Ashes Fall Like Snow

[neshel]

Title: Ashes Fall Like Snow
Characters/Paring: Sylar/Mohinder
Rating: R
Spoilers: none
Warnings: Character death.
Word Count: 662
Summary: The weapon was built just for him, designed to kill him permanently.

Notes: Linkin Park's "New Divide" came on the radio and all I could see was Sylar dying in the rain. Thus, this ficlet was born. The

Comments

[eternal_moonie]

i loved this story! Well done!

[neshel]

Thank you!

[levitatethis]

This is gorgeous. The brokenness, the devastation, the fatalistic inevitability is so beautifully rendered here. Wonderful descriptive details breathe life into Sylar's final moments and I like how this feels just like something his brain would note -- all the details, small and big, that work together to create this death tableau

[neshel]

OMG LT! Your comments never cease to blow me away and this is no exception.

Wonderful descriptive details breathe life into Sylar's final moments
I was trying really hard to be more descriptive with this fic. I tend to ignore the details of the external world a lot, focusing on inner states and dialog. I meant to include all five sense but I forgot smell. =( Oh well, my own sense of smell is such crap that it tends to slip my mind.

Mohinder exists as this almost otherworldly entity here
That wasn't so much a conscious choice as just how Sylar ended up seeing him. I'm glad you thought it worked.

Sylar knows he may be projecting what he wants Mohinder to be feeling, but maybe it's real.
I was toying with the idea of real dialog, but it just didn't feel right. I decided that the fuzziness of it all, the uncertainty, worked better, and I'm thrilled to see that you agree. =D

Thank you! *hugs*

[seraphtrevs]

the fatalistic inevitability

Ahaha, I used that exact phrase when I reviewed your latest fic a few hours ago. ~Great minds!~

[ladywilde80]

Angst... you own it.

That was breathtaking darling, but I think I already told you as much...*hugs*

[neshel]

*hugs*

[anansie_s]

Oh, this is great. Slow, powerful, bittersweet almost.

Late reply, sorry!

[neshel]

Thank you so much!

Awww...

[zagethe]

You know you just have to give a big cookie to Zac Quinto for making such a reprehensible character into someone that you just can't help but sympathize with on some level and want to be redeemed. Aww, Sylar, so sad.

Late reply, sorry!

[neshel]

It's definitely the Quinto magic. I don't know how he does it.

Thanks for commenting!