Loyalty || Third Star || PG-13 || Davy/James (Unrequited)

[doodle_writes]

Title: Loyalty
Author: _doodle
Film: Third Star
Pairing: Davy/James (Unrequited)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Highlight for warnings, contains film spoilers: Terminal illness, suicide.
Word Count: 1,300
Beta: None, sorry!
Disclaimer: This is in no way affiliated with the truly wonderful film Third Star. No profit is being made (except possibly by kleenex on

Comments

[_doodle]

*Hugs*

You have NO idea how good it was to find out I wasn't alone in this. I honestly thought I was going to go completely loopy.

I'm glad it's come across as convincing. I just wish this could have been a fix it, rather than this.

[irisbleufic]

(Tea and biscuits didn't help me much, but I found that writing about it did.)

Yet a fourth take on all of this, and so bittersweet. As far as I know, we're the only four so far who've written (well, that would be you, me, morelindo, and tearelateddream). This film may be far too limited in release and far too difficult emotionally to ever have a fandom as such, but I treasure rarities :)

[_doodle]

(I'm not entirely sure writing about it made me feel better at all, seeing as it was less fixing them than making things worse for Davy. It only helped in the sense that this wasn't rattling around in my brain distracting me from everything I did anymore. As for the tea, I'm such a British cliche somedays it's a miracle I function in the real world. Tea can take the edge off everything.)

Thank you, as I said above. It just would not leave me alone and I really, honestly thought I was alone in seeing Davy's love for James, and all week it's been driving me mad. Having this and it all swimming around in my head with nowhere for it to go. It's such a relief to know I'm not the only one who sat there and saw it and felt it and had to do something about it!

Yes, I doubt it will ever have a huge fandom but I think I like it this way.

[irisbleufic]

Something was really bothering me throughout the entire film, but it wasn't till I sat down and had a conversation with tearelateddream that it all hit me over the head, and hard. And then one thing led to another. I'm just wondering when I'll get the chance to see it again; probably not till it's on DVD.

Small fandoms are wonderful. Actually, what I mean when I say small fandom is more like tiny fandom. I seem to collect them, and I adore them.

[_doodle]

I saw it as I was watching and my god I don't even have words to describe how heartbreaking it was, though I'm sure you can imagine. Seeing Davy's love unfold and ultimately be rejected without ever really being voiced and yet he carried on, loving and caring for James. I always knew the film was going to turn me into a mess, but that really upped the ante for me. Perhaps it's because I've had unrequited love on my mind for a while now that it struck a chord so hard and fast with me.

I'd love to see it again, but it's just so expensive for me (missing out on overtime, the cost of the train, taxi's, tubes and tickets runs in at between £60-£70) which is so much for just one film in my financial situation. I just hope that there's not a really long wait until the DVD release.

[alizarin_nyc]

That is exactly how I viewed it, their relationship. Exactly. I had such a hard time reading this, as seeing the film nearly killed me (more on that in email), but I knew you would do it all justice and you did. Davy is the character I felt the most for -- as did the friend I saw this with -- and his pain was perhaps the most keenly felt in the end, although there was no shortage of pain to go around.

Wish I *could* have a good cathartic cry; and this fic solidifies the perfect, agonizing lump in the chest that this whole film created. You're amazing.

[_doodle]

God, yes. Watching the film was just brutal and heartbreaking when seeing this, wasn't it? I had a packet of tissues with me, but the cinema was so silent at the end (it was only 40-something seater screen and Adam Robertson was in the audience too) that I couldn't even open the packet. In the end T sat next to me gave me some of the loo roll she had in her pocket I was such a state. I just. Still don't even have words and as soon as I came out this was in my head. I just knew this was how James convinced them to let him go, how he convinced Davy to let him go.

I'm really glad you thought I did it justice. It was more word vomit onto the screen than anything else, just getting out what was playing in the back of my mind and threatening to break my heart all over again.

&hearts you.

[woodencoyote]

This is the first time I've come across someone else who saw the film (I was one of the only people in a very small theater). I was sobbing brokenly by the end of it and I couldn't explain why (besides the obvious). It's good to find someone else to share the film with.

[_doodle]

I saw the film on opening night in London, in a tiny screen (42 seats), with Adam (Bill) in attendance - he was there watching the film with friends, rather than as an opening night-event thing. I have never been to a film screening where the entire audience was silent and remained seated until the end of the credits (and then we applauded, because how could we not with Adam there?). It was a good thing though, as I was a complete mess as well, mostly because I saw this as I watched the film and it made it that much more intense and heartbreaking. My heart still wrenches, thinking about it even now.