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[rivkat]

Firefly. Wow. I've never laughed so hard at a torture scene in my life. And none of the characters are rewrites of Buffy/Angel characters, the way that WW characters rewrite those of SN. There's traits, sure, but Wash is more than a little bit Xander, a little bit Oz. If Zoe kicks any more ass, she's going to have to aim at her own backside, 'cause nothing else is left.

Is anyone else watching Taken? I find it interesting and boring by turns. Halfway through, so I guess I'm committed to watching until the end. It's nowhere near the commitment that, say, the last two seasons of XF were.

I have a very strange vertical bruise along my spine at the small of my back. Can't figure out how I got it. My body is as much a stranger to me as anyone else's.

I was reading Derek Lowe's excellent chemistry blog, and the following story came to me, chemistry copied and/or paraphrased from him. I'm not sure it's worth posting elsewhere (nor am I sure it would fit on LexSlash, though it's UST-friendly). Dark Lex. Please comment.

Philadelphia
Summary: There are signposts on the road to darkness. Or, if all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister?

Edited: go here for the final version of the story.

Comments

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well seeing as you asked... Excellently written story, made me shiver - and not in a good way.

However, this version of Lex strikes me as a little premature canonwise. I don't think that he's second season Lex, because I don't think that Lex would - yet - indulge in this kind of behaviour. Killing Nixon to defend Jonathon is a very different proposition from not only killing his brother in cold blood, but also the innocent bystanders.

That said, you don't specifically state when the story is set and although Clark is still obviously at High School in Smallville, by his senior year it is possible that Lex will be sufficiently far along on his path to evil to carry out these cold-blooded, pre-planned murders. I must admit that my personal preference is to think of Lex acting like this only post-rift, not pre, but that's not to say that these actions taking place pre-rift are not plausible, because they clearly are. But I think on balance that I would find the story more in keeping of how I see Lex (accepting completely that your Lex isn't necessarily my Lex, of course) if both he and Clark are living in Metropolis when these actions occurred, so that it's Lex at least 4 or 5 years from now.

Doesn't mean that the story doesn't work very well as is, though, because it does IMO. Mind you, I don't like to think of even Future!Evil!Lex! acting like this. Whimper.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the detailed comments. I see exactly what you're saying. I'm not sure I want to set it in the Metropolis era, but I should make clear that it's not second-season Lex either. This is Lex near the end of his time in Smallville, when he's learned a lot more from Lionel and forgotten most of what Clark was trying to teach him. I do think it's pre-Rift, because in my megalomaniacal cosmology Lex is doing a lot of bad things before Clark finally admits that to himself, triggering the Rift.