...which brings back our, like, SUPER EARLY conversation about how maybe Tony drove Obie slowly crazy and carried him straight to "Murder: for what ails you!" when no other legal/sane solution seemed possible.
I've kind of been working on that for a while (oh, and you'll see that; please pardon the mess at my journal-- the fic that won't fucking end is not looking its best right now and I am FIXING IT and if you have any thoughts, please pitch in), since honestly Obadiah seems to spend all of his time wrangling Tony and seems very, very tired of it.
Here is where it became a magnificent moment in my life: when I put Obadiah and Pepper in the same room and all of a sudden (without admitting anything, of course) he was trying to connect with her on the long-suffering Tony Wrangler level. At which point it occurred to me:
a) He seriously thinks it's a good thing that he's trying to kill Tony because Tony is too annoying to live.
b) He seriously thinks on some level that Pepper would agree with him-- or, more, that after another ten years of Tony, Pepper would agree with him.
c) OH MY GOD, NOW I NEED TO WRITE MORE OF THESE TWO BECAUSE HE SO TOTALLY WILL WANT TO MENTOR HER. IT'S LIKE JACK DONAUGHY AND LIZ LEMON.
I have to lie down, I think. But I am so happy about having legal thoughts done by people who know their shit. SO SO HAPPY. If I could only figure out what post Pepper would be groomed for, I could... okay, I would say 'die happy' except I would be unhappy, having to choose between yapping on LJ with you guys about this stuff and ACTUALLY WRITING.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-29 10:25 pm (UTC)...which brings back our, like, SUPER EARLY conversation about how maybe Tony drove Obie slowly crazy and carried him straight to "Murder: for what ails you!" when no other legal/sane solution seemed possible.
I've kind of been working on that for a while (oh, and you'll see that; please pardon the mess at my journal-- the fic that won't fucking end is not looking its best right now and I am FIXING IT and if you have any thoughts, please pitch in), since honestly Obadiah seems to spend all of his time wrangling Tony and seems very, very tired of it.
Here is where it became a magnificent moment in my life: when I put Obadiah and Pepper in the same room and all of a sudden (without admitting anything, of course) he was trying to connect with her on the long-suffering Tony Wrangler level. At which point it occurred to me:
a) He seriously thinks it's a good thing that he's trying to kill Tony because Tony is too annoying to live.
b) He seriously thinks on some level that Pepper would agree with him-- or, more, that after another ten years of Tony, Pepper would agree with him.
c) OH MY GOD, NOW I NEED TO WRITE MORE OF THESE TWO BECAUSE HE SO TOTALLY WILL WANT TO MENTOR HER. IT'S LIKE JACK DONAUGHY AND LIZ LEMON.
I have to lie down, I think. But I am so happy about having legal thoughts done by people who know their shit. SO SO HAPPY. If I could only figure out what post Pepper would be groomed for, I could... okay, I would say 'die happy' except I would be unhappy, having to choose between yapping on LJ with you guys about this stuff and ACTUALLY WRITING.