Communion

[septemberoses]

Title: Communion
Author: septemberoses
Fandom: True Blood
Pairing: Godric/(Eric)
Word count: 3200
Rating: PGish (except for the bit with Eric) for blasphemy, threat, impure thoughts, Mary Sue (Godric's next door neighbor in this earlier fic.)
Summary: Godric meets a nice Christian boy for a chat about faith, chess, natural fabrics and repentance

Comments

[dadadidadada]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. *hugss* Godric was so sweet to help the kid out! Just makes me love him more ;)

I really love how you've combined slashy Godric with tender Godric. It's unlike any Godric fic I've ever read. Usually I just want to read about him and/or hopefully Eric having wild, vocal, unbridled sex with every male human/vampire in a 5 mile radius, but this was a lovelyy change from that.

I j'adore the flashbacks of him and Eric having kinky time in a church. I will never look at a church the same way again. (not that I'm complaining, because I certainly am not.)

Chapter 2 coming soon? :)

[septemberoses]

I need to write that kinkytimes in church fic.... combining slashy and tender Godric is so much more interesting, yes? I think on the one hand he'd be like this very, very old man -- very picky about his clothes or whatever, and on the other hand, all this wisdom and complexity. You know how much I love my porn but a mix of both is a pleasure to write.

I am theoretically writing the Eric/Godric/Carsten threesome if I ever finish it.

[korvasieni]

It's kind of weird, to read this while listening to old Finnish Christmas hymn. (Not that I usually listen to those during August, it just happened to be on this collection of Finnish rock I am listening to. Don't ask me why, our rockers are weird in that way.) But yeah, set the mood nicely, I think? I also really really really want to discuss religion with Godric, it would be immensely fascinating. I'm not religious myself even though I enjoy religious music (the harmonies, oh god the harmonies. I might have a music kink?) and especially music played in church because of the acoustics but. Yes. I love discussing religions, especially Christianity as it's the one I know the best and it would just be so interesting to talk with Godric. So interesting

[korvasieni]

Okay. So. I have this humble wish. There's this song I have always thought would make a great base for a fic. And I can't write to save my life. So, I'm going to translate the lyrics here and also put up a link for the original lyrics and I would be eternally grateful and write millions of praise songs for you if you even listened to the song. Because it's beautiful even if no fic ever comes out of it. The Finnish lyrics and my translation (I'm not a translator, please remember that, plus I just don't know my way around words, I hope you can still get the basic essence

[septemberoses]

This was beautiful, I love the lyrics. I have questions.

1) Sorry, I've forgotten from our discussion -- Finnish is really different from Swedish/Norwegian, right? Like, Carsten wouldn't understand it? Or would he? (Godric would of course.)

2) The artist ... how would Carsten the modern Danish kid think of her? I have no idea who she is. (Part of this is probably determined by Question 1, can he even understand her.)

[korvasieni]

1)Yes it is, there's no way Carsten could understand it.

2) It depends.. I have lots of friends who love her, but jazz (or jazzy pop) isn't that popular among kids atm. But. I think Carsten could be the kind of boy who would find that kind of music quite good in some moments. She is a Finnish jazz singer (the best at the moment, if you ask me) and she is Finnish Swedish and bilingual and she has just released an album in Swedish. And is the singer of this band, so I think Carsten could have heard of her and I don't know, liked her and heard some of her Finnish stuff and googled the lyrics or something? Because he wouldn't understand them otherwise. Or you can pretend the song is sung in English :D

[redlined_it]

Unnf. I loved this.

[septemberoses]

Tender!Godric and kinky church porn together is a winning combo.

[laorion]

ummm...can I sqee now or later? maybe both???

[septemberoses]

Squee away! I love tender!Godric too.

[bnharrison]

My God, this was so...strange, which doesn't sound like a compliment, except that you're writing about a 2000 year old vampire and the combination of mercy and detachment in his point of view is extraordinary and oddly perfect. I've been dying for Godric fic that doesn't blow, I'm so glad I found your journal.

[septemberoses]

Feel free to poke around in my journal, it sounds like you've already discovered there is a lot of Godric in here. And I've been writing his voice more in recent fics, which has been an interesting change from Eric's POV. In my mind, Godric is much more introspective and has this old-man perspective where the past and the present flow together while he's thinking. Thanks for commenting.

[bnharrison]

I've been reading steadily since last night. It's like Christmas.

As much as I enjoy your stories from Eric's point of view, there's something about your Godric pov that's more satisfying. I suspect it's because it takes a lot of painstaking effort to create a voice so precise and elusive and the final product is imbued with unusual complexity. You do capture the lofty remove of his advanced age but you manage to mingle it so convincingly with the immediacy of a vampire's appetites.

I wish I'd read the Carsten stories in order. I skipped straight to the kidnapping stories because, wow: my kinks. I'm going to reread it now so I can savor the impact in context.

Also, the Godric parts in "Ropes". The way you caught that complicated little snarl of criss-crossing threads between Godric and Eric = absolutely extraordinary. Eric crying and saying "I can hurt you"--I could barely breathe through it.

You do have an eye for the most charming detail.

[septemberoses]

As fic writers we all have our own, disparate viewpoints for the characters, that don't even necessarily match up with "canon." Eric to me is pretty straightforward, and he's fun to write because he's all about money, rage, and fucking (in a good way). Godric, as I said, is more complex in his thinking ... he's a bit daft and he's always thinking about things around him and remembering other things from the past. At the same time -- yes, he's completely deadly. He hasn't forgotten that in his old age. When I'm having fun with him, he's doing something completely peculiar, like baking a cake. Because he's ancient and it doesn't register to him that he's got to keep up vampire appearances. He's past that