In an early kink meme someone asked for ‘After Mohinder’s death, Matt/Sylar are company cellmates’, they may have specifically asked for hate sex but I don’t remember. I gave it a go but got mired down very quickly as I was having trouble envisioning any reason that Matt and Sylar would ever sleep together. I posted the bit I had and during a timestamp meme was asked to go back 6 months earlier and show how Matt had got there in the first place.
December is just before the middle, original, segment and it’s a very packed chapter. This section is the climax, if you’ll pardon the expression, of Matt and Adam’s relationship. In a lot of ways Adam is there to serve story functions but hopefully it’s integrated well enough that he’s a fun character in his own right. Adam was originally serving the role of the ‘old lag’ that is such a cliché in prison films, someone who clues the naive innocent on the rules, hierarchy, and codes that govern. It’s a cliché for a reason, you really need that person, or else you have to spend a stupid amount of time with your poor protagonist finding out the hard way the people he really shouldn’t tick off and what happens if he does. I tend to write V1.0 Adam, the Adam who was charismatic and led the company rather than the wide-boy second version that hung out in bars and was scared of Arthur Petrelli. Adam managed to lead strong minded and intelligent people like Angela and Linderman, so it seems to me that he’d have a lot of emotional intelligence and a very good understanding of other people. Certainly in Ruling in Hell, Adam served as a nice counterbalance to the continual betrayals and abuse that Matt was suffering. Matt had to have someone that he could talk to and to rely on and Adam the roommate filled that spot very nicely. Because the original request specified Mohinder was dead, Matt was still grieving and I was wary about him jumping into a consensual relationship too quickly. I wanted it to be a natural outgrowth of a shared fondness and warmth between them and that takes a little time.
They’re not in love and the sex is affectionate rather than passionate, but that’s what Matt needs. It’s a rare, much needed moment of calm and contentment before the escape and the major turn of the plot.
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Re: Ruling in Hell (December) :D
Date: 2009-11-13 05:28 pm (UTC)December is just before the middle, original, segment and it’s a very packed chapter. This section is the climax, if you’ll pardon the expression, of Matt and Adam’s relationship. In a lot of ways Adam is there to serve story functions but hopefully it’s integrated well enough that he’s a fun character in his own right. Adam was originally serving the role of the ‘old lag’ that is such a cliché in prison films, someone who clues the naive innocent on the rules, hierarchy, and codes that govern. It’s a cliché for a reason, you really need that person, or else you have to spend a stupid amount of time with your poor protagonist finding out the hard way the people he really shouldn’t tick off and what happens if he does. I tend to write V1.0 Adam, the Adam who was charismatic and led the company rather than the wide-boy second version that hung out in bars and was scared of Arthur Petrelli. Adam managed to lead strong minded and intelligent people like Angela and Linderman, so it seems to me that he’d have a lot of emotional intelligence and a very good understanding of other people. Certainly in Ruling in Hell, Adam served as a nice counterbalance to the continual betrayals and abuse that Matt was suffering. Matt had to have someone that he could talk to and to rely on and Adam the roommate filled that spot very nicely. Because the original request specified Mohinder was dead, Matt was still grieving and I was wary about him jumping into a consensual relationship too quickly. I wanted it to be a natural outgrowth of a shared fondness and warmth between them and that takes a little time.
They’re not in love and the sex is affectionate rather than passionate, but that’s what Matt needs. It’s a rare, much needed moment of calm and contentment before the escape and the major turn of the plot.