[Whose-a-thon fic] Breaking Point

[clayangel]

Title: Breaking Point
Characters: Jeff, Ryan
Pairings: Ryan/Colin, Ryan/Greg, Jeff/Chip, Jeff/Greg, all implied
Rating: R for lots of cursing
Prompt: 170: “You can't have both of them.” “What makes you think I want either of them?”
Word Count: ~880

Comments

[clayangel]

Thank you so much! ^__^

I don't know if Jeff knows nothing about love here so much as he's just not gone through the same things as Ryan. Jeff is like Ryan 20 years ago in this story, when it was all about having fun and just screwing-before feelings got into the mix.

And technically, Colin wears glasses, too. ^_^ He just wears contacts in public or maybe he just doesn't wear his glasses in public.

It is interesting to me to see people choosing sides, though, because weirdly enough, it never entered my mind when writing this. Ryan is incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if he'd ever make a decision. I'm not sure that Colin or Greg are even aware of the struggle he's going through. I think, by this point, both would have given up on the idea of ever really getting to be with him because it's been so long. They gave up a long time ago...and they just don't realize that he hasn't yet-that he's still working through it.

Hah. And now my response is like half as long as the story, itself. :P

[rycolfan]

Oh, I love this. The whole conversation feels very real. I'm obviously on the other side of the fence, rooting for Colin, but I can imagine Ryan being stuck somewhere between the two and not wanting to give up on either. Very nicely done.

[clayangel]

Thank you so much. ^_^ And I'm glad that this has a realistic feel to it. And hell, just that it's enjoyable to read in general. I was thinking when writing this: what the hell am I doing writing Ryan and Jeff talking? I feel like it's a weird thing to write, and that I do it too often besides. (Of course, I've done it, like, once, which is apparently too often in my head. :P) But so yeah. It's nice to see people actually full on enjoying it as a story. ^__^

[sungreen70]

What strikes me most while reading this is how much I love the way you write Ryan and Jeff interactions. I always do, but in this piece what really grabs me is that Jeff seems to kind of model himself after Ryan, from taking Ryan's line to copying his attitude about relationships, even though he doesn't really get it (as Ryan points out). I love that, because I can sort of imagine this in real life. Jeff seems kind of in awe of Ryan, and his interactions with him seem so different from the way he interacts with Greg and Chip. And I do think they're similar in some ways. It's not that hard to imagine Jeff having "grown up" in a sense around Ryan (he was what, early 20s when he did his first Whose Line?) and seeing him as kind of a role model, for better or worse. Anyway, that's what I got from this fic, and it rings very true for me. Awesome writing!

[clayangel]

It's an obligation now, apparently. ^_^

[sungreen70]

Ooh! Can we get T-shirts that say Team Colin or Team Greg? And make up cute combinations of their names like Rylin and Gryan?

[deaconite]

Ryan's very interesting here, and it's kind of weird seeing him opening up a little with Jeff. I can imagine him talking like this to Greg, Colin or Drew, or Jeff with Chip or Greg, but not them together. (Greg's like the go-between guy ^_^ He kind of works with everyone.)

“Just back off Greg,” he said at last I love how he's basically saying "Keep the fuck away" here, and I like to think he'd have the same reaction if Jeff was flirting with Colin.

Chasing after Chip was far more fun anyway. I think this is interesting as well; I can imagine Jeff seeing Chip as more 'fun' as I can see Chip as being more of a challange to Jeff/more defensive of his sexuality, while Greg always seems to have this "Fuck it, why the hell not?" attitude in my mind. Now I'm rambling, but this is definitely a great take on the prompt!

I think the best solution is a massive orgy.

[natyu0815]

Oh wow. This was a great story! Ryan talking to someone he thinks is like him in the past and then talking to himself with his past-self just standing there... It made it all so credible and interesting that I was leaning close enough to the screen as to have my eyes square now. :P

I don't think I'd be able to make a choice here, guys :/ I've been there, and sometimes there just isn't any choice. It's like having two hearts. You love each one of them with a whole heart, and when asked to choose... You just can't.The trick is to accept each person individually and the relationship itself too, I'd say. You love wholeheartedly two people at once, and you can't choose. I can understand the dilemma Ry's in, and I feel for him.

And I guess it's just that Jeff's so young next to wise ol' Ryan, but I felt as if it all were a game to him.

More, please? :D