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crack_van2004-11-07 01:11 pm
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Portrait of a Man, Three Feet Down by Lunasky (NC-17)
Fandom: ALIAS
Pairing: Vaughn/Sark
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lunasky
Author Website: Perchance to Dream
Why this must be read:
This short fic was written for the GenderBender challenge at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
clandestine_ops. The goal of the challenge was to have the characters act in a sterotypically "gendered" way while remaining in character and Luna took that ball and ran with it.
You know that feeling you get when you're watching a movie and you just know things aren't going to turn out for the hero when that sense of impending doom sneaks up and sits down beside you on the couch? Well right from the start of Luna's story I had that feeling. She sets the mood in a classic noirish way with lines like this:
"It feels wrong that I still look normal. I could be just a regular guy, off to the gym after a hard day’s work. I certainly don’t look like a man who recently killed his wife –"
Indeed, this fic is filmic and Hitchcockian in its tone--all the traditional elements are there; an everyman with a past, the twisted psychological underpinnings of reality, secret meetings in dark places.
This twist here is that Vaughn becomes the cool blonde in peril by cross-dressing. And never, not once does it descend into parody. Instead Vaughn's physical transformation points to his inner conflict and turmoil. Luna picks up neatly on Vaughn's inability to reconcile how changed he is by the end of Season Three and by extending the metaphor just a bit, crafts this story.
Luna makes you care for Vaughn, you know he is acting in a self destructive way yet you are helpless to not want to read just a bit more and find out how far he'll go. I like the deft way she weaves his interior monologue into the action of the story and even as he transforms himself, there is a core innocence, a sense of baffled hurt that I think is so key to Vaughn's character.
Dark, dreamlike, creepy and deliciously erotic.
I also think this story is worthy of merit because it is a Dark fic. Too often there is an overabundance of empty shippy fluff in Alias fic, any story that pushes the envelope and brings more darkness to the Alias fandom can only be, in my opinion, a good thing.
Portrait of a Man, Three Feet Down
Pairing: Vaughn/Sark
Author on LJ:
lunaskyAuthor Website: Perchance to Dream
Why this must be read:
This short fic was written for the GenderBender challenge at
clandestine_ops. The goal of the challenge was to have the characters act in a sterotypically "gendered" way while remaining in character and Luna took that ball and ran with it. You know that feeling you get when you're watching a movie and you just know things aren't going to turn out for the hero when that sense of impending doom sneaks up and sits down beside you on the couch? Well right from the start of Luna's story I had that feeling. She sets the mood in a classic noirish way with lines like this:
"It feels wrong that I still look normal. I could be just a regular guy, off to the gym after a hard day’s work. I certainly don’t look like a man who recently killed his wife –"
Indeed, this fic is filmic and Hitchcockian in its tone--all the traditional elements are there; an everyman with a past, the twisted psychological underpinnings of reality, secret meetings in dark places.
This twist here is that Vaughn becomes the cool blonde in peril by cross-dressing. And never, not once does it descend into parody. Instead Vaughn's physical transformation points to his inner conflict and turmoil. Luna picks up neatly on Vaughn's inability to reconcile how changed he is by the end of Season Three and by extending the metaphor just a bit, crafts this story.
Luna makes you care for Vaughn, you know he is acting in a self destructive way yet you are helpless to not want to read just a bit more and find out how far he'll go. I like the deft way she weaves his interior monologue into the action of the story and even as he transforms himself, there is a core innocence, a sense of baffled hurt that I think is so key to Vaughn's character.
Dark, dreamlike, creepy and deliciously erotic.
I also think this story is worthy of merit because it is a Dark fic. Too often there is an overabundance of empty shippy fluff in Alias fic, any story that pushes the envelope and brings more darkness to the Alias fandom can only be, in my opinion, a good thing.
Portrait of a Man, Three Feet Down