A rather dark bunny

[drharper.livejournal.com]

There's several Allspark!Sam fics where he gets captured/tortured by Simmons/revamped S7. I suddenly heard this line in my head.

Sam: What am I doing? Well, Reggie, I'm trying to decide whether or not to kill you, everyone who was in Sector 7 and anyone else in the government that you reported to and/or let you run free with your little, black-ops, alien-tech-acquisition agenda. You know, I'm usually a pretty easy-going guy, but after the utter, fucking hell you put me through...that kinda leaves a mark on you.

Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I like it. Sometimes I think Sam is written too nice, what with all the crap he goes through in fics.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Remember, this is the kid who turned around and coldly laid down the law to Simmons on top of Hoover Dam. Kid's got a core of steel in him. Why do so few people let events in their fics shape that steel into a blade?

Not to mention, I love the image of Shia being badass and wanna see more of it. He could so pull off the cold "Should I kill you now or wait until after supper" manner.

[heslestor.livejournal.com]

Love this bunny. It does seem that Sam gets written as way too nice and naive of a guy a lot. Sure, he can be an adorkable character but put anyone through hell, and they're not exactly going to be all sunshine and roses after it. 'Bout time he fought back. Especially, if the ones he cares for are put through the same hell as he was. You know, do what you want with me, but leave my loved ones alone?

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I really would LOVE to see more people write Sam to the point where he is quite willing and eager (and able) to kill. :)

[delilahdraken]

I don't know why, but this bunny seems very fitting for Sam. I always thought there must have been some darker core in him. Not many can get through the things he has and stay as 'innocent' as he is often portrayed.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Seems like people wanna give him Peter Pan syndrome and never let him grow up. Or, worse, wussify him.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Or they are so scared of being OOC that they just never develop him in their fics.

[delilahdraken]

On the other hand, that Peter Pan syndrome sounds logical. That is, if one takes it in the same spin as Batman does. I always thought Pan was quite a bit blood-thirsty in the book, with his game with Hook.

Didn't someone once say that anything can be written and believed as long as it is written well?

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

Yeah, but I was using Peter Pan Syndrome more in the psychological sense: i.e. freezing a person in childhood. In the book...read a certain way, Peter can be really disturbing. :D

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

A bit "Lord of the Flies".

[delilahdraken]

I was thinking about that as well.

That's why I always think of Bats when it's mentioned. He's too frozen in a child's wish for making something right that cannot be changed.

On the other hand, can this even be used to describe the way Sam it written sometimes? I just cannot see him as young or a child. He's what... 18 in the movie? That makes the character inexperienced, but not young in my opinion.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

17, IIRC. Which makes people writing so chronicly innocent/naive/weak/pathologically helpless even more illogical.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I firmly believe the "everything can work if written well" school of thought.

[delilahdraken]

It was the creator of many fascination alternate universes, at least.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That it has.

I am so claiming this

[yuuzaiden.livejournal.com]

It has so many possibilities!
I'll see what I can do!!

Re: I am so claiming this

[drharper.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yeah. In my mind's eye, Simmons and various other MIB types are being restrained by living machinery and old Reggie has just finished with a blustering rant when Sam says this. ;)