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Supernatural Fic: The Word

Feb 19, 2010 15:42

I started writing a few days ago, and, well, this happened.

Title: The Word
Author: xaara
Rating: R (violence & language), gen
Timeline: sometime mid-season 3 through 4.18
Characters: Chuck, Sera, OCs
Summary: All he can do is write.
A/N: I think some explanation of characters is in order. First, although I don't remember hearing a name for her, that ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

catnthecradle February 20 2010, 09:05:48 UTC

Poor Chuck, I never really thought how lonely and painful his life must be. *sends hugs*

Now I've got another 'poor boy' to worry and angst over. Broken Dean, Blood-addicted Sam, crippled Bobby, falling Castiel and now lonely Chuck. Let's hope Becky can help him with that little problem.

xaara February 21 2010, 05:07:39 UTC

Despite how much I hate Becky (and believe me, it's quite a bit, for a whole bunch of complex meta reasons that I don't really need to expound on right now), I do want Chuck the Prophet to be happy.

Unfortunately, I'm rather bad at letting characters be happy. But I'm okay with leaving room for hope.

Thanks for reading. :)

quellefromage February 21 2010, 01:16:58 UTC

Crikey. THAT was intense. You took a couple of characters I really hadn't cared about and made them real. You just keep on putting them out there, kiddo. I'll be reading.

xaara February 21 2010, 05:09:33 UTC

I am SO SICK of the *nudge nudge wink wink* sort of approach the show's taken to fandom. Okay, cool, we're fans. We like the show. It doesn't mean we want to be in it.

I may have taken that irritation out on poor Chuck a little, because I desperately want him to be a useful, reasonable, real person. I'm glad it worked for you.

innie_darling February 22 2010, 03:23:38 UTC

I loved this story.

xaara February 22 2010, 06:00:19 UTC

Thank you. It was so much fun to write.

pyrebi March 19 2010, 07:24:19 UTC

What the fuckity fucking fuck, how does this only have three comments? It was amazing. Your characters were real and gorgeous and deliciously filled out. I adored quirky Marilynne, and fashionable-intolerance Sera, and sometimes-genius Phil.

Chuck was just delightful, too. The show has him as this, I dunno, shrinking violet caricature. But we only see him in the context of Sam and Dean, who by virtue of their extraordinary lives must dwarf Chuck, make him small and nervous and brittle, like a small creature in a cage who knows it cannot escape but that large thing on the other side would have no problem breaking the bars to get in. But here you show us Chuck as he sees himself, and he's angry and sullen but he doesn't ever even think of himself in that context, just as somebody who's sliding on through, chasing liquor with liquor and shit days with shit days and bad dreams with more liquor until nothing's left but hollowness and some dick of an angel in the corner and this fucked-up life he can't even escape ( ... )

xaara March 20 2010, 14:09:50 UTC

I love run-on sentences! Bring 'em on!

Seriously, though, it was delightful to read this comment. I love the idea of Chuck, but he's such a--well, you said it, a caricature--on the show that it's hard to really identify with him. I wanted him to be a person, and I wanted him to be more than a convenient prop for Becky. It's really gratifying as well that you liked the other characters, since OCs are always a little dicey in fic.

Thankyou so much for reading and leaving feedback--I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)