Fic: Sugar Free, for naderegen

[narie]

Title: Sugar Free
Author: abluegirl
Recipient: naderegen
Characters: Emma, Sugar
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: General season 3
Word count: 4300
Beta: elva_barr
Note: Written the glee_gen_fest exchange for naderegen.
Summary: It wasn’t like she had many friends of her own outside of work. And so, when Rachel started coming by her office less frequently, Emma couldn’t help but be disappointed when

Comments

[narie]

Your Emma voice is delightful throughout, and I was so amused by Sugar's entitlement and the way she's blatantly got her father wrapped around her finger and shamelessly (and I get the feeling, sometimes unawarely) manipulates her way into getting what she wants. The final scene was adorable - it would totally do Emma some good to sing Gaga loudly now and then. I know you struggled a bit to write this, but the end product was totally worth it.

Also, god bless you for bringing in the Nessie Club. <3 <3 <3

[abluegirl]

I love Emma and I love Sugar so when I finally hit on the idea to write them together I was so pleased! Emma definitely needs some help stepping outside her comfort zone and Sugar could definitely do that. I'm so glad you liked this! :D

[abluegirl]

<3 Emma is by far one of my favorite characters to write, and I find her fascinating. I do see her character as being asexual and one day I'd love to write a story that really explored that. Thank you so much for your feedback!!!! I haven't read any of the other fic for this exchange yet, but I will definitely read yours also. <3

[elva_barr]

Yay! This idea has just grown on me so much, and you make me actually like Sugar a lot. "I sing anyway" gets me every time I read this, it's a wonderful line and it's so wonderful for her character.

Tiny, inconsequential grammar things I forgot because I was clearly too blown away by the story to do my job: there's a space missing in Broadway dreams ( “When and one missing here but -”Emma paused, it must have escaped and jumped to the wrong place, oh no! I think is appropriate. is also missing its ending punctuation and “You’re right Will,” needs a comma!

[abluegirl]

<3 Thank you so much for your help with this! Sugar is kind of a ridiculous character, but I love her for it. And thanks for the additional edits! I can't edit this post, so I'm going to send a new version of the doc to narie to update when she has time. :)

[wthis_pattys]

I love like how Sugar randomly launched the conversation into the direction of asexuality. I imagine Sugargoes out to the internet to find stuff that she could possibly be, and randomly ran into that. I always think that the reason Emma doesn't know about this is because she never went and researched herself, and nobody around her is gonna suggest it.
I totally agree with the sentiment that Emma is indeed asexual- for me it's also part because in canon it's... they really take the long road with her not wanting sex, and it's such a huge part of her character...
and how...
you know, despite that Sugar is just WHIRLWIND WOOOOH, it's still kind of a tender moment for Emma when she looks it up.
just, yes.

yes.

But the visual of Emma just letting go and singing from the top of her lungs? *__* flawless.
I totally imagine that's how Sugar's inner mind works, her I sing anyway (and it's very ... it works very well with how Glee works, because singing is all these kids do to cope with their lives

[abluegirl]

I imagine Sugargoes out to the internet to find stuff that she could possibly beLOL, that's funny because I totally do that like, all the time. I think I related to Sugar a little too much for my own good, TBH. :D

[wthis_pattys]

Well, I don't exactly have an opinion on that until the show ends, because... Well, look at her OCD, it was always played for laughs until ...it wasn't.
Same with Kurt, lol gay-jokes, until he has to transfer schools because it really isn't funny at all.
So I figure they might go there later. And if they never do... I can bitch about it then. XD

oh man, if you do, please let me know. I'm kind of a sucker for any detective-ish story so *_* yessssss.

[lls_mutant]

I think this is my favorite of your stories that I've read yet. I love your Emma and your Sugar voices, and the friendship between them is adorable without being trite or sentimental. Sugar's father was fantastic- his love and spoiling came through so clearly, and you can tell you've dealt with parents that spoil before. :) Emma's inner monologue was wonderful, and the bit with them singing "Marry the Night" was awesome. I really, really loved this piece.

[abluegirl]

That is very sweet of you to say, thank you so much. ♥ I really love writing Emma, and I haven't written Sugar before, but it turns out I like to write her also. She's such a caricature - so ridiculous and completely lacking self awareness, but I like that about her. I'm so glad this worked for you!