I need a Corruption!Martin AU. A Martin who, in fleeing his loneliness reaches out for toxic love, love that will use him and give him purpose and belonging and identity even as it destroys him, consumes him.
Because doesn't Jane Prentiss's corruption echo Martin?
Martin, who gave up his adolescence and his independence to care for a woman who hated him, because maybe he could make her love him (make himself be a home for her)
Martin, who fell in love with a man who was contemptuous of him, clinging to the faintest drop of care and devoting himself completely no matter what (drawn by the prospect of being genuinely loved, of being given purpose)
Martin, who, when he lost the one he loves, lost the two people who for whom he had striven to be a home, fled to the empty, toxic embrace of the only one who showed an interest in him (in using him, destroying him, needing him), and yet whose love is so consuming that he nearly let himself be consumed by the Lonely in order to protect the one whose love he desires.
Martin, who takes care of other people even if it destroys him, because he is so desperate for love ("A need as much as a feeling. Love that consumes you in all ways.")
Martin, who so deeply fears losing his friends (he had friends, at least he used to, but he lost them)
Martin, who believes that if he loses the one he loves, he loses himself (is there more to a person than a habitat for what loves him)?
Martin, who creates the love that he had so desired, and in doing dooms both himself and the one he loves. (a love that consumes you in all ways)
The Corruption is what happens when fear of the Lonely meets the ruthlessness and self-sacrifice of the Web.
Because that is Martin: He uses his cunning to make himself a home for those who would love him.
