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[reefofhappiness]

Title: Semi-automatic
Word Count: 1,642
Summary: Based on this prompt: Robin is forced to fellate a gun.
a/n: That prompt thread also includes a wonderful art fill by ailea! Check her out. She's cool. Warnings: Gunplay, noncon fellatio, allusions to trauma.

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Comments

[micehell]

Disturbing as all get out, but then just that interesting as well. ;) Especially getting to see what Robin defines as 'this far no further' and how he realizes that it's skewed from where the others would define it, but that he starts to see they might have a point when he doesn't come out of the whole thing as okay as he'd thought. Good job all around. :)

[reefofhappiness]

Thank you. I didn't initially set out to explore Robin's possibly unhealthy mentality as a child soldier, and struggled at first with attempting to write it from a more erotic standpoint. Once I started to really take the place of Robin's fear in the whole experience and what it implied into account things started to fall into place a little better. And by better I obviously mean 'blatantly creepier'.

[miki_moo]

This was really wrong, and really, really good! Thank you for sharing!

[reefofhappiness]

Thank you for reading!

[animegoil]

Mmm, good piece. Realistic, disturbing, but I liked the exploration of Robin being in-control even in as crazy a situation as this and gauging it according to fairly extreme boundaries. You handled the balance between Robin being in control and freaking out about the gun really well, and the team's reactions were pretty good - not over the top freaking out, but definitely concerned. Maybe not confused or suspicious enough, though? The ending paragraph was excellent, by the way.

[reefofhappiness]

Thank you! I truly appreciate the compliments on the balance of Robin's reaction, as well as the ending paragraph. Especially because I had to stare at and mess with that paragraph an ungodly number of times to fix it up. Trust me, the first draft of the closing was severely lacking.

And while I don't entirely agree with your assessment of the team's reaction, I can respect your opinion -- I'm all for applicability and freedom to interpret and criticize. My personal justification ranges from factors such as them staying aware of the fact that they were on the job and shouldn't overact, to not wanting to make Robin uncomfortable with their reactions, to wishful thinking/denial that Robin really was okay because he's the veteran...the list goes on to why I feel the reactions showed were in character and at an appropriate level. But! Again, your opinion is heard and considered and a different take from what I thought and I can totally see where you're coming from.

WHY IS THIS REPLY SO LONG? Anyway, seriously, this was an awesome

[animegoil]

(just in case - I was saying that you did well by not writing them over-the-top freaked out, but you still managed to make them sound concerned, so that was good ^_^)

And thanks for not being offended that I had a different opinion at all - honestly, I only ever bother trying to critique when I think the writer/piece are worth it because other people won't be able to take it and evaluate it for whatever it might be worth and grow from it. Definitely agree on all your reasons and that's definitely the interesting part of fic, seeing other people's interpretations of the same events and characters ♥