1.) When they’re on, both of them in full-on snark mode and trying to one-up the other, there’s lots of biting, lots of struggling to be the one on top and “in charge” of the situation. I can see both of them trying to leave a mark on the other: scratches and bites and bruises – not to hurt, but as proof that one of them “owns” the other. Chick usually wins.
2.) Chick. She does take care of the outside stuff, even if she doesn’t put as much effort into taking care of the rest of her body.
3.) Outside of the business things? Critic can’t stand the levels her drinking goes to whenever Chick falls into one of her periods of self-loathing. Chick looks down on him for sticking by ATG, even after everything he’s done to Critic.
4.) They’d both struggle with it, but overall I think Critic would be the one who handles it better. He’s used to people leaving, by force or by choice; it hurts, but it’s become a sad fact of life by now that everyone he loves eventually leaves him and really, he’s been so beaten down by this point that he believes there’s nothing he can do to change it. If it were reversed, I think Chick would put on a good front, but it would eat away at her like everything does and she’d eventually self-destruct.
5.) Chick’s the one who finally gets the strength to leave, and she picks New York as the place where she’s going to try and start over. Critic comes with her at the absolute last minute; they argue about her leaving and he tells her no, he can’t go without his brother, and she is literally pulling away from the curb in front of his building when he runs up out of nowhere and pounds on the window, making her stop and unlock the doors so he can toss a bag in the backseat. There’s no sunset to drive off into and they snipe at each other the entire time, but when they get to the “Leaving Chicago” sign Critic’s hand finds hers across the gearshift. Chick lets him keep it there for ten minutes, then insults his taste in music and makes him change the station on the radio.
6.) That Other Girl works her way down her list, saving Chick and Critic for last. She ties Chick up and makes her watch while she tears him down, really digging in the fact that what she’s been “forced to do” to the other people in the club is both their faults – that <>i>everything is their fault. Critic dies believing it. Chick holds out to the end.
7.) I love that how out of everyone, their relationship here is still kind of the same as the one they have outside this AU. They’re still snarky and bratty and bossy as all hell, but there’s a darker edge to the affection they have for each other and that’s probably my favorite thing about these two.
8.) Sometimes I feel like I don’t get them the way you or Freya or Nombre do. You all seem to really understand these characters and know what makes them tick, and sometimes I think that when I write them, I’m not getting it right.
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winterfish
Critic/Chick
Date: 2011-09-16 03:45 pm (UTC)2.) Chick. She does take care of the outside stuff, even if she doesn’t put as much effort into taking care of the rest of her body.
3.) Outside of the business things? Critic can’t stand the levels her drinking goes to whenever Chick falls into one of her periods of self-loathing. Chick looks down on him for sticking by ATG, even after everything he’s done to Critic.
4.) They’d both struggle with it, but overall I think Critic would be the one who handles it better. He’s used to people leaving, by force or by choice; it hurts, but it’s become a sad fact of life by now that everyone he loves eventually leaves him and really, he’s been so beaten down by this point that he believes there’s nothing he can do to change it. If it were reversed, I think Chick would put on a good front, but it would eat away at her like everything does and she’d eventually self-destruct.
5.) Chick’s the one who finally gets the strength to leave, and she picks New York as the place where she’s going to try and start over. Critic comes with her at the absolute last minute; they argue about her leaving and he tells her no, he can’t go without his brother, and she is literally pulling away from the curb in front of his building when he runs up out of nowhere and pounds on the window, making her stop and unlock the doors so he can toss a bag in the backseat. There’s no sunset to drive off into and they snipe at each other the entire time, but when they get to the “Leaving Chicago” sign Critic’s hand finds hers across the gearshift. Chick lets him keep it there for ten minutes, then insults his taste in music and makes him change the station on the radio.
6.) That Other Girl works her way down her list, saving Chick and Critic for last. She ties Chick up and makes her watch while she tears him down, really digging in the fact that what she’s been “forced to do” to the other people in the club is both their faults – that <>i>everything is their fault. Critic dies believing it. Chick holds out to the end.
7.) I love that how out of everyone, their relationship here is still kind of the same as the one they have outside this AU. They’re still snarky and bratty and bossy as all hell, but there’s a darker edge to the affection they have for each other and that’s probably my favorite thing about these two.
8.) Sometimes I feel like I don’t get them the way you or Freya or Nombre do. You all seem to really understand these characters and know what makes them tick, and sometimes I think that when I write them, I’m not getting it right.