Savimiris fic for the wip ask game?
Oooh well it's inspired by Imposters, your amazing fic wherein Thawne impersonates Barry, traps him somwhere, and teams up with Mirror Iris. It got me thinking of a possible idea where Savitar does that instead...and Savimiris has been an intriguing crackship idea of mine for a while, so I figured I'd throw that in the mix too. So they team up and decide to play the happy couple. I just...haven't decided what Savitar's goal yet.
In this fic, Mirror Iris was withholding affection from Barry leading up to this, and since she and Savitar are both on the same page, any affection between them will be consensual (though...it'll take a while until they actually do it as more than just a means to deceive Team Flash 😅). She also still has her arc from 6b about learning to make choices that aren't just serving Eva's mission, choosing for herself...feeling more like a person than an extension of Eva. Her growing love for Savitar, being not in line with Eva's plan and a form of passion unbefitting Eva's loyal soldier, shows this - the more Mirror Iris falls in love with Savitar, the more she feels human, the more she feels like her own person. Which is a double-edged sword (hooray for furthering her agency, but also...Eva's her creator/mother, and Mirror Iris loves her as much as she's capable of doing, breaking from her isn't going to be easy). At the very least, kissing Savitar doesn't feel as wrong as kissing Barry (which Mirror Iris avoided as often as possible, but ofc she couldn't always...still, she made sure it was infrequent, she much preferred withholding affection...and she couldn't possibly explain the crisis of conscience to Eva, so she excused it as "not cruel enough"). With her and Savitar, there's no deceit between them.
Savitar, for his part, isn't shy about the fact that he loved Iris. But what he's deceiving himself about is that he doesn't love Mirror Iris the same way. That's true at first, it's a ruse at first, but...he does fall for her genuinely as time goes on. Not as Iris...but as Mirror Iris. As who she really is - a version of Iris, who shares her memories, but who is nonetheless her own person with her own feelings and agency.
For the sake of convenience, Savitar doesn't have his scar here. He can't, for the sake of impersonation. Usually I wouldn't write Savitar as he is in canon without it (because I hate it, but it is canonically a part of him), but...although the Saviris scene hits hard when Iris is touching his scar, it can in theory work if he's scar-less.
And honestly if the writers can't bother explaining the scar that they only included to mark Savitar as evil/broken, I can't be bothered to include it 🤷♀️ unless I have an explanation to go along with it.
I also haven't decided yet if this is a villains win fic, though I'm leaning that way (the Saverb fic that @kitkatt0430 wrote has opened my eyes to the villains win potential, esp where Savitar's involved). I hate Iris suffering in the Mirrorverse arc, but...this is primarily a Savimiris fic, so...🤷♀️
“You’ve always loved raving about your latest article, especially to me. Not hiding something from me, are you?”
“No!” She forced another laugh, put her hand on his chest. “No, of course not. Don’t you trust me?”
“Hmm.” He smirked, squeezed her hand just tight enough that she realized too late that she was supposed to wince. “Not bad. You might actually be able to keep them fooled.”
She laughed in disbelief. “What?”
“Please. You don’t think I know the real Iris when I see her?”
She narrowed her eyes. “Come on, honey, you’re not thinking st—”
“Cut the act.” His eyes flashed, startling her. “You’re not Iris…and I’m not Barry. But if you’re willing…I have a proposition for you.”
“Not interested.”
“Oh no, I think you’ll be very interested in this one. Whatever it is you need…you still need to stay under the radar, keep Team Pep-Talk from finding you out. As do I.”
She frowned. “What do you need?”
He smirked. “What do you need?”
…well. Touché, she supposed.
