Perks Of The Job: Aphrodite

[karanina]

Series: Perks Of The Job
Fandom: Angel
Character: Marcus Hamilton
Prompt: 051 Aphrodite
Word Count: 235
Rating: PG

A/N I: Dedicated to the fabulous

Comments

[curi_o]

Oh, shit.

I've rarely been so disgusted by Marcus.

And that's a good thing. I mean, the fact that I feel a strong emotion is a credit to your writing. Good job. I especially liked the bit about the Golath dimension. At first I was like, "What does his new girl have to do with a different dimension?" but then I figured out that he was delayed there, away from her.

I wonder who fed her while he was away? Does he have little kitty bowls or a personal assistant or what?

[karanina]

So I take it that means I wrote him in character? Thanks a lot for the huge compliment! If I've made you feel something then I think I must've got it right!

I was trying to portray him as having something of his own harem. Although I only wrote about one, rest assured there would be other girls at present, and many in the past. Cos he likes to collect all sorts of things, girls included.

At any rate, Aphrodite was not physically mistreated during that month long absence. Since he has more than one girl, Marcus does have staff under his employ to deal with the day to day needs of his harem (it's not like he really wants to). At the beginning of his "ownership" while he was still in the Human dimension, he undoubtedly visited her and taunted and scared her. No doubt she was under emotional stress during his absence, and scared witless every time her door opened. But all Marcus' people know that he wouldn't be a happy chappy if she escaped or was mistreated, so relatively speaking, she would've been fine while he was away.

[ladytalon1]

woooot, new MH fic! I love how you've woven his love for causing pain in amongst his almost childlike excitement for things... remember the "congratulations!" face he gives Eve when she whines about having fallen in love? That's the face I picture him wearing in the elevator. Great work, hon! *hugs*

[karanina]

Thank yous!!!

I just love that look of childish glee he gets on his face!

*hugs back*

[romanceguru]

*Shivers* Maybe she got loose? That was really good, perfectly in character!

[karanina]

Thank you! I only saw 2 or 3 of the MH episodes, so a lot of this is just extrapolation of what I read, combined with what I remembered!

And no... she hasn't gotten loose... yet...

[guinny_hamilton]

Oh my. Sweetie, this is brilliant!

I, too, love how it captures his evilness but still shows him excited...

But what I'm really in awe of is the backstory you created (which I read in the comments) and the way I could read it between the lines. It's only a little over 200 words but there's just SO MUCH there.

You got my hopes up with your 'yet' in the last comment you replied to :-) I didn't want to beg for more because it's pretty dark and not everybody is comfortable with that. But...

Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooore!

[karanina]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Coming from you, that means a lot. You're pretty much the First Lady of Marcus-Fic around here!

I thought a lot about a sequel, and as mentioned on msn, I may be doing one.

I'm glad that the whole "in between the lines" stuff came through, cos I put a lot of thought into that, although truth be told, this story flowed pretty damn easily!

And the words sounded nice together, so that was fun too!

[karanina]

Thanks! Evil Marcus gives the best kind of chills!

And Guinny's not persistant, she's just... passionate about promoting Marcus fic! Yeah, that's it!