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Fly Away Home

Jun 28, 2009 20:17

Title: Fly Away Home
Author: Madam Backslash
Fandom: Dorsai
Rating: NC-17ish
Cast: OCs
Warning: Could be seen as dub-con. Includes mindfuckery.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters and am not making money out of them
Notes: As ever, all hail the wonderful, magical estoile, beta reader extraordinaire!

( Even the Exotic worlds, those bastions of peace and enlightenment, had their drug dens, gambling establishments and houses of ill repute. )

Comments 6

estoile June 28 2009, 08:39:28 UTC

That is lovely, sis. Yay for your first foray into OCs -- and such fine ones they are, too ;-)

madambackslash June 28 2009, 08:47:16 UTC

Thanks, sis. It was a lot of fun to write.

rubynye June 29 2009, 04:56:58 UTC

Dorsai! ZOMG! This was fascinating, and hot. I got a little confused around the time that Conrad popped up, but then (I think) I figured out what was going on.

madambackslash June 29 2009, 05:34:03 UTC

Nobody's writing Dorsai any more, but I've always been fascinated by the pilots (and frustrated by the fact that we hear NOTHING about them...).

So, tell me what you think happened...

rubynye June 29 2009, 13:28:05 UTC

Conrad was doing something to Robert's brain while they had sex to make him remember/relive having sex with Erik?

madambackslash June 29 2009, 14:53:45 UTC

Mmm, close, but no banana.

Pilots have a tendency towards the crazy, and the neural por surgery sometimes makes that a bit worse. Robert can work, but it's hard on his mental state (not as hard as not working would be, though). So when he's had a hard job, he gets self-destructive.

They have an agreement to use fantasy play to get his self-destructive impulses out in a way that means he doesn't actually come to any harm (and gets the really intense sensations he needs in order to work out whatever the fuck it is he's working out). Conrad chose the name Erik because he knew Robert would associate it with happiness and safety.

So no, no physical rewiring of the brain going on (the electrical stuff is Robert's mind feeling the bond betwen them), but a lot of psychological woo-woo.

(I'll get better at making this stuff clearer, I promise.)