It's fun to analyze one's own fic, I've found. Especially when it can help with ideas for sequels... ::hints innocently::
That said, I'm not entirely sure how happy I am with how callous McKay turned out. It was the bloody McKay ficathon, and my previously silent Ford!muse took over. I don't know if anything shows through about how McKay might be feeling about... well, about any of it. I have a tendancy to get totally into one character's head and leave the reader with no clue why the other characters do what they do.
Interesting. Well, I could read enough that I caught the punishment thing, if that helps, and McKay certainly reacted the way that Ford figured he would... I have to agree that I don't think McKay would be that callous, either, though. Not normally, anyway, but don't forget he was mad--really, really mad, even--and I can actually totally buy McKay doing this as a total punishment thing, that if Ford had only been honest, rather than sneaking around, McKay would have been a lot warmer and welcoming, rather than kind of rubbing Ford's own homosexuality in his face.
So, I can also see that McKay will indeed eventually recriprocate--once he twigs that Ford really wants this, or him, or even once Ford is willing to admit that what they do together even exists, you know?
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Date: 2004-11-09 06:21 am (UTC)That said, I'm not entirely sure how happy I am with how callous McKay turned out. It was the bloody McKay ficathon, and my previously silent Ford!muse took over. I don't know if anything shows through about how McKay might be feeling about... well, about any of it. I have a tendancy to get totally into one character's head and leave the reader with no clue why the other characters do what they do.
Interesting. Well, I could read enough that I caught the punishment thing, if that helps, and McKay certainly reacted the way that Ford figured he would... I have to agree that I don't think McKay would be that callous, either, though. Not normally, anyway, but don't forget he was mad--really, really mad, even--and I can actually totally buy McKay doing this as a total punishment thing, that if Ford had only been honest, rather than sneaking around, McKay would have been a lot warmer and welcoming, rather than kind of rubbing Ford's own homosexuality in his face.
So, I can also see that McKay will indeed eventually recriprocate--once he twigs that Ford really wants this, or him, or even once Ford is willing to admit that what they do together even exists, you know?
Cool fic. Definitely made me think. ;->
Leah