#tooth for tooth

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[claudecontemplates]

Hi! Sorry for the random message, but I need to explain something important. I've been trying to reach you, but I haven't been able to. There might be an issue. Could you send me a DM? I can't explain everything here.

Hello beautiful 🥰

I've been feeling extra naughty recently 😈💋😻

Feel free to DM me for anything you want.

[justasussybitch]

I can kind of see Luke taking his “power” as far as he can. Like getting to the point where he’s asking Aemond to bottom for him. Whether Aemond would ever get to that place remains to be seen (you’ve said one of the things primary to this Aemond is we can’t get into his mind). I picture Luke probably coming as soon as in that position due to his “he’s nothing without me” line of thought we have seen this chapter (I’ve summarised that terribly you wrote it way more compelling but I can’t fit Luke’s state of mind into a 4 word sentence I’ll leave that to the professionals (you!)).

If he got to the point where he’s got Aemond to the point in his fake love routine to open up his “cunt” willingly, it would probably be his greatest achievement in his now fucked up mind lol.

Knowing how Jealous Aemond was of Sel I can see him thinking well Luke doesn’t need pussy he’s got mine. Because again, he’s delusional !

Unfortunately luke coming from the power trip would probably convince Aemond he has crazy throw back power and rules Luke with his ass and dick and I don’t want that for him haha. Picturing Luke’s reaction to Aemond thinking HES the one being manipulated with sex is hilarious though 😂😂.

This is probably so duh but I think Luke has really been conditioned to see sex=power which is obviously a symptom of his abuse. How he’d go about having healthy sexual relationships in the future (even with women!) puzzles me. I don’t know if you read the fic nobody, nothing, nowhere by hypothesistest but it also plays the abuse quite straight too and focuses on the impact it has on Luke and is one of my favourite fics on the subject matter with how it explores how the abuse affected Luke long after it was over and in what ways his abuse reared it’s head (which I can see in your excerpt you posted today!) during his everyday life and his attempts at intimacy. I’m really looking forward to the sequel for this reason and it will NOT be a skip for me! I love your Luke for who is not his bussy!!

If Luke did ever make it back to his family how do you think he would go back to being Rhaena’s bethrothed or Rhaenyra’s “good boy”. Especially if Jacegan is canon in your views. One brother experiencing the joys of bottoming with the man he swore a blood oath to up north after building a relationship through hunting and drinking and friendship versus the other experiencing it as this shameful reaction from his body that makes him unworthy and had brought so much pain on a physical and psychological level!

The irony of Jace going to a secluded castle during war time and being the one with the healthy sexual experience versus Luke going from an argument with his uncle

Just Luke whump all around!

I haven’t read this fic since December?? I think but you being back has got me on theories galore! Please let me know if you don’t like this kind of in depth q&a’s for your fics and I’ll stop no harm done! I’m just usually question question question about character dynamics!

Thank you very much for listening to my delusions I just like your work a lot haha

some more, slightly more spoiler-y stuff

"he’s nothing without me" summarises it pretty well. Aemond tried to make himself the centre of Luke's life & in the process made Luke the centre of his, oops. Luke didn't ask to be part of this dynamic, but if they're going to be stuck in each other's gravity he's certainly going to use it to whatever advantage he can. which definitely means making power plays via fucking (as you point out, this whole thing has taught him power=sex, which already is an idea pretty present in Westeros). i may have to break out the switch! tags for Hand for Hand.

('may'. i already have a pretty strong (ha) idea for how bottom!Aemond is going to make it's appearance in the plot)

i hadn't read the fic nobody, nothing, nowhere by hypothesistest, but thank you for the rec because i went & devoured it today. really great psychological stuff. based on it, i don't think you'll be disappointed by what i have planned for Tooth for Tooth. strangely, the lucemond dynamics in nobody, nothing, nowehere -- the only one able to understand what the other has been through -- feels like the cousin to the darker, more fucked up lucemond dynamics i have planned for hand for hand. nobody, nothing, nowhere did actually manage to make me regret for a second not writing a more wholesomely co-dependent lucemond. for a very loose definition of wholesome. because them getting to heal together was an amazing ending to read. unfortunately, the Aemond in lflfefe isn't a fellow victim but the abuser (Aegon, meanwhile, has two for two going on the rapist front). i do plan for Rhaena to have a small part in Tooth for Tooth, and a larger part in Hand for Hand. i won't say more, except to thank you for the reminder that fleshing out some non-Luke relationships might be worthwhile. i mean, personally, i think Luke should be the centre of all relationships -- romantic, platonic, familial -- but apparently having everything be in relation to just one character can make it hard to 'flesh out themes' or 'build the narrative' smh. (side tangent, but i read the Locked Tomb series this year & that had fucking amazing side character/relationship work, so definitely something i want to practice!) you make a good point that jacegan could have some very juicy parallels. thank you for the ask(s)! it's amazing having someone care this much about the character dynamics in something i wrote. fanfic as a medium has very different rules & conventions to, say, novel as a medium, but for me, even as i'm being self-indulgent, LFLEFE (& Deuteronomy 19-21) is a place where i'm cutting my teeth in regards to character work, relationship dynamics, plotting, etc. and also just finishing a piece of writing (even if it takes years). so it's very validating to have someone analyse & theorise like this! based on the ask(s) i think there's quite a few things you'll enjoy if i stick to my current outline ;)

[justasussybitch]

Wow I really have no idea how things could go based off your spoilers which I think is a due to your writing talents and my being a dumb bitch (but I’m usually really good at connecting dots!)

