The Substance of Things Unseen - Veronica Mars Fanfic

[firefly_ca]

Title: The Substance of Things Unseen
Author: firefly_ca
Characters: Veronica, Cassidy, Dick
Word Count: 1400-ish
Rating: PG-13, with allusions to R-rated topics
Summary: School is back in session after winter break, and Veronica is transformed since the last time Cassidy saw her at the Pomroy party.
Spoilers: I wanted to do something different with this fic

Comments

[slayerkitty]

I DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS. God, Cassidy was so screwed up and you capture that perfectly here. (tbh, I hated that they retconned the rape and made it him. Because that means she had sex with both Cassidy and Duncan in one night and I just... *sigh*) Also, I love your Veronica (I was never able to get her quite right).

:)

[firefly_ca]

Oh man, fucking show for retconning the rape episode. I also found that really disappointing, and I hated that they sensationalized it. What made the original episode so powerful was how it drove home how easy it is for rape to happen in that kind of environment. Apathy for another person and ignorance about the importance of explicit consent can result in legitimately good people unknowingly doing heinous things. It's such a brilliant statement, right? But noooo, by all means show, pull the Cassidy thing out of your ass

[slayerkitty]

A big THIS to your whole rant, omg. I wonder how much the newtwork had to with it, honestly. Because I know they were interfering a lot in season 2 (it's why Meg didn't die in the crash and she and her miracle baby lived on - for like five more episodes).

I had NO IDEA it was Cassidy (even when Veronica found the baseball picture in the finale) because I'm a little slow, LOL! But it really just broke me because I loved Cassidy (and I shipped him and Mac like nobody's business). The rooftop scene was mindblowing though.

Gah, it was so long ago, LOL. I really think you've got her down here. I wished I'd been able to write her better (I think I got close, but I never captured her just right).

[gameboycolor]

MY NAME IS CASSIDY.

Oh. OH my. Can we all spend the summer in this underappreciated fandom?

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[firefly_ca]

Oh my God. I can't even think about that line without tearing up a little. Kyle Gallner, you magnificent bastard.

And if the VM fandom had a comeback this summer it would be the highlight of my year I think. Possibly of the next five years. Because 1) I have no RL and am very easily amused and 2) I miss the stuff this fandom used to produce soooo much. Did you ever see the school newspaper they used to put out online every month? The Neptune Navigator? I wonder whatever happened to that...

ANYhow, thanks so much for commenting and I'm glad you liked it! :)

[samajama224]

oh GOD *rolls around in Cassidy's head*
Cassidy Cassablancas is easily one of my favorite "villains" of all time. He wasn't perfect and he had a bit of a bad boy thing because of Dick but he was still that nice little kid, so he drew you in. Then you learn so much about his backstory and ugh I just love him and his whole storyline.
Thank you for sharing this fic! It's wonderful!

[firefly_ca]

Oh man, me too. He and Lilly are my favourite VM characters (do I know how to pick 'em or what?). It's wonderful when you find a villain who can be absolutely despicable but you still feel sympathetic towards them. I mean, this kid was a murdering, blackmailing, raping sociopath, and I still looked at him and just wanted to take him home and give him soup and let him cry on my shoulder. I think it's because he might have acted by himself, but other people made him into the kind of person who would act that way in the first place. Everything he did was about some twisted sort of self-preservation or proving he wasn't a victim anymore. In the end he's still a terrible person, but the kind of terrible person you want to invent time travel for so you can go back and get them the help they needed in the first place.

Aaaand now I'm just foisting all my Cassidy Feelings onto you. Whoops haha. Thanks for commenting and I'm glad you liked it!

[samajama224]

YES! I know exactly how you feel. And it's totally fine, lol. I love commenting on fics and I love getting responses :)
Now I'm just going to roll around in my VMars feels for, um, ever haha

[jaq_of_spades]

So looking forward to seeing more of this. One of the main reasons I found the retcon a bit dubious is that it just seemed too dumb for Cassidy ... if the kid managed to conceal the buscrash, managed to conceal his own abuse, managed to conceal his personality ... he was too clever to do something so publicly and predictably. (Not to mention the fact I suspected it was retconned to push Veronica back into the pit of victimhood, and take away from the 'Duncan is a rapist' line of thought prior to the possibility of a reunion. Someone else needed to be a 'real' rapist, because sex with drugged girls apparently isn't rape enough.)

Enough politics. Loved the fic. Will love it more :D

[firefly_ca]

Have you ever done that thing where you answer someone's comment four times and after you've written a novel each time, and you keep deleting all of it to try to answer more concisely? Yeah. That's what I'm doing right now haha

[vicarious27]

Oh VM. How I wish the network hadn't pushed you off the plank like they did. I wish I could have been involved in this fandom. Sadly I was starting college and had no idea about fandom at this point (beyond specific spoiler websites and fanfiction).
Anywho, ugh blow to the heart. I want to wrap Cassidy up in a blanket and feed him a gallon of ice cream and also smack him upside the head. Like I said, I was so outside of fandom/in depth thought I didn't even consider the network changing stuff like this. I can't stand Duncan, he creeps me out. Dick, oh Dick. You're such a fantastic failbot asshole for some reason I can't help but side eye you with a fond smile.
What does this have to do with your fic? idk. More reaction to your comments then anything else. Yay masterlist :)
Side note: I NEED A VERONICA MARS MOVIE STAT.

[firefly_ca]

Whoops! Sorry for the long wait before I answered this (I thought I responded ages ago but apparently not