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You’ll Never Snikt in This Town Again, Part III, by Violet (NC-17)
Fandom: X-Men Movieverse
Pairing: Scott/ Logan
Author on LJ: Violet Glaze’s Journal
Author Website: Violet Glaze
Why this must be read:
I think Violet has written the most true to comics canon, and therefore the most disturbing, characterization of Logan that I’ve read in movieverse.
This Logan is indisputably a graduate of the Weapon X program. He is constantly boiling with anger. Like a whipped dog, he’s full of hatred and distrust for humanity. He is needlessly cruel and prone to irrational violence on small provocation. At heart he is desperately tired of his lifestyle, wishes for something sweeter, but his own bad self is his own worst enemy. This Logan is down and out, to the point where he’s willing to prostitute himself for beer money.
And we have a different Scott here, too. This Scott leads a double life, slinking off into the city when he can’t fight his physical attraction to men any more.
This Scott and this Logan meet one hot August night in the men's room of a Times Square porn theater, and they don’t meet cute. There is a violent confrontation between the two.
I think this is Wolverine as he is supposed to be. I think we don’t see more of him because what author could invite this character into her brain for a prolonged period of time? And what reader would tolerate him for the length of a novel? And how could he possibly star in a PG-13 movie? But this is fascinating characterization, and I recommend this story.
… the once-burgundy carpet now simmered in the August heat like roadkill stew in a crock pot … atomic particles of murder kicked up by every scuff his cowboy boots made on the trampled, forlorn carpet. And floating low, clinging to the stained walls and scuffed floors and decaying mahogany trim, threaded through every molecule of air like the marbling in a steak, was the low, humid, sweaty musk smell of men fucking. Something about that combination, that sex and death smell, got Logan juiced up.
You’ll Never Snikt in This Town Again, Part III
Pairing: Scott/ Logan
Author on LJ: Violet Glaze’s Journal
Author Website: Violet Glaze
Why this must be read:
I think Violet has written the most true to comics canon, and therefore the most disturbing, characterization of Logan that I’ve read in movieverse.
This Logan is indisputably a graduate of the Weapon X program. He is constantly boiling with anger. Like a whipped dog, he’s full of hatred and distrust for humanity. He is needlessly cruel and prone to irrational violence on small provocation. At heart he is desperately tired of his lifestyle, wishes for something sweeter, but his own bad self is his own worst enemy. This Logan is down and out, to the point where he’s willing to prostitute himself for beer money.
And we have a different Scott here, too. This Scott leads a double life, slinking off into the city when he can’t fight his physical attraction to men any more.
This Scott and this Logan meet one hot August night in the men's room of a Times Square porn theater, and they don’t meet cute. There is a violent confrontation between the two.
I think this is Wolverine as he is supposed to be. I think we don’t see more of him because what author could invite this character into her brain for a prolonged period of time? And what reader would tolerate him for the length of a novel? And how could he possibly star in a PG-13 movie? But this is fascinating characterization, and I recommend this story.
… the once-burgundy carpet now simmered in the August heat like roadkill stew in a crock pot … atomic particles of murder kicked up by every scuff his cowboy boots made on the trampled, forlorn carpet. And floating low, clinging to the stained walls and scuffed floors and decaying mahogany trim, threaded through every molecule of air like the marbling in a steak, was the low, humid, sweaty musk smell of men fucking. Something about that combination, that sex and death smell, got Logan juiced up.
You’ll Never Snikt in This Town Again, Part III
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Of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this piece. :D It does an admirable job at emphasizing the worst traits of Wolverine, and showing it in a visceral, immediate way. I read the first two parts of this earlier, but I missed this one. Thanks for the rec - I'm glad to have read it, even if this AU!Logan isn't the same guy I'm used to seeing.
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