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]

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!