Five Times Obadiah Stane Cloned Tony Stark

[quigonejinn]

Yeah, I thought I was done with clones, too, but hrdazka started suggesting some variants that neither I nor jamaillith had thought of. Which, for those of you who are following along at home, jamaillith and me put together five fics about five different Clony Starks:

#1 - The Prototype. [PG - 490 words.]
#2 - The Golden Goose. [PG-13 - 404 words.]
#3 - The Ghosts In The Machine. [R - 4,871 words.]
#4 - The Patient Man. [PG - 1,440 words.]
#5 - The Happy Ending. [R - 2,584 words.]

#5 - The Happy Ending, which is 99.99% by jamaillith, is hands down my favorite. Read it if you don't read any of the others. It's just spectacular and heartbreaking. Seriously. She has an ear for the way that Tony and Rhodey talk to each other, and oh man. Oh man.

Comments

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Different kinds of fic, darling. You write frontal cortex stuff that's dense and plotty and requires lots of thinking and research. I mean, how intense are you about getting a plot re: Obie and Pep for TNF (the Neverending Fic)? And the Five Times fic you're working on re: Tony and the experiences? YOU THINK IT THROUGH AND CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO HOW TO DRINK SCOTCH.

Jam and I would just be like, eff that. Move stuff around, chop up the narrative, zoom close in on the action, and go for the porn. We're the limbic system, all instinct and adrenaline.

[obsession-inc.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, but I still study your ways. I feel that this ability you guys have to strip something down to its essentials-- more, to be able to identify what the essentials are in the first place-- is something that I lack, and is something that I would like very much to put in my toolbox. I tend toward "when in doubt, add more words", which does not always work.

I still need to go back to the Five Times. I may have identified what I got hung up on.

Also, it is your fault that A. spent an hour last night telling me about CLOBIE. And about the band: Rhodey and the Cloneys. AAAAAAGH. How can something so cracky in concept be so heartbreaking when you guys actually write it?