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"Addictions" by thinkatory (Mature)
Fandom: Musical Theater / Rent
Pairing: Mark/Roger, Mark/Maureen, Roger/April, Roger/OFCs
Length: <2K words
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thinkatory
Author Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Mark/Roger doesn't technically exist in Rent canon, and it lacks much of the subtext-rapidly-becoming-text of, say, Magneto and Professor X. Yet Mark/Roger is probably the dominant pairing in the fandom. And in spite of the fact that both characters spend the entire show pining after women (Roger/Mimi is really the main plot), it works. In "Addictions,"thinkatorypaints a rich picture of the layered relationship between our boho boys. Vaguely dark and sex-ridden without being explicit, this fic builds a plausible bridge between canon and fanon. It's frank and raw, and the bits of filmmaking jargon go a long way.
Mark and Roger are opposites. Mark finds this comedic at first, as though Fate has shoved them together like the Odd Couple. Mark watches things, and Roger does things. Mark has Maureen, Roger has sex.
Mark has to find the humor in things, or he might just go certifiably insane.
Mark doesn't drink without Collins there, Roger does heroin every day. Ha, ha.
Cut, print. A long day of nothing. Mark is down and tired and so Roger is up, in more ways than one. April has been gone for some time, but the girls, who come in and out so quickly that Mark wonders if they were a fantasy of his own, seem to satiate him.
Mark leans on the frame of the door and looks in at Roger, who is still naked and half-asleep. "Can you try not to be so loud next time?"
"Then don't listen," Roger says.
"I can't not listen when you're banging her against the wall."
Addictions
Pairing: Mark/Roger, Mark/Maureen, Roger/April, Roger/OFCs
Length: <2K words
Author on LJ:
thinkatoryAuthor Website: At AO3
Why this must be read: Mark/Roger doesn't technically exist in Rent canon, and it lacks much of the subtext-rapidly-becoming-text of, say, Magneto and Professor X. Yet Mark/Roger is probably the dominant pairing in the fandom. And in spite of the fact that both characters spend the entire show pining after women (Roger/Mimi is really the main plot), it works. In "Addictions,"
thinkatorypaints a rich picture of the layered relationship between our boho boys. Vaguely dark and sex-ridden without being explicit, this fic builds a plausible bridge between canon and fanon. It's frank and raw, and the bits of filmmaking jargon go a long way.Mark and Roger are opposites. Mark finds this comedic at first, as though Fate has shoved them together like the Odd Couple. Mark watches things, and Roger does things. Mark has Maureen, Roger has sex.
Mark has to find the humor in things, or he might just go certifiably insane.
Mark doesn't drink without Collins there, Roger does heroin every day. Ha, ha.
Cut, print. A long day of nothing. Mark is down and tired and so Roger is up, in more ways than one. April has been gone for some time, but the girls, who come in and out so quickly that Mark wonders if they were a fantasy of his own, seem to satiate him.
Mark leans on the frame of the door and looks in at Roger, who is still naked and half-asleep. "Can you try not to be so loud next time?"
"Then don't listen," Roger says.
"I can't not listen when you're banging her against the wall."
Addictions