Comments | rokhal: SPN/Thor fic: The Tomato in the Mirror 2/4

rokhal

SPN/Thor fic: The Tomato in the Mirror 2/4

May 18, 2012 09:23

Title: The Tomato in the Mirror
Chapter: 2/4
Characters: Sam Winchester, Thor Odinsson, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, several Avengers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and guest-starring Dr. Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme of Earth
Pairing: Gen
Rating: T
Length: 6k (of 18k total)
Warnings: Two uses of the F word, several uses of the S word, mild hand-to-hand ( Read more... )

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Comments 15

black_sluggard May 19 2012, 22:47:49 UTC

I love how subtly you worked in the parallels between Loki and Sam in this.

rokhal May 20 2012, 21:11:31 UTC

Thanks! Put them in a corner, and they both lie like morally-ambiguous rugs made of weasels. Weasel-rugs.

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rokhal May 21 2012, 00:26:19 UTC

Glad you liked it!

dying_gaul May 22 2012, 15:18:56 UTC

Oh my goodness, I absolutely adore the whole section from Strange's point of view! It's great how in the first part you work it down from the astral plane to returning phone calls. I think you've gotten the Sorcerer Supreme's character pretty spot on. You got Samuel L. Jackson/Fury's character as well. All of his dialogue is really good. Thor's may be a bit over the top but I don't really mind. It's fun to read. Is that how he speaks in the comics? It tickles me to think about little boys reading through that sort of syntax. I'm also intrigued by Sam's craziness issues and the S.H.E.I.L.D. agents reactions to his episodes.

rokhal May 22 2012, 15:38:57 UTC

In the comics, Thor's diction isn't nearly that bad. This was pretty much just artistic licentiousness.

I'm glad my Dr. Strange passed muster! For his character, I read him once in a Spiderman team-up from the eighties and once as a Deus Ex Machina in another Spiderman comic, which is not a great deal to base a POV character on, but I knew he started his career as a neurosurgeon. So I took that unfathomable arrogance, added on how he dresses, took some background from Marvel Encyclopedia, and went from there.

Fury is being a smartass because he's not about to kiss up to a pompous jerk like Dr. Strange when it's not actually going to win S.H.I.E.L.D. any favors.

Sam's crazy is covered in a perfunctory way. It's surprisingly hard to work into a story, especially when, on the show, Sam hides it so well.

Thanks so much for your awesome reviews! Any writer is so lucky when they get a reader like you. I hope you enjoy the rest of it.