Moar ficcage (it's like buses around here, I swear)

[thisgirl_is]

Title: Under Glass
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Mostly gen
Rating: NC-17 and not in the sexy way
Warnings: * Character death (minor character), euthanasia, forced pregnancy, pregnancy termination, torture of the unethical medical experiment variety, madness, deliberate inconsistencies, epithets as artistic choice *
Story notes: Modern AU, horror,

Comments

[kathkin]

:D This is really great! I really do like this kind of AU (the people-with-magic-being-experimented-on kind, I mean). :3

[thisgirl_is]

Thanks so much! It turns out that torturing fictional characters is a great form of stress relief. :oD

[thisgirl_is]

Oh wow, that's really flattering! Welcome back - there's been some great stuff lately, I hope you enjoy it. :o)

I wasn't planning to, as it felt like a good place to leave it, but my laptop is ded of virus and I'm feeling quite stressed about it, so more Merlin torture might be in order. >_>

[altri_uccelli]

I'm going to try this when I'm a little less fragile, bb. (How is it that between me and Scarlet we can't get you fangirling The Captive Prince? [new chapter posted today; I had to post between blowing my nose indelicately and sobbing])

[thisgirl_is]

I think you should probably not try this at all, my dearest. I was really not very nice to Merlin, and I was downright horrible to poor Freya. You're probably better off not knowing, although I appreciate the thought!

Erm, neither of you have tried? I've not heard of it before your post about it a few days ago. Although, given the number of Beltane fics I still have to go through and comment on, and the creaking and groaning state of my 'To Read' shelf, I am a bit reluctant to embark on any epics.

[altri_uccelli]

lol, well, that's reassuring. I sometimes have the perception that I go on and on about Captive Prince to the exasperation of the majority of my flist who don't follow it. I'm more fannish about it at the moment than I am about anything else. It perfectly feeds my enjoyment of analyzing and blathering on about fics; I've never read an author, fanfic or pro, with as much control over her plot and the pacing of her reveals, and as much of a gift for keeping one balanced on the delicate fulcrum of 'does it mean this, or that?'

I hope you do read it some time when your 'to read' shelf has diminished, but if you're like me that will be approximately never.

(and thanks for the warning; I may not, then. Horror and pain are not something I can process easily).

[brunettepet]

This is terrific. I enjoyed the details you put into this awful world, with Uther caging and experimenting on magic users. Merlin's disorientation and memory loss makes me think he has been in that lab for years.

This was heartbreaking: He wishes he could remember exactly where home was. His Mum would be so disappointed. She’d made him memorise their address when he was wee so that he could always get home if he ever got lost. He’s very lost now. He thinks he might be too lost to ever get home again.

The rescue was exciting and made more entertaining by Merlin's disorientation and belief that he was imagining the whole thing, until the idea of Freya breaks through. Her plight was horrifying. Merlin did the right thing letting her go.

Now they're free, but what kind of world have they been freed into where this kind of thing can happen? It's fascinating.

[thisgirl_is]

I can totally see a modern Uther justifying this to himself as "For science!", and therefore far more worthy than just revenge. "It's for their own good" probably features, as well. Because he's going to cure them, you see.

Merlin has definitely been in there for years. I think about seven or eight, and effectively in solitary confinement for one, if not two, of them.

I'm so chuffed that I was able to break your heart and excite you. That sounds mean when I type it, but it's a writerly air-punch. It was probably quite an ambitious thing to attempt, and I'm rather pleased it seems to have worked out.

...what kind of world have they been freed into where this kind of thing can happen? This one, more or less. People go missing all the time. If the existence of magic is not widely recognised, how would an investigator connect a few otherwise unrelated disappearances?

[scarletscarlet]

Ooh, yes, that *was* good. And grim, which worked so well. Nice one with the dark stuff, you!

[thisgirl_is]

Why, thank you! So pleased you liked it. :o)