Tooth for tooth: maybe Luke does successfully escape (he’s in the riverlands with what I imagine is the traditional look and maybe moves with an army??) or maybe he’s just under guards and one tried to take liberties?? The No Aemond tag has perplexed me but I’m hoping for some black family bonding. Hoping he sees his mother again and can speak to her before we leave your both tragic and hopeful (lol—he’s alive isn’t he???) world. I’m nervous though esp for my bbygrl nyra. She’s usually a head on a platter by fics end 🥲 (but maybe this is switcharoo!! ~delusion~)

Hand for hand: throw me out with the bath water maybe Aemonds now captive??? But I’m not sure if Luke would go to Aemond if his family could find out considering the shame he feels. Hoping for maybe war stuff but the smut has me stumped and I’m ignoring the most logical answer (Aemond has him again). I feel like that one picture of Charlie day from always Sunny in front of a cork board trying to solve this because I was a chapter 15 escape truther!

See these assumptions are based off if these are equal length fics!! Hand for hand could be a 5 shot for all I know hahahha

But dude lost 3 fingers and an eye and I know your description/tags at one point (not sure if it still does) has a line about how some people only get some of what they deserve and considering how other of your fics ended im kind of hoping (delusionally) for a somewhat hopeful ending (in Luke’s POV — boy probably considers him and Aemond dead a win for him :( )

Thanks for the the spoilers! Made my day 😁 (probably not Luke’s tho—OR is he actually in a “good” place in your excerpt?? At least in Luke’s mind lmao)

very slight spoiler-y stuff

i'm delighted you're thinking so much about what's to come for Luke. in a lot of places you're close to the outline ;)

right now, for Tooth for Tooth i'm aiming for just four chapters, though they'll be on the longer side. Hand for Hand is definitely the lengthier of the two in terms of what i have planned.

Luke is in a better place than he has been in a while. but that bar is kind of six foot under.

i'm like 90% sure you're the same anon you sent the next ask as well, so i'll continue my answer there (if you're not, my apologies and thank you for the ask! i definitely think there's some things you'll enjoy if i stick to my current outline)

[justasussybitch]

Any crumbs/spoilers/scene leaks for lflefe sequel?? I promise to forget about them by next week and completely erase them from my mind by the time the sequel comes out. You can trust me I was a scout 🫡🫡💞

well, i mean, if you were a scout spoilers ahead

the bad news (for us, anyway, for Luke its amazing news): Aemond will not be a character tag in the sequel (tooth for tooth). aka he will be sir-not-appearing-in-this-fic-unless-you-count-luke's-nightmares.

the good news (for us, for Luke its horrible news): the sequel to the sequel (hand for hand) will have Aemond as a character tag. and boy will he be present.

tooth for tooth is essentially Luke being given time away from Aemond, in order for him to be in a place where he can be on... well, not equal footing with Aemond but equal-ish footing when they meet again. this does mean, unfortunately, there will be minimal porn in tooth for tooth. you can probably just wait the year(s) for me to write hand for hand & skip reading tooth for tooth if its the smut you're waiting for & are happy to experience a time skip, but i want to write out Luke's character development & fanfic is all about indulging yourself so...

& a small scene leak (cw: violence):

Luke did not sleep, though he pretended to well enough. And, as the bedroll was pulled away from his body and a hand went to his stomach, he thrust the dagger, held tight in his hands the entire night, into the man’s throat.

There was a gurgling sound. Blood ran down Luke’s arms and dripped onto his face. Some landed on his lips, and he tasted iron. Salt. But the man’s eyes were still staring at him, wide, aware, scared, so Luke’s hands drove the dagger into those as well. And then the body was beneath him and the dagger was stabbing it, over and over, until the body and his hands and the dirt was red, drenched in the man’s blood, and he was breathing heavily, lungs heaving like there was not enough air, like he was flying on Arrax above the clouds, and the man was still.

For a second the corpse had long hair, silver in the moonlight. But then Luke blinked and it was back to being short and black.

[jennyf1135]

Eye for An Eye

…life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Deuteronomy 19:21 NKJV)

Jesus: You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other (cheek) to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.…

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[sweet-sweetz]

March 4: The Impulse for Vengeance

“Revenge loses sight of the end in the the means, but its end is not wholly  bad-- it wants the evil of the bad man to be to him what it is to everyone else. This is proved by the fact that the avenger wants the guilty party not merely to suffer, but to suffer at his hands, and to know it, and to know why. Hence the impulse to taunt the guilty man with his crime at the moment of taking vengeance: hence, too, such natural expressions as ‘I wonder how he’d like it if the same thing were done to him’ or ‘I’ll teach him’. For the same reason, when we are going to abuse a man in words we say we are going to ‘let him know what we think of him’. “ - C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

- Romans 12:19-21 -  Something better than vengeance and scarier than one’s revenge: God’s wrath...