie interaction in this was classic - I was actually laughing out loud at their conversation. I loved Walt whispering to Michael as well about Sawyer not realising that the US wasn't the only place that'd had a civil war. Very clever Charlie! He can be a real smart-ass when he wants to be and this is exactly the cheeky sort of thing he'd do, particularly to annoy somebody like Sawyer.

The Michael/Walt bond was nice too. Great use of the Michael POV and it's great to see how the bond between father and son is strengthening slowly but surely. And you have Michael talking about building stuff! I miss season one Michael who was always making plans for showers and stuff down at the caves! He was so much more likeable than the horrible, obsessive Michael we got in season two.

Awesome! Good luck in the challenge!

[sedauny]

Poor Sawyer, when a 10-year old is better educated than him--although I did think Walt had an edge, being educated in Australian schools and being in school now, as opposed to 15 years ago. Charlie knew that neither Sawyer nor Michael was going to realize what was he was singing about--that's why he was signalling Walt.

I missed Constructive!Michael in season 2, as well. I wish we could have gotten more variety from his role. Maybe if they had actually been making better plans for hunting Walt and the other stolen people over the second season, Michael might have had scenes discussing something other than Waaalt! I did try to hint at Michael's obsessiveness at the end, where he thinks that keeping Walt safe automatically puts God on his side.

Good luck yourself in the challenge! I'm still deciding whether to post this there or not, since it doesn't fit with the other entries.

[sapphire_child]

Are our Australian schools reputable for their standards? Awesome! I think it depends on the type of kid that's being educated too but that's beside the point.

I did try to hint at Michael's obsessiveness at the end, where he thinks that keeping Walt safe automatically puts God on his side. - so you did! Very clever of you.

Oh go on! Enter it anyway! You wrote this for it, why shouldn't you? I was inspired by more than one song too but I only used the lyrics from one =P so don't worry. I think it's wonderful!

[elliotsmelliot]

I just loved this. It reminded me so much of early season 1 when the relationships were all so fresh and everyone is testing boundaries. I wasn't familiar with any of the songs mentioned but I almost feel I could hear their rhythm.

[sedauny]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. 1st season was a lot of fun, when you didn't know how characters would react to each other--toss them into scenes like chemicals into a test tube and see which fizzle and which go Boom!

I do have a problem, since I love using music in Charlie fics and I can't post a soundtrack without copywrite problems. I did find an MP3 sample of "Truck Drivin' Vampire" on a catalog website: http://www.firebirdarts.com/audio/kitchentruck.mp3 and there might be one floating around for "Red and Gold," but I'm not sure which are free or fee sites.

[sedauny]

It's a pity Charlie is a rock musician, not a folk musician, or I could really let loose.... I think Michael Longcor has been on Dr. Demento, so I can say that is where Charlie heard of his music, and I thought Walt would like "Truck Drivin' Vampire": it's a silly adult's song, and Walt is kid enough to enjoy vampire jokes. Tom Lehrer does satire and he's kind of a stretch for Charlie, but he started in the late '50s and was still popular at my college in the '80s, so he fit naturally with Sawyer's game of "I Never" and I had to shoehorn him in. I just noticed today that the album that has "It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier" also includes "Clementine" :D. Fairport Convention is folk-rock and I hope not OOC for Charlie because their version of "Home is Where the Heart Is" is so perfect for Desmond that I'm going to have to use it eventually. You can't survive as a busker if you only sing one song, right? Maybe we can get him doing some classical sometime; you know he knows Brahms and I've got a CD of some nice Bach lute suites

[sedauny]

Is he related to the "Geronimo" children call to as they jump off the high dive? I wouldn't call myself a "musicologist"--songs just accumulate, that's all, like compost, and every now and then one has to shovel some out of the bottom of the pile and use it to grow something. ;)

[babydazzle]

[sedauny]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Do you suppose Sawyer's next nickname for Charlie will be "Muzak"?

[janie_tangerine]

Priceless. Charlie playing music is definitely a winner and Sawyer being the American he is and forgetting other Civil wars existed? Even better ;) (even if for a moment I thought of the Guns n Roses song.. XD) And nice to see some S1 Micheal and Walt acting like they were back then without the whole going around screaming 'where's my boy' and all. Great fic ;)

[sedauny]

Guns n Roses did a civil war song too? Poor Sawyer, he is outclassed in the popular music section. He'd better be careful not to tick off a musician who has a taste for satire and for revenge or he may find the (guitar) pick is mightier than the sword. Charlie already knows he hits like a ponce. ;)

I'm glad you agree with me that Charlie/Guitar is an OTP that needs exploring and that Michael was a better character when he was sane. I understand why he's panicking when Walt is kidnapped, but I think there would be more practical ways to use that energy and that would fit with the self control he showed over the letters that Susan kept from Walt and the resolve he showed building a raft twice.

[janie_tangerine]

Well it isn't exactly about the civil war but the title is there.

it's on Use Your Illusion II and IMHO the best song they did after Appetite for Destruction ;)

Ditto about Micheal. It seemed to me that they completely misused him and that in S2 they made him go out of his mind or something because I really liked him much better in 1. And Charlie/Guitar IS a OTP, I think they're just not separable (like Desmond/Blue shirt and Sawyer/Glasses, since objects are way more reliable than people on Craphole Island..).