mormorfucker69

this one’s got more stamina but he’s less caring in the afterglow

[transmoriarty]

behold. the unofficial TVD/FIF locations project companion piece

a (mostly complete) guide & pics of places from the fic, & directions for a walkable tour if ur feelin nasty

powerpoint link

pdf version (might need to be downloaded due to size)

the map

for @pasiphile , thank u for everything <3

[jenny-holzer]

[schedude]

[97rqtlsms]

Okay

[transmoriarty]

………. so . obsession mormor au

[dilfgifs]

UNTAMED 1.05 Terces DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN 2.06 Requiem

[pasiphile]

hi pasi, firstly thank you so much for the amazing mormor, my view on sexuality and risk tolerance has been irrevocably changed. two questions - as a reoccurring theme i noticed seb has an aversion to being blindfolded. is that a hard limit and is there a backstory on that?

my other question is Does Seb have a medical kink? jim commented on it briefly in his POV and another instance during Seb's appt with Caro he was staring intently while she stitches him up like a proper weirdo so i've been intrigued ever since. thanks in advance!

You're welcome! I'd ask changed for the better? but let's not get into that :3

Okay, so, Sebastian does not have a medical kink. He just has a very pragmatic, practical relationship with his own body, and zero squeamishness. So when there's anything medical going on with him, him being interested is mostly just checking if his own first assessment was right, and gauging what the practical impact is going to be.

He does, however, have a massive Jim-kink so if it were him doing the stitches, the situation would be very different.

As for the blindfold, it's a bit tied to the VC story and the imprisonment/torture, but it's also meant to be more general than just a trauma-specific trigger. Mostly it's because one of Seb's central things is that he's very observant. He's a sniper, a bodyguard, he's used to constantly scanning the environment, noticing anything of import, interpreting, assessing, predicting. He's visual, first and foremost, so take that away from him and he suddenly loses a lot of his sense of control on the world.

So yeah, technically it's a hard limit. However...

He still isn't over how delightful this is, even if it's fiction. In a real fight Sebastian would overpower him in three second flat, but here he puts up just enough resistance to make Jim's dominance feel earned.

He throws Sebastian onto his stomach and grabs him by the neck, pushes him down. He bucks, briefly, and Jim tightens his grip, shoves him deeper so his face is in the pillow—taking care, of course, that he can still breathe. If he is going to do breathplay he's not fucking doing it accidentally.

And yet even though he double-checked, after a moment Sebastian start struggling in earnest. Jim keeps him down, curiously, other hand working his way towards Sebastian’s arse but then Sebastian goes briefly stiff, and the next moment Jim finds himself thrown back, a kick in the chest as Sebastian struggles back to his knees.

Jim leans back as Sebastian sits up, both of them breathing hard.

“What was that?” Jim asks, delighted. 

“Panic.” Sebastian lets out a long breath. “I—I'm not sure… ”

“Are you secretly claustrophobic?” Jim asks, although it’s not going to be that, he’s had Sebastian climb through air vents before without any complaint, but…

“No, I just hate not being able to see. Being blind. Always said no to blindfolds too.”

Jim tilts his head, storing that away, and judging by Sebastian's wary, slightly exasperated look he sees that happen.

“So if you insist on doing that it's gonna get intense,” Sebastian says.

Jim raises his eyebrows. “You're not saying no?”

“Is there any point? Would you listen?”

“Probably not,” Jim says lightly. “Does that bother you?”

“No. I trust you, I guess.”

And all of a sudden the atmosphere changes, becomes charged, Sebastian looking away awkwardly, frowning.

He trusts Jim.

