“men and melons are hard to know”

[talon]

"Are you sure you want to do this?" she asks him as they lie together in bed, face to face, fingers interlaced

Comments

[halfshellvenus]

This is one of the areas of criminal profiling and/or psychology that I've always thought might come back to haunt you. When you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss stares back at you.

[talon]

Yeah - it speaks to the appeal of Dexter and the like. To truly understand the enemy, you must become the enemy in a lot of ways.

[i_17bingo]

Hubris is the word that comes to mind here. This doesn't seem the kind of thing anyone could control. How many times have they done this, I wonder.

And yet, he still retains enough of Vash to save that orphan and Amber (and whomever else would be in danger if Joseph Gordon got out again. Dlso.maybe not Hubris as much as tragedy.

[talon]

Would it be worthwhile, you think, if every time they tried it, it worked, but they had to sacrifice someone for it?

[i_17bingo]

Ooh! Good question!

[swirlsofblue]

Absolutely love this concept and your exploration of it, brilliant the notion of becoming the person, because what are we if not our memories and thought processes. Where does one self end and another begin, intriguing that he doesn't do what Joseph would and gives up Joseph's location despite being Joseph. And gives himself up.

[talon]

Thanks! I was really pretty proud of my piece this week. Felt like one of my better pieces this season :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

becoming a serial killer like vash did seems like a very bad idea, for this very reason! the slow merging of the two personalities and the way vash starts to be joseph is really well done but it makes my skin crawl. just... yeeg. (i did really like that there's enough of vash left to know that he's dangerous, so he gets himself locked up.)

[talon]

Just enough left, I think. It'd be a creepier, and darker story if there was nothing left, which I think is a possibility.

[lrig_rorrim]

I love this exploration of identity and self. Wonderful, wonderful work!

[talon]

♥