It's a "deprogramming him required more than just a blow to the head" story -- since I feel like that's much too easy of an answer. But I'm still working on figuring out what it did require.
I like your answer over on DW, btw. I think what I'm going to run with, though, is the reverse of what you had in "Cakewalk:" that she fears watching somebody she loves be brainwashed. Since, after all, that's more or less what she's been through herself, so she understands the full horror of it.
Meant to add to the previous comment that this:
Good God! So this is what it's like to write in a currently popular fandom, even if not for the juggernaut pairing.
made me laugh and laugh. I had the same reaction, almost verbatim, when I posted "Broken by the Light" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/402832) and got two hundred hits in, like a day. For somebody who doesn't write much fanfic, and most of whose fanfic has been for itsy-bitsy Yuletide fandoms, that felt like a flood.
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Not yet, anyway. DAMMIT BRAIN, STOP THAT.
It's a "deprogramming him required more than just a blow to the head" story -- since I feel like that's much too easy of an answer. But I'm still working on figuring out what it did require.
I like your answer over on DW, btw. I think what I'm going to run with, though, is the reverse of what you had in "Cakewalk:" that she fears watching somebody she loves be brainwashed. Since, after all, that's more or less what she's been through herself, so she understands the full horror of it.
Meant to add to the previous comment that this:
Good God! So this is what it's like to write in a currently popular fandom, even if not for the juggernaut pairing.
made me laugh and laugh. I had the same reaction, almost verbatim, when I posted "Broken by the Light" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/402832) and got two hundred hits in, like a day. For somebody who doesn't write much fanfic, and most of whose fanfic has been for itsy-bitsy Yuletide fandoms, that felt like a flood.