Ficlet - "Fun" R/L, PG

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

Lister was a little annoyed that Rimmer got to tell his side and he didn't get to tell his. Post-Stoke Me A Clipper.

I never could see the constellations as they were supposed to be from Earth...

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[arathesane.livejournal.com]

oh, very done and quite angsty. I love the angst!

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

I'm an angst addict... I can't help it. :p Good to know I have company! :)

[lady-draco.livejournal.com]

Very angsty! =) I really liked it. It never occured to me that Rimmer's heart wouldn't beat so that was a nice touch ... *squee* Very nice.

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

It wasn't addressed in canon (I don't think?), so I just did something arbitrary. I figgered he would have an energy circulatory system and not a blood one.

Yay! I got a squee!

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Aw... Dave, sweetie... He can't. I know how you feel, but he's worse off than you think. Even after all that, he wasn't sure. *hugs dave*

I bring comments!

it's like you know you're going to drown, so you're happy to just pull down whoever you can get your hands on so you won't be alone at the bottom. But not being alone at the top is something I don't think yer ever considered.

Yep, that's Rimmer alright. See, Dave, you know what the score is. The idea of mutual love is too good to be true to him.

Make you sit down in a chair and tell you how you make the stars dim; tell you how lovely you are until even you had to believe it.

Beautiful. And hah, ironic, isn't it? The one thing Rimmer would have needed is the one thing Dave could never make himself say. Oh dear, their love is so screwed up.

it couldn't help but make me wonder if there was a human there at all.

Mmm... If only he knew...

If I had asked.

But you didn't, smeghead! Go on then, lie in the bed you made!

*looks around* *clears throat*

Yes, well, I get way too into this stuff, like I said. ;)

[kahvi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and re: the subroutine stuff... *points to icon*

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

*squee!*

[roadstergal.livejournal.com]

(classroom mode) I'll take the last part first... (/classroom mode)

Larry Niven used to talk about well-created fictional universes as being "Playgrounds of the Mind" - i.e. places and characters and situations that live on in the brain and allow you to create your own version of that world. I got the impression that he considered that to be the highest form of flattery, and in that sense, I think we all flatter Grant, Naylor, and all of the actors who created RD - because they do live on. RD has a very real existence outside of the show and the books, and the characters really do get into our heads and come to life. It can be a bit scary, sometimes. :p

Ja, I always got the feeling that Rimmer would be the type who would be implacably loyal if he let someone in, but that it would take a serious effort to get him to let someone in. I don't think Dave took that final step, here - and Arn is just too un-self-confident to speak how he feels without that sharing being given to him first.