This is very cool, and really got me thinking about the characters. I loved reading from Gunn's perspective! The structure of this is really neat as well, with the paragraph about the person changing and then those couple of sentences that get to the heart of things.
I love this line, lovely imagery and really speaks to Gunn's continuing feelings about his role in his sister's death: Ultimately, she’d been hard and brittle as frost. Before the end. Before he failed her.
With Fred I also love that kick-to-the gut line: And then. Then. The betrayal that still wakes him screaming at night. He can’t think too long on that. There will never be expiation.
This is a very cool insight, that has me reflecting on Wes now: If Wes had known when to trust, and accepted that others trusted him.
I think you've explored a key aspect of Gunn's character; taking responsibility for the people around him: Their deaths were only the final and most obvious manifestations of the ways he failed them. It makes me think of the episode right before they go to Pylea and he's wracked with guilt about his old crew member getting killed. And when he's in Pylea, he realizes he can't do what Wes does and take that responsibility of leading people who may die.
I like how all this builds to why Gunn is okay with who Andrew is and letting him be who he is. I admit that Gunn/Andrew is a difficult pairing to imagine, however I think you do an excellent job of setting up why they could work.
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Date: 2006-07-04 03:10 am (UTC)I love this line, lovely imagery and really speaks to Gunn's continuing feelings about his role in his sister's death:
Ultimately, she’d been hard and brittle as frost. Before the end. Before he failed her.
With Fred I also love that kick-to-the gut line:
And then. Then. The betrayal that still wakes him screaming at night. He can’t think too long on that. There will never be expiation.
This is a very cool insight, that has me reflecting on Wes now:
If Wes had known when to trust, and accepted that others trusted him.
I think you've explored a key aspect of Gunn's character; taking responsibility for the people around him:
Their deaths were only the final and most obvious manifestations of the ways he failed them.
It makes me think of the episode right before they go to Pylea and he's wracked with guilt about his old crew member getting killed. And when he's in Pylea, he realizes he can't do what Wes does and take that responsibility of leading people who may die.
I like how all this builds to why Gunn is okay with who Andrew is and letting him be who he is. I admit that Gunn/Andrew is a difficult pairing to imagine, however I think you do an excellent job of setting up why they could work.