Fic: Needs. PG-13.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Another bunny that's been nagging at me. A crackfic gapfiller for Legion.

"Can't put one past you, you mad Second Technician."

Crit is always good. Written for fanfic100. Little Damn Table.

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[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Ja, people aren't sufficiently sympathetic when it comes to Legion - I mean, he had to be made up with all of them!

There was something very strange going on with Rimmer when he walks into the breakfast room in that 'morning-after' scene in Legion, when he asks "Why is he [Legion] so obsessed with fulfilling our every desire?" He is hideously uncomfortable, and avoids eye contact with the rest. I like to speculate on what every-desire of his was fulfilled.

[tawg.livejournal.com]

I have spotted this in some of your other stories *smirk*

One thing I'm finding interesting about my re-watching of Red Dwarf is the use of sex. I mean, I started watching before I hit double digits, so a lot of the innuendo that went over my head is now pinching my cheeks and cooing over how cute I am. But, for the most part, the sexual needs and desires of the crew - alright, just Lister and Rimmer - don't seem to come up much. Admittedly, when they do it's incredibly fascinating.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

It's the naughty little subject that dances at the edges of the script...

Lister's sexal drives come out a little in VI and a lot in VII. I found it odd that there wasn't something similar for Rimmer and Cat. Well, Cat would have had his with Identity Within...

[tawg.livejournal.com]

And Rimmer has Rachel.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Indeed, but we never see that dynamic, as we do with Lister in most of the VII eps and as we do with Cat in IDW. We really only see that side of Rimmer in Holoship and, indirectly, in Thanks For The Memory. After all, on Starbug, there's only so much room for runs, and the gardening programs were left on Red Dwarf. ;)

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Rimmer is sometimes written as rather asexual. Consider his astonishment at Lister's early sexual experiences (well, that rather astonished me too, but it was meant to be extreme of course). Then again, this could just as easily be representative of a repressed sexuality, and that's where we're at. ;)

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Mmm... repression...

And Nirvanah has to drag him to bed (literally, if you watch the deleted scenes). It's like he's been raised to be ashamed of sexuality, or something like that. :p