Comments | shane_mayhem: Fic: "Ynys Echni" [Torchwood, Jack/Jack: PG]

shane_mayhem

Fic: "Ynys Echni" [Torchwood, Jack/Jack: PG]

Jul 27, 2009 16:15

Title: Ynys Echni
Author: Shane Mayhem
Rating: PG (there may be a swear word)
Pairing(s): hints at Jack/Jack, Jack/Ianto
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for "Adrift" and "Children of Earth." Unbeta'ed...sorry.
Summary: Jack visits Flat Holm one last time. (Written for at_the_ritz monthly challenge: Children of Earth.)

( He could pry him open, he thinks, and lose himself in someone else's pain, someone else's trouble and optimism. )

jack/jack, fanfic, torchwood

Comments 19

lilithbint July 28 2009, 00:11:06 UTC

Oh this was wonderful,
bleak and heartfelt and so very Jack.

shane_mayhem July 28 2009, 16:57:17 UTC

Thank you...I'm really glad you liked it. :)

neifile7 July 28 2009, 01:22:07 UTC

Beautifully sustained tone and mood here, and a wonderful riff on memory retained and destroyed. Jack is really salting the earth here, isn't he? I love your bringing your favorite pairing into the post-CoE universe; it adds an extra dimension to Jack's perennial state of loss.

shane_mayhem July 28 2009, 16:59:13 UTC

Thank you! I was sort of hesitant to try anything post-CoE, but I figured hiding it in my little corner of fandom would be okay. XD

This was all inspired ages ago by "Ash Wednesday," which fits so perfectly with Jack, and by me sitting and staring out at the ocean for a really, really long time. ;D

51stcenturyfox July 28 2009, 01:44:02 UTC

He tips his head; he can smell the faint traces of grass and rock sea lavender, the silence of a place where humanity has remembered Nature.

The whole planet feels small and cramped around him; it feels old and dying. Even the smell of fresh sea air and the blooming grasses and flowers of the Flat Holm Project can't convince him that there's any reason worth staying anymore. Humanity has changed too little, too late.

These ties to nature make me think of human nature after CoE, and how MESSED UP things were.

I really love this... it's so incredibly sad and beautiful, and Jack is just perfect.

shane_mayhem July 28 2009, 17:00:50 UTC

Thank you!
*hugs*

I wanted to sock in a lot more of my oh-so-subtle environmentalist take on things, but I couldn't figure out how to do so with anything resembling the sort of spare-ness I was going for. ;D

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shane_mayhem July 28 2009, 17:02:42 UTC

Thank you!
I'm really excited about your interpretations of it, since I felt, while writing it, that it was sort of weaving itself out of symbols without any effort on my part.

I was going to even call it "Absolution," but I felt that was even a little heavy-handed. So I just named it after the place. The way battles are named.

wihluta July 28 2009, 12:18:30 UTC

Wow, this is just... wow. I love this fic. I love the sadness and the feeling of giving up that's woven through it. It fits perfectly with CoE. And I love the language you use.

It should be inspirational.
Jack is tired of adapting. He's so tired of surviving everything.
This broke my heart. Yes, poor Jack - always surviving everything having to keep living. It must be so hard.

I'll pimp this on my journal if you don't mind. More people should read this!

shane_mayhem July 28 2009, 17:04:16 UTC

I'm really glad you love it!
Poor Jack is so destroyed right now, but since he has to keep living, he will...just like humanity. SUCKS!

Thanks for the pimping, too. I'm not sure if I think it's that good, but naturally, I'm flattered! :">