fic: Goldfish Bowl (Glass Houses remix) (X-Men movieverse, Bobby Drake/Rogue, PG)

[puff_dannyocean]

Title: Goldfish Bowl (Glass Houses remix)
Author: penknife
Summary: It's hard being normal in the goldfish bowl.
Fandom: X-Men movieverse
Pairing: Bobby Drake/Rogue
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: These characters belong to Marvel Comics and Fox Studios, not to me.
Original story: One Day at a Time by wizefics
Notes: Thanks to sionnain for beta reading.

Comments

[etrangere]

Lovely fic and lovely characterization.

[penknife]

Thank you!

[ficwize]

*squeeeeees*

YOU GAVE ME ICEMAN FIC!!

Oh, I love this! I LOVE this and have a hard time calming down enough to tel you why!!!

Primarily, you wrote Bobby Drake perfectly! And the interplay with the original fic is just really damn cool. I like this version so much more than the original!Okay - coherent review

[penknife]

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the story. (And, no, none of them are having normal lives, really, whether or not they want to be.)

[penknife]

Thank you! :-)

[escritoireazul]

There is some amazing characterization in this. Bobby in particular is spot on, but John is perfect, and what we get of Rogue is lovely.

The trick of having any privacy with telepathic teachers, Bobby's learned over the years, is to make them think they know what's going on with you at all times, so that they won't try to pry your head open to find out.

I love this bit in particular, such a sensible way to deal with them.

She has trouble handling the cards in her gloves, and Bobby finds himself hoping she'll take them off to deal. He wants to see her fingertips and the pale skin where her wrists disappear into the sleeves of her sweater. He thinks there's something screwed up about that -- he probably ought to be thinking about her breasts -- but he can't help being disappointed when she finds a way to slide each card off the deck with her gloved fingers.

This was amazing. It reminded me so much of the eroticism of Fingersmith and was absolutely perfect. I love his obsession with the bits of her skin, it's such a true way to feel

[hermionesviolin]

I feel redundant but yeah, those quoted bits are what particularly stuck out to me as well. The eroticism of any skin, not just the traditionally eroticized fleshy bits, is what has really stuck with me after reading this fic yesterday.

[penknife]

Thank you! I'm glad that worked for you.

[penknife]

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[demonqueen666]

This was really well-done. I particulary liked the way he become sort of obsessed with her skin, wanting to see any of it bare, even something like her wrist or part of her neck.

You have a real gift for character.

[penknife]

Thank you!