[transmoriarty]

about to be the only man at the mitski concert thinking about Them

[emryses]

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

[zankivich]

And they don't tell you this, but every time you'll be a little older and think surely you've outgrown the power of fictional guy healing, and every time you will be wrong. You'll be so thankful you're wrong! Life is good y'all

[transmoriarty]

once in a manic episode i added this to my jim playlist n it’s honestly ruined my life ever since

[transmoriarty]

every time there’s seb dog imagery & im brought back to thinking about how he was captured at the end of fif

[transmoriarty]

behold. the unofficial TVD/FIF locations project companion piece

a (mostly complete) guide & pics of places from the fic, & directions for a walkable tour if ur feelin nasty

powerpoint link

pdf version (might need to be downloaded due to size)

the map

for @pasiphile , thank u for everything <3

[pasiphile]

I put a lot of importance on sense of place in my writing. It's one of the things I was very much missing when I was writing in fantasy ancient China, and a big joy to come back to when I picked up FiF again.

In general, I'm rather heavy on the realism when I'm writing, and the way I treat location is one aspect of that. I spent a lot of time and energy researching areas, neighbourhoods, looking up underground lines and stops and mapping out routes on google maps. Still, I've only actually been on holiday in London a handful of times, enough to get a general feel on the place but definitely not enough to be an expert. So to have an actual Londoner go hey I recognise that place (or, my personal favourite, I pass by that shopping centre every day and you're so right to blow it up) is the hightest of compliments.

Anyway! On to the guide:

Knightsbridge

It's been a while since I pinned this one, but basically I needed a super luxurious location for Jim's home, and during research I found the One Hyde Park flat, which fitted very well with what I had in my head. Plus, the thing with Knightsbridge history being one of criminal activity was very pleasing too.

I didn't know about Bilionaire's Row, though! But also pleasing, because in my head the street where they live definitely have plenty of empty or mostly-empty houses about.

So yeah, there isn't a perfect one-on-one match but I'm loving all the vibe pics, very much what I had in mind.

Loving the Winter Wonderland lore too, I'm already working on a lil prompt fill. (Especially because I used to live in a city which had a very big yearly festival week thing going on (hi Ghent) so I am intimately acquainted with tfw you're a native and all the tourist keep loudly bothering you.)

The Harrods bit is funny, though, and not one I realised before it got pointed out here. Another part of the realism thing is that I seriously considered where they'd buy groceries, where they'd get their hair cut and suits cleaned etc, so... Did they ever set foot in Harrods? Sebastian would hate the luxury departments, that's for sure, but I can see Jim walking around and maybe trying his hand at some shoplifting.

Hyde Park

Part of the realism thing was what with Sebastian being a physically fit guy in peak condition, he had to maintain that, so in my head he's basically every other day gone to run a marathon in Hyde Park and coming back sweaty and pink-cheeked and irresistible-to-Jim. Really enjoying the dog-cam pics :D It's a lot more wide-open than it was in my imagination, but honestly that fits even better.

Baker Street

I'm SO SAD they removed wax Moriarty!

For reference here is a picture of me and @scriblitula over ten years ago smooching our bae:

(I swear I didn't steal him.)

If we ever end up going back to London I will definitely have to go by Baker Street again for the giggles.

St Bart's

IIRC we basically bumped into St Bart's on accident last time we were there, which is funny because it's like. If you look for it you will not find it. If you don't look for it you will.

Green Park

Oh right I remember researching this one! Basically I had to find a place where believably a bunch of homeless kids would congregate, and a lil foray into Reddit (ugh) gave me Green Park Tube Station. It's specifically the last picture-entrance one I had in mind there. It's always nice when you end finding something that matches what you needed...

(Also in general, I'm very fond of the London Underground, mostly because it's just a massive beast and because its origin history- is insane, just one man going balls to the wall about it (hi Bazalgette). Also excellent for chase scenes, which I've used more than once! Try to slip out last-minute out of a crowded carriage and pretend you're Seb evading your tail.)

North Gower Street

I did not know about the filming location! I did know they weren't actually filming in Baker Street for obvious reasons, so that's where creative license set in and I couldn't really research which squat exactly Seb was hiding in to shoot a bunch of pillows with cardboard John. One of the very few I handwaved!

Canary Wharf

NGL I first learned about Canary Wharf when I was in my teens and very into Torchwood.

