Comments | shadowbyrd: Never made a fool of you [fic]

shadowbyrd

Never made a fool of you [fic]

Jul 16, 2010 20:35

Title: Never made a fool of you
Author: shadowbyrd
Rating: R
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Toshiko, Jack/John
Prompt: 32. Feelings for otp_100
Word Count: 321
Summary: Jack struggles to understand love in the 21st century.

( Jack has met a lot of people who talk about love and hate as if there’s a Great Wall of China separating them. He has yet to maker up his mind whether those people are naïve or if it’s just hangover of the last hundred years )

otp_100, torchwood fic, 22, jack/tosh, fic, torchwood

Comments 9

saintmaybe1121 July 17 2010, 00:53:46 UTC

Chills down my spine. And I loved the last line, and how pissed I was at Jack for thinking Toshiko boringly familiar. He is an unrepentant bastard sometimes.

shadowbyrd July 17 2010, 18:23:15 UTC

I find Jack curious in this respect; often he just seems thooughtless, but sometimes he is sorry that he has to do these things or ask them of others, but pushes anyway.

I'm glad this worked for you!

alice_owo July 17 2010, 01:13:34 UTC

Wow. This was really good. (: Tosh/Jack is an interesting ship that I never really thought of but it works well...

shadowbyrd July 17 2010, 18:24:20 UTC

Thank you. I'm glad you liked this. You should have a poke around, there's some interesting stories around :)

karaokegal July 19 2010, 18:16:23 UTC

EXCELLENT! This is the real!Jack Harkness and I love how you capture him in all his manipulative, bastardy glory, and the fact that he has no compunctions about screwing Tosh without loving her back makes me love him all the more.

This definitely gets a real!Jack commendation in the next pimp post.

shadowbyrd July 26 2010, 21:00:18 UTC

I don't know about real!Jack, but I do enjoy writing this dark, morally bleak side of Jack. There's this selective remorse/guilt thing going on; sometimes there's bigger stuff going on, and he doesn't care about what's going on with the individuals, sometimes the fact he's doing this to them as opposed to some faceless stranger makes it worse.

Yeah...Anyway, I'm that you enjoyed it.

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shadowbyrd July 26 2010, 17:06:36 UTC

I find it interesting they appear to have such a good relationship in the show despite this. I really wish they'd explored it more...

beta_goddess August 1 2010, 16:11:05 UTC

Really, really enjoyed this, partly because nobody's a good guy. We're all flawed and sometimes our flaws hurt other people and sometimes they don't. Great character piece.

shadowbyrd August 1 2010, 22:51:01 UTC

Thank you. And the fact you took this from it (because nobody's a good guy) has pretty much made my night :)

I'm so glad it worked for you.