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[Report This]Date: 01/13/2020 8:59:35 PM Title: TWO
This is such a good story. I hope you'll come back and finish it. I want to know more about everything, and I absolutely love the way Xavier interprets Logan and Rogue's relationship.
[Report This]Date: 12/07/2011 3:20:17 PM Title: TWO
I had neglected these boards for some time out of constant disappointment with so much of the material. How fortunate for me to revisit your list of stories and find that you had posted a new one! I am so pleased to see you here again, and with another diamond-bright set of character studies and, as per your style, an oblique look at Logan and Rogue's relationship, such that it is! Some favorite moments:
"Logan nods without comment, and Xavier remembers that he has never really liked taciturn people. People suspicious of or inhibited by speech. Xavier has never known the luxury of being one of those who could trust the body and its gestures, more than words. More than thoughts. Everything Xavier has ever been able to hold onto, has never been something he could hold with his hands." Never felt that Xavier whas ever entirely trusting of or comfortable around Logan...
"The swiftness with which she looks away reminds Xavier of how twitchy she is, has always been. How when she had arrived Xavier had always considered Rogue the feral one, not Logan." As another admirer commented, in all the fanfic based on X1 I've read over the years, I don't think I've ever read anyone's take on Rogue's state of mind when she first came to the mansion...
"Xavier sees Logan lower his head, lean ever-so-lightly out into Kurt’s path. His nose twitching, his entire body still and taut as a hunter’s. Detecting. Inhaling.
Smelling, Xavier realizes. Smelling.
Then Kurt passes, and the moment does, too. Xavier looks at Logan. It isn’t quite jealousy, or anger on the man’s face. Just this serious, grave determination. This frank instinct, or need. Need to take what he can. Need to feel what he can. Where he can find it." One of the things about Logan that has always been at the heart of my fascination with the character is in the way he uses this part of his mutation - his enhanced senses and his inate abilities to "read" what he's sensing - to gather information about a situation or a person. I love how you use that in your descriptions of him. He's a lot more than the adamantium skeleton, the claws, and the berzerker rage - thank you for tapping into that about him.
Now, I see that it's been some time since you've updated. I will be checking back more often in hopes of seeing more of this new story. Welcome back and thank you, Acse!
Date: 08/05/2011 5:43:15 PM Title: TWO
woah deep and slightly dark. I can't wait for more. Wolverine seems more like the comic version of the character. It's good
[Report This]Date: 06/20/2011 11:17:06 AM Title: TWO
I love your insight into the characters/situations/words, how you can take it, twist it or straighten it and we all end up with a new perspective. I also love the interaction between the characters in this, the words, the hidden actions/reactions, the way things are interpreted and thought. Love the dialogue, the things that are said and more so the things thought and left unsaid - basically I love the sheer depth behind everything you write.
Am really at a loss as to why this doesn’t have more reviews because it deserves them.
As for fav line – I’m going to cheat slightly cause otherwise I would be copying and pasting so much…..so here’s my fav line….
”I'm trying to rectify the movie series' (and most action series') practice of fucking over characters of color.” And we’re all very very grateful!
If you have anything in print I want to read it and if you don’t – why the hell not!
Author's Response: Hi, litlen, thanks so much for this wonderfully detailed comment. I'm so happy you're enjoying the story and that the little unsaid things are speaking to you... feels like that's mostly what I like to think about, when it comes to the Rogue/Logan relationship! And I'm thrilled that someone else is side-eying the series' troubling race politics. And as for having things in print, haha--I do write in my professional life, but never fiction. Maybe this will get me into it?
[Report This]Date: 06/18/2011 1:16:58 PM Title: TWO
I like this story. It's a bit confusing at times but it's probably just my not paying enough attention xXx
Author's Response: Thank you for this kind comment! lol, I think it's a bit confusing to me, too, and I'm the one writing it. All the sudden flashbacks occasionally trip me up.
