Amy Pond canon-compliant character study (I will rip your heart out just like I did mine)
You are Amy Pond and your best friend is a man who tumbled into your life when you were a child and turned you into the town’s Cassandra, doomed to never be believed, doomed to believe without salvation, and yet your faith in has never wavered, because what would you be without him? You don't remember existing in a world without your god.
You are Amy Pond and you are kind and you have faith until that faith is forcefully broken to save your life. You become Lucy Pevensie, cast out of your kingdom by the only god you have ever believed in, so you choose to build your own kingdom, to make a life out of the wreckage that he left behind.
But that is not enough. It will never be enough. You are not allowed to leave this story. You are not allowed to grow up in a way that matters, because every time you try to choose, every time that you try to build a life of your own, you are dragged back into this story.
You are Amy Pond and this is a horror story, a tragedy, because you were never allowed to make a choice unless that choice is to die. You are not allowed to choose unless it is to kill yourself. You die on Appalappachia. You die in Manhattan. Any time you get to make a decision, death is there, hand outstretched, ready to walk you off the stage.
You are Amy Pond and you are a ghost haunting other people's stories.
You are Amy Pond and you died before you were born.
You are Amy Pond and you are kind even though the world was never kind to you and maybe, just maybe, this would have been a kinder story if you hadn't believed. If you hadn't held faith. If you had let the memory of your imaginary friend slide away.
The world might have ended earlier. The universe might have been worse off. But would you have? Would you have been happier?
The answer doesn't matter in the end. It never did.
Because there's nothing you can do. No other way this story ends.
You are Amy Pond and you do not get to leave. You do not get to change your story.
You are Amy Pond and you are Amelia Williams and you are Amelia Pond and your story ends as it began: with a girl sitting in a garden, waiting for a man to pick you up and take you to your death.
(Amy Pond and being trapped within the narrative: aka, the question of narrative framing and the consequences of faith.)
Full version of the poem(? Character study?) here:
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Hi, do you have any recommendations for Dick and Slade fics where their relationship is explored? It doesn't matter if it's a pairing or not. P.S.: I really love your posts
Thank you!!
And boy do I have them! All of these are my favorites. They're fics I specifically saved separately because I loved them. I hope you do too!
FAVORITE!! The thrill I get when I read this. The high. It's almost incomparable. Sladick in cyberspace. I don't even like cyber punk but I loved this fic - Gray Area
FAVORITE!! I talked about this one before but it's the perfect fic for apprentice Sladick. Read it so many times, I can't get enough of it. - Nightwing Protocol
FAVORITE!! This is one of my comfort fics, I love the whole collections so much. Slade and Dick get married and run off to the Maldives - I Guess Time Will Tell What the Come Down is Like
Slade comes for his Talon. That's his Dick Grayson dammit - Reclaiming an Owl
Favorite! I hope you don't mind but I'm sneaking in this Tiger/Dick fic forgive mee. Tiger's infuriatingly attracted to Dick's lips - Soft lips
FAVORITE!! Jedi Dick meets Sith Slade. And their relationship is always the same - Breathe With Confidence
Slade and Dick are soulmates much to the displeasure of Joey and the happiness of Rose - family in any form
Slade is a god of war and Dick is the demigod of shadows. They meet on the battlefield - Echoes of the Battlefield
Dick is a bartender. And Slade doesn't have identification - The Barkeeper
FAVORITE!! Dick is Aphrodite and Slade is Ares but Dick is a terrifying figure when spurned - Contradiction
FAVORITE!! Dick is Persephone and Slade is Hades and the story fits perfectly - When September Ends
FAVORITE!! Dick and Slade are both Alphas but that's not going to stop Slade in the force of his attraction for Dick - Ready or Knot
Favorite! Dick comes back with bruises, Jason thinks he lost a fight, Tim knows better, and the truth accidentally comes out - B is for Bruises
Series of prompts for Omega Dick and Sladick - Omega!Dick Week
Sladick if Dick had become Slade's apprentice from the start. He's coming back home - Home for the Holidays
FAVORITE!! Slade and Dick take care of each other - Follow Me (Don't Be Such a Fool)
Favorite! Slade takes Dick along South to a bar and Dick has some new discoveries - As Sweet As Strawberry Wine
Favorite! The whole collection! I really love the one with Deadshot but here's the first one with Slade! Remember when Dick paid of Deathstroke not to take a hit on Amy? Here's what happened after - Sell Your Soul
Slade's straight. So is Tiger. And so is most of the harem. They just like him - Attack of the Exes
FAVORITE!! The whole freaking collection?! Star Wars AU of Sladick. Taken to the dark side - Want is a Full Contract
Actually victoriousscarf's stuff is just too good - victoriousscarf
Dick basically goes fuck it. I'm tired of being good. and butts off to be slade's apprentice - Subverting Expectation
Favorite! Dick is a witch and the massive bloody wolf at his door is obviously just a wolf, right? - My Beloved Deathstroke
Slade can't just let Dick stay as Ric. He's too good for that - Madness Started the Moment We Met
FAVORITE!! Ric meets a man at the fight club. And that man is a little too interesting to let go - Like a Virus
FAVORITE!! Dick receives some interesting videos from Slade. Slade has always been good at enticing Dick - Puppet Show
FAVORITE!! Supernatural AU where Dick is Sam and Slade is Ruby. Jason's gone but Dick's gonna get his little brother back. No matter what it takes - On the Head of a Pin
FAVORITE!! Same as above! - Point of Fracture
FAVORITE!! I will sink my teeth into this collection and shake it because it's so good. YJ! Dick becomes the spy instead of Kaldur - Foundations
Favorite! Slade visits Dick in the hospital but Dick's not awake. Although Mar'i is - Give Us This Day
FAVORITE!! Midnighter/Dick/Slade. Dick's gone, right? Then who is then man with a swirling face that reminds Slade of him? - The Third Kind
Favorite! Dick is a sailor and Slade is a merman - I am a Sailor, and you are the Sea
Another Star Wars AU - Resolute in Resurrection
FAVORITE!! Slade acted so unaffected before. There's none of that now - every shadow filled up with doubt
Dick swears he's only here to rescue Damian. It's not his fault Slade was also locked up - (practice our prayers) until some hope crystallizes
FAVORITE!! Dick's mother always told him never to deal with the Fae. But some situations call for it - deal with the devil
FAVORITE!! They had a deal. But Slade's deal never was supposed to be about catching feelings - Maroon Haze
FAVORITE!! Dick has magic and Slade is cursed - i have hurt and hungered before (flesh against flesh)
FAVORITE!! I have read this fic over and over again. I love the younger Slade and Older Dick dynamic - running fever
Not a ship
FAVORITE!! When Slade took in Robin as an apprentice, he was a kid. A teenager. Get woke slade. Funny!! - Why did I think this was a good idea?
Dick is Robin and Slade's protective father instincts kick in - Made Peace
FAVORITE!! One of my all time favorites. Dick's name gets pulled out of the hogwarts cup as the Hogwarts Champion. But..he never put his in - heavy is the crown
Favorite! Bruce doesn't get to get away with Spyral. Dick leaves Bruce for Slade - deeds of men depraved
I have way more but this is a good starting point I think. Lemme know if you're interested in more!
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