FIC: Strangers, LoM, Gen

[vermin_disciple]

Title: Strangers
Fandom Life on Mars
Characters: Nelson, Neil, Joni Newton, Ruth Tyler, Vic Tyler, Eve Olawi, Harry Woolf, Glen Fletcher, Lesley Roy, DCI Frank Morgan, and Dr. Frank Morgan. But really, it's all about Sam.
Rating: PG-13. Allusions to canon non-con (S1E4)
Word Count: 1,200
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Notes: I've had these sitting around

Comments

[templeremus]

This is beautiful. Parts of it are creepy, parts are almost unbearably sad. All of it is perfectly in character.
So many wonderful nuances here, but I especially loved Joni's drabble, because quite apart from the descriptive power of it- 'His eyelids flicker in shadow', gorgeous-, I love that you can make me feel both outraged for Sam, and sympathetic towards Joni, all at once.
Great work.

[vermin_disciple]

Thank you for a lovely comment! <3 The Joni one was a late edition - originally I was going to stick to characters who had some connection to Sam in 2006. I'm glad I changed my mind. :)

[sunnyrea]

The Eve one is my favorite!

And very nice to see views of Sam from the outside and from outside the team!

[vermin_disciple]

Thank you! The Eve one was originally a double drabble which I cut in half, so I was a bit worried about how it sounded now. I'm glad you like it! It was one of the first ones I wrote, so I have a particular fondness for it as well.

[samueljames]

These are really good, nice to see Sam from so many different perspectives. Neil an Joni's ones were particularly evocative.

[vermin_disciple]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

[saintvic]

Oh this is fascinating, all those different perspectives on Sam and insights about him as well. Love the way they all fit together to give us pieces of who Sam is.

[vermin_disciple]

Thank you! :D I love examining Sam from different POVs, because he must look very different to the other characters than how he looks to the audience. Very strange, in some cases.

[lone_gunfreak]

I love this. There isn't a lot of outside-POV fic about Sam (I suppose because the show is so much from his perspective), but it makes for a really interesting view of him.

[vermin_disciple]

Thank you! I *love* writing Sam from other perspectives. We know where he's coming from, but he must look so odd to the other characters, sometimes. It's fun to emphasize that. Glad you enjoyed it!

[lone_gunfreak]

I kept thinking about how he must come off to other people all through the show ... the scene where he meets his aunt Heather in particular, I remember thinking "gah, can't you tell how nuts you seem right now?"

[vermin_disciple]

Oh man, that scene is really cringe-inducing. There are times when Sam hits my embarrassment squick so hard that it's rather difficult to watch, and that is one of them.