[Report This]Date: 06/18/2011 12:25:45 PM Title: TWO
I have to tell you, I did a little jig and an impromptu singsong that sent my freaked kids scurrying when I saw that you have updated!
Brilliant, as is par for the course when it comes to you, but I am forcing myself to choose just one line because I'll probably just gush on forever and embarress myself!:
Logan’s face is still tight, his nostrils slightly widened. He is breathing only through his nose now, and Xavier knows that he is now being run through Logan’s senses; that his body is being smelled, his pulse listened to; that Logan is falling back on his instincts, as always, to figure out what he should do, how safe the situation is, by detecting the slightest change in the room.
And poof, just like that, I see Logan and the Wolverine. Brilliant.
Well worth the wait, and then some. :)
Author's Response: Hi serafim! lol, sorry for your scurrying kids. Thank you for this lovely comment... I'm glad that line spoke to you. I do think about it; what it must be like for Logan to process the world that way, and what it must be like for other people to be processed that way by Logan. Also the difference between Logan's relationship to the body, and Xavier's relationship to the body.
Date: 06/18/2011 11:21:31 AM Title: TWO
So very many things I loved in this. Some I give reasons for, some I like just because.
"Everything Xavier has ever been able to hold onto, has never been something he could hold with his hands."
"Logan already looks like he doesn’t want to say a thousand things." Doesn't he really? Dead on with this one.
"I already know you—already vowing to protect a precocious young girl who’s crawled inside your heart, let me tell you how this not-love story ends, however much you think you’re already needed, it isn’t even half of what you’re going to end up needing—"
"The swiftness with which she looks away reminds Xavier of how twitchy she is, has always been. How when she had arrived Xavier had always considered Rogue the feral one, not Logan." Hmm, I can see this. Very plausible & a great new way of going back over those scenes with a different eye. That's one of the best things about fanfics - seeing the original work through someone else's eyes.
"older than everyone her age, exhausted by being both smart and old, trying desperately not to be so smart and old. That last part, at least, all three of them have in common." AHHH!! Even after all of these years of thinking about all things Rogan I did not make this connection. Consider my mind blown. Really.
I love how your exorcising X3 demons with this. Going back over the last conversation Logan & Xavier had. I never really placed much thought that their last exchange was an argument. I also love you simultaneous X1 references. Sharp as a tack is what you are.
So I looked up The Once And Future King & didn't realize that it made an appearance in X2! Apparently the comics also reference it. Awesomesauce! I always feel like I stumble upon the best Easter eggs in your fics. Did you include this work because it was used in the various X-Men works or just a personal preference you found fitting?
Author's Response: Hi sahara! Yes, I've always liked how Rogue and Logan seem similar in that way, in X1. Both twitchy and defensive, trying to survive, just on the cusp of despair. And the colors they used for her, all that green and auburn and brown. She always felt like a kind of woodland creature, someone raw. The smart/old thing with the three of them really gets me. I think they, along with Jean, are the characters who are always trying to suppress what they know and how they know it and how that informs how they live in the world. And how desperately hard all that knowing makes their daily lives. It's moving. And that last conversation between Logan and Xavier in X3 just HAUNTS me. Because to some extent I think it's total character assassination for both of them, but at the same time, I think it's amazing, provocative, interesting character assassination. The monster that it makes out of Xavier, and the way Patrick Stewart, like a boss, just delivers these really disturbing lines, about Xavier's conduct with Jean, Jean's mind. The man it reveals him to be. What he's capable of. And the way Logan learns all of this, the distrust and horror that descend upon him. But also his somewhat annoying over-righteous indignance. I don't know, it's a very, very disturbing scene. Ah--and as for The Once and Future King--I'm working it in because of it's relation to Xavier and Magneto in the movies. There are things in it that illuminate Xavier's character and way of thinking about education in particular, for sure. Thanks again for all these wonderful comments and observations! It's always a pleasure to hear from you.