This was one of my biggest location puzzles, btw, along with the shopping centre/london stock exchange one. I was drawing a lot of lines trying to measure distances between tower blocks and going through a lot of luxury real estate websites to determine the near-impossible sniper shot on a hidden crime boss. Very pleased that I found something mildly plausible.

But yeah, I google street-view walked around a bit on the Isle of Dogs and it does look intimidating.

Shoreditch

Again, research time. I had a bit of trouble trying to decide where Sally, Molly and John lived, giving that London real estate prices are so insane. I had a bit of a look around at the most expensive-least expensive neighbourhoods and while it definitely isn't that cut and dry, Shoreditch seemed to work for Sally, not too expensive or luxurious and still within reasonable commute times from Scotland Yard.

Also the idea that she could've bumped into Seb moping around trying to get his foot back in with the criminal word...

(Taking note of the bagel place for personal reasons thanks)

Westminster

If hey I just drove past the shopping centre you blew up is my favourite comment, hey that's where my partner got his top surgery definitely is a close second. Again, mostly the result of going on google maps and finding the nearest hospital, then checking if it fits, but still. Fun coincidence.

Also seeing the Big Ben picture and imaging the Mycroft Holmes poster on there... I think I may have lowballed the dimensions of that poster tbh.

St Paul's & the Shopping centre.

The other big location puzzle. From the start it was going to be a shopping centre being blown up (maximum damage, maximum shock value) but as to which one... I had to reverse-engineer a Sherlock Holmes deduction based on a recording, then find out if there was anything close by that fitted the bill, and at this point I don't even remember how I got to the London Stock Exchange as the decoy. I do remember that at one point actually found a 100-view youtube view by the architectural studio who designed the building just to check out if you'd have a line of sight. Then the Wikipedia article which mentioned the vents, and I had enough to get by. Still very much stretching the believability, but the fact that it's based more-or-less on reality is satisfying enough for me.

(also randomly I was going like hmmm why does Paternoster Square feel so familiar? and then I remembered it's from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell).

Conduit Street

Conduit Street was in the running as a location for Jim's flat, before I changed it out to Knightbridge. So it did feel right going back to it for Seb's new flat. Although Conduit Street never gets mentioned (I think it's a lot of shops these days and less residential buildings?), he does explicitly live in Mayfair-again, house-hunting for the expensive neighbourhoods, and I do like the implicit connection to the OG canon.

The fact that it's also where the Westwood flagship store is, is almost too on the nose, you know?

Keystone Crescent

We stayed at a B&B in a crescent street one of the times we went to London, and I loved the idea of having this cosy quaint architectural thing as a front for the big spying reveal. To be honest I just googled crescent streets, came across Keystone Crescent, and picked it up; the fact that it's a little historical/tourist spot felt sort of fitting, in a way. All harmless at the front.

It looks cute IRL! Also since it's implied Mycroft moves his office there once he gets semi-sacked and semi-rehired from MI-6, so for everyone who's passionate about killing Mycroft dead post-Calvary/Duty of Care, that's where the line starts.

In conclusion

You cannot believe how happy this made me, with the amount of work you put in it! I'm awed, honestly. And insanely pleased, it's so nice to see how it all lines up and have the visual references. And the validation :3 (getting good grades at London!)

Now if only I can convince my wife and toddler when/if we go there on holiday to spend the day walking past all the real locations where I played with my fictional dolls...

[transmoriarty]

official diagnosis of getting a good grade at london x

[pasiphile]

for @bauliya, who wanted to know if Caro ever tried to address the abuse thing with Jim:

"So, why are you here?”

“I've got an injury. Disinfected it, but it still looks suspect.”

“Specify injury?”

“Bite.”

“Animal or human?”

“Human.”

“Dare I ask where?”

“Just my shoulder, don't worry.”

“Take it off, then.”

He shrugs off his jacket and starts unbuttoning his shirt, feeling her eyes on him.

But when he peels off the bandage and shows off the bite wound, she actually whistles.

“Shocked after all?” he asks, amused.

“