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dw-flagler · 1 year ago

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@yugonostalgia2019 it's not, like, bad.

Not sure it gets amy fully. It's got some aspects of her portrayal that I think work very well and are very accurate, like internally considering herself a Criminal for Running Away and thus being surprised that she's not doing nothing but crime 24/7. However, something about her portrayal strikes me as not quite getting her. I don't think there's anything I could actually pin down as Incorrect right now, but I have a feeling about it.

Alec I'm not sure of--I'm not confident enough in my alec analysis to say with certainty--it's not striking me as Understanding the dude, but it's not like. It's not Cut Strings levels of bad. Alec seems far too competent and normal to me. Like, he's acting like he's a normal guy.

The main complaint I have is that if you were to look at the premise, I have no idea why alec wouldn't just hit the bricks and head for milwaukee or something. his pre-canon ass would absolutely not stick around in brockton bay if he knew that 3 (count 'em, 3) of his siblings were there to bring him back to heartbreaker.

I'm not gonna call it a bad wormfic, but I wouldn't call it good, either.

I'm kind of getting the vibe of a YA novel thing, where like, Amy is the protagonist, the naive girl coming out of her comfort zone, and alec is the hyper competent heartstopping but rough tempered criminal guy that's clearly slotted to be the love interest. Like. she's leia, and he's han solo. You can see why that would be Not A Fit for amy and alec worm.

I'd say I'm not far enough in to the 107k words this fic contains to give any sort of definitive conclusion, but I'm not a fan so far. Maybe it will surprise me, though. I've been surprised before. I didn't like Luminous at first, but I came around to it later on.

Oh, and the title is Heartshapers.

reading a new worm fanfic. jury's still out on whether it's accurate or not, but i must say, making amy and alec have to sit together in the same room for an extended period of time is a great idea. i can only imagine the levels of Horrors

#Again this is on the presumption that it really is an alec amy shipfic #you can see the skeleton of a will they wont they romance plot starting to form #and unless it stops that right the fuck now i'm not going to be liking it #because not only is amy like gay and thus canonically not attracted to alec or any men whatsoever #and i would normally say that changing her sexuality would be acceptable in a fanfic #but that combined with the harrison ford romance vibes i'm getting is painting a pretty nasty picture wrt lesbian erasure #(which like. I'm just straight up going to avoid talking about that any more.)#but also they are just the two least compatible humans on earth. i'd see more textual evidence for alec/rachel than alec/amy #and that shit doesn't exist #you'll note in my original post that I wanted to see a fic starring those two #*because* (precanon) amy absolutely cannot make alec vasil exist as a human within her worldview #it's a great avenue for amy character development. forced to admit that he's like. a person. with interiority #and alec is not the kind of person that would do anything other than hinder that character development #but like. AT BEST they tolerate eachother.#honestly their romantic incompatibility (regardless of amy's being gay)#is probably half of the reason i'm getting those harrison ford romance vibes to begin with

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