Fic meme!

[ratherastory]

Seen on de_nugis' and road_rhythm's LJs.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I will give you 1-3 sentences from or about it.

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I actually have a whole Fusion story that's going to include that planned. Would you be willing to wait for it rather than get a ficlet?

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

What kind of dumbass question is that?

HELL YES WOMAN WHY ARE YOU NOT WRITING IT?!

Also... my little Dean!girl heart demands that it to kind of be a focus rather than shunted to the side because I may or may not be a bit bitter about the attention Sam's Hell got in canon versus Dean's Hell. I think they were equally horrendous and the worst thing that could've happened to each of them (as in Sam's Hell wouldn't be as bad for Dean if he went through it and vice versa). They're just different and tailor-made. It doesn't mean one was worse than the other.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It's not your Dean!girl that demands it. Hell, I don't like how they're dealing with this either. I've touched on it more than a few times in Fusion, but I wanted to devote a longer instalment to it in order to do it justice.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

I maintain stepping off the rack and being forced to torture others was the absolute worst thing anyone or anything could've demanded of Dean. Dean's entire life and identity is built up around helping helping people that having to actively TORTURE souls is the stuff of Dean's nightmares. Dean can take anything thrown at him because he has no self-worth but to have to inflict that kind of harm and damage? Yeah. And Sam's gig in the Cage was the worst thing that could've happened to Sam. I haven't figured out the psychological components of why yet because Sam's headspace is not as natural to me as Dean's. *shrugs* But yeah. Show dropped the ball majorly with Dean and Dean's tour of Hell and they're dropping it again with Sam.

And those few times you dropped it in FUSION are my favorite bits and that's why I prompted Perry-love and Sam-petting because there's no way Dean's "over it" despite intents and appearances.

*smishes you*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Sam's worst nightmare is, I think, similar to Dean's in many ways, with subtle nuances. The main difference in their hells is that Dean was being tortured with a specific goal in mind: to break him and turn him into a torturer. That happens to 99% of humans in hell anyway, but they paid him special attention because of the prophecy, hence why they broke him faster than most.

In Sam's case, there was no need to break him in that particular fashion. He was just Lucifer's plaything, and the sheer pointlessness of it all is what makes it so horrifying. rokhal wrote a beautiful story which illustrates it perfectly: The Parable of the Rats and the Oubliette. The idea is that Sam was entirely at the mercy of Lucifer's whims, whether he was feeling kind or cruel or both, and all of it was torture.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. This is intriguing and something I can totally buy. In some ways being a plaything is worse. But in others, being tortured with a specific goal is worse. That's why I don't think it's fair to compare them. It's not a quantitive measurement - it's qualitative. And even then, it's only with each brother and their personalities and headspaces in mind.

Thanks for the rec!

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Um.... How long would I have to wait for said fic. Not that I wouldn't wait or am complaining... ;D

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Um, I don't know? I write them as the fancy strikes me. I have about four story ideas that want writing, and I have no idea of the order in which they'll come to me properly.

The short answer? As soon as possible.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

HEE! It's all good - That's how I'm working on my 'Verse too. Only I have like nine story ideas. I'd wait forever for a Dean-centric FUSION 'Verse Hell flashback.