I'm sure this isn't how S4 will play out because Torchwood isn't that show, and that's awesome (I likely wouldn't watch it if it was), but yeah this is one scenario that could happen, and I'm happy to hear that it is a scenario that would work for you.
As I said in a few other replies to people here, this certainly plays with the idea that Gwen has always been the only member of Team Torchwood that could have ever walked away from Torchwood, and really, walked away from Jack. None of the others could have ever told him no, and that makes them interesting as characters (and I write enough Ianto fic that has elements of that), but it also makes her interesting as a character. She has a different core strength and in this story, in this interpretation in her narrative, she does comment on not seeing that core strength in Ianto, for example, and I'd agree. One interpretation of Ianto is certainly that his core strength has been replaced by belief in Jack, and he functions like that. That said, that is the Ianto from this story, really, and in other stories, in other interpretations, I might say something completely different (that's the beauty of fanfic for me, that you can have different layers in different stories, and they don't have to negate one another, they are just different interpretations drawn from the same canon gestures, actions and words).
The windows of Owen's flat, that was such a lucky sudden thought, actually, since I do play with the Torchwood-as-a-prison idea quite a bit, and the windows only then struck me as quite intriguing as I wrote down his name in that line. It's, I think, in part one of my favorite things about the fic, Torchwood as Gwen sees it in this story, the layers that are her layers of interpretation (LOL, I'm a fan of my own story, it's a bit pathetic).
I have had feedback (in the original writer in a drawer feedback) that criticized that Rhys left, and that said that Rhys wouldn't ever do that. The thing is though, everyone would when they are with someone who keeps on going on about a life they had, another person they loved, even ten years down the road, who has an obsession that is only somewhat comprehensible. I think there's an end to patience there, and possibly rightfully so, an end to willingness to just accept that obsession. Sure it's sad, but to say that there is no way Rhys would leave, that there is no way they would split up, 10, 20 years down the road, well, that's not how lives work.
Mica and David-- I played with that element (also for the parallel of the 456 that Gwen makes obvious in there somewhere) and because the idea that Jack would take David for a lover, that David would happily do it, is in itself worth a story because I think it's possible for all reasons of guilt, memory, responsibility, wanting to live up to ideals etc. It's a fairly small line in the story, but I love how it sets Jack's character in it, actually, and explains the Jack of that moment without ever saying much more.
Anyway, I can never write short replies to comments, I like talking fic too much, but thanks so much for your long comment, appreciate it greatly.
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Date: 2009-11-09 11:20 am (UTC)As I said in a few other replies to people here, this certainly plays with the idea that Gwen has always been the only member of Team Torchwood that could have ever walked away from Torchwood, and really, walked away from Jack. None of the others could have ever told him no, and that makes them interesting as characters (and I write enough Ianto fic that has elements of that), but it also makes her interesting as a character. She has a different core strength and in this story, in this interpretation in her narrative, she does comment on not seeing that core strength in Ianto, for example, and I'd agree. One interpretation of Ianto is certainly that his core strength has been replaced by belief in Jack, and he functions like that. That said, that is the Ianto from this story, really, and in other stories, in other interpretations, I might say something completely different (that's the beauty of fanfic for me, that you can have different layers in different stories, and they don't have to negate one another, they are just different interpretations drawn from the same canon gestures, actions and words).
The windows of Owen's flat, that was such a lucky sudden thought, actually, since I do play with the Torchwood-as-a-prison idea quite a bit, and the windows only then struck me as quite intriguing as I wrote down his name in that line. It's, I think, in part one of my favorite things about the fic, Torchwood as Gwen sees it in this story, the layers that are her layers of interpretation (LOL, I'm a fan of my own story, it's a bit pathetic).
I have had feedback (in the original writer in a drawer feedback) that criticized that Rhys left, and that said that Rhys wouldn't ever do that. The thing is though, everyone would when they are with someone who keeps on going on about a life they had, another person they loved, even ten years down the road, who has an obsession that is only somewhat comprehensible. I think there's an end to patience there, and possibly rightfully so, an end to willingness to just accept that obsession. Sure it's sad, but to say that there is no way Rhys would leave, that there is no way they would split up, 10, 20 years down the road, well, that's not how lives work.
Mica and David-- I played with that element (also for the parallel of the 456 that Gwen makes obvious in there somewhere) and because the idea that Jack would take David for a lover, that David would happily do it, is in itself worth a story because I think it's possible for all reasons of guilt, memory, responsibility, wanting to live up to ideals etc. It's a fairly small line in the story, but I love how it sets Jack's character in it, actually, and explains the Jack of that moment without ever saying much more.
Anyway, I can never write short replies to comments, I like talking fic too much, but thanks so much for your long comment, appreciate it greatly.