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[shellfish_dimes]

i have longed to move away
sherlock (bbc): jim moriarty/sebastian moran. // (3,992) // R
trigger warnings: mild PTSD
title comes from dylan thomas' poem, i have longed to move away.
posted to dapperkillers.
NOW ALSO ON AO3

Comments

[messageredacted]

Oh this was so good. I love how cruel Jim is, and how Seb is so utterly loyal, despite (or maybe because of?) everything. So good. And now I have to read it over again.

[shellfish_dimes]

Thank you so much! I always fret that stuff is too patchy and doesn't work properly, but I'm glad this worked for you! I'm still trying to figure out why exactly it is that Seb's so doggedly loyal to Jim, that's part of the reason why I wrote this.

YOU CAN READ IT AGAIN BECAUSE NOW I FIXED ALL THE TYPOS.

Pardon my embarrassing verbosity

[messageredacted]

This is entirely my own interpretation, so it could be nothing like you pictured, but it seems to me that Seb is able to do things under Jim's employ that remind him of his glorious time in the army. He was great in the army, and he didn't leave by his own choice, and with Jim he's able to be great again (and when I say great I mean that he's is a perfectionist when it comes to his job, and he loves the feeling of a job done perfectly

I revel in verbosity.

[shellfish_dimes]

I think you are mostly spot on! In my view, or in my headcanon if you like, Seb is very serious when it comes to his work, and I'd also say that he is somewhat Machiavellian in the sense that he doesn't care if the things he does aren't done by the book, as long as they are done. He has his internal set of rules that he sometimes prefers to that of his supervisors, or to his higher-ranking officers, which was what happened in the army. But at the same time, he likes to be ordered around because it gives him a sense of purpose and order

[lillyankh]

fffffffffffffff

Ok, I absolutely adore this. You have the exact same view of Jim that I do and I LOVE IT. It's so dark and twisted and he's so genuinely terrifying and I am not really coherent because I am still blown away.

Fantastic, truly.

[lillyankh]

apparently I was also blown away enough to fail at formatting. OH WELL, HAVE SOME MORE LOVE

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[shellfish_dimes]

Oh my God you're the person who wrote the amazing Sherlock/Slenderman crossover and you- you liked my fic? THANK YOU <333333 I am so humbled, you're an amazing writer.

[lillyankh]

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Now I'm getting all blushy because YOU like MY fic. Aren't we a silly pair?

Glad you liked mine, and I hope you yourself continue to write such amazing things as this. ♥

[shotgunbette]

Got here from Tumblr. This is lovely fic, I'm so glad you wrote it. My favorite pairing in the fandom, and we've never seen more of Seb than the business end of a sniper's laser. You fleshed him out beautifully, and made his relationship with Jim believable.

[shellfish_dimes]

Yay Tumblr friends, hello! Thank you very much, it's my favourite pairing too. (If you couldn't tell by my gleaming tinhat.) I'm very glad you found it believable - I was worried it would be OOC, but I just wanted to write out a bit of a character study and a study of their relationship, I guess. And then this happened.

[megaloo13]

Ah, I love it! There is far too little of this pairing being written. I adore how you write the pair of them, with such lovely underlying tension. Terrific job!

(And that choking scene? UNNNNNF... So wrong it's right!)

[shellfish_dimes]

I agree, there can never be enough good Seb/Jim fic. (If you have recs, throw them at me, I've not read any in a while.) I'm pleased I managed to get the underlying tension across. Thanks so much!

(I... might have a thing for choking. AHEM.)

[napoldeinlove]

You have my seal of approval.

[shellfish_dimes]

Delicious.