Dark fic.

[septemberoses]

Title: Rage/The Dark Fic (excerpt)
Author: septemberoses
Fandom: True Blood
Rating: R for force, insanity, betrayal, abuse
Pairing: Eric/Godric
Word Count: 1700
Summary: Godric uses his powers of command to force Eric into something that he doesn't want to do.
Note: This is an excerpt from an as-yet-untitled Dark Fic that I have been working on

Comments

[withoutcolor]

love this, it was so good. poor eric, i always feel so awful for eric, though i really loved being in his head here. the dynamic between what's his & what's actually Godric is really well written and so intriguing.

will we be getting more of this dark fic, hmm?

[septemberoses]

I thought it would be interesting if Godric could command him subtly -- manipulate him like that, although Eric figures out (too late) what's happening. This fic is a repository of my creepier ideas.

Yes, it's several thousand words. It's a series of vignettes, each different, of things like this (shudder). Power plays. Torture. I guess I posted the excerpt because I was curious whether anyone would read/comment.

[berthablue]

Yes, it's several thousand words. It's a series of vignettes, each different, of things like this (shudder). Power plays. Torture.

This comment just made me grin in the most depraved way :)

[septemberoses]

When I run out of new ideas for abuse, I'll get some poor sucker to beta it for me. But I have a couple more vignettes sketched out first, and God help me I have no idea how to "end" it. It may just stop.

[blissy83]

I can't wait to read the whole fic as this excerpt is really good and extremely dark, thus I like it...A LOT ;)!

Poor Godric, if this is what his maker used to do to him and he still has this trauma 2000 years before, quite sad.

And the way you wrote Eric's thoughts and Godric's mixed in his head is so disturbingly provocative

[septemberoses]

Those icons you made are so beautiful. I love that one of Godric.

Yes, it's a dark!fic that I think you will like, although it doesn't mesh with the rest of my fics entirely. And it's a place to work on some of my details about how vampires hurt and heal, which let's face it, isn't that consistent in the books/show.

[gruochrua]

I've been craving a dark fic, as you know, and this...whoa. The suffering and the cruelty were so tangible. There is something profoundly creepy, as well, in Godric forcing Eric into the role of his tormentor (originally his maker, perhaps?). It made me cringe, which is exactly what I wanted. Ugh, I'm a horrible person sometimes. But it's cathartic, and that's sort of the point of this fic, right? Purging...only poor Eric, to be used like that. I felt for Godric, but really most of my sympathies were with Eric.

[septemberoses]

In this dark fic, it's partly about Godric getting his masochistic needs met. (and yes, in his worst times, he turns toward the abuse he got from his maker) I have mixed feelings about this, in terms of meshing with my personal canon for these two. For instance, while I think it's plausible that Godric *could* command Eric like this, it's such a wretched thing to do to him. My sympathies were totally with Eric as well in this vignette, although the entire fic is a series of vignettes and the sympathies shift.

I'm curious, do you see this as working at all in the construct of who you perceive them to be? I'm writing it regardless, but it's dark and more than a little creepy. Cathartic, for sure, which is what this snippet was for Godric as well.

I am ... I think ... taking some of my personal canon (their power dynamic, Godric's mental state) to its most extreme in this fic.

[gruochrua]

It is creepy, yes, and disturbing, but honestly I think it actually makes a lot of sense. I think Godric is all about the suffering--it's very much a part of him. He obviously has a lot of guilt that's piled up over the years. I mean, he wanted to burn to death. What a horrible, painful way to die. And I think it's reasonable, too, that he would use Eric to revisit these unhappy moments and perform a sort of penance. It's rather cruel to poor old Eric, but there's such a trust and a bond between them that goes back for ages. The self-mortification has much deeper meaning, and a greater release, when Eric is the one who is, in a sense, punishing and absolving. I think Godric has a very hard time forgiving himself, but he can sort of do that indirectly through Eric. Is this making a modicum of sense, or am I just rambling?

[septemberoses]

Yes, it does make sense. Their relationship is so intimate ... Godric chooses Eric to punish/absolve, a twist on the same intimacies that had me choosing *Godric* to administer the tribunal's nasty punishment in Obedience. Because as Godric said, if it was going to be someone punishing Eric, he'd rather it was him. And I can't help thinking of the weirdly overlapping fic-concept threads between this part of their bond and the way you just explored it in your fic. It's the same deep bond, deployed in wildly different fashions.

[berthablue]

Man, I was just thinking of how awesome it would be to read some lovely, dark fic. Success! Can't wait for more!

[septemberoses]

It's fairly long at this point, I was looking for some general response (nobody ran away!) I'll post it when I reach a natural stopping point. This fic makes me feel like a creeper... poor Eric.

[berthablue]

Creeper = win.

And I do love Eric being taken advantage of... in pretty much any way :)

[septemberoses]

Mm, we'll be dishing it out to Godric as well. He's actually in the part that squicks me the most.

[laorion]

Me likey
more peeeez?? :)

[septemberoses]

There will be more. I have to stick up my Foursome porno first, and maybe one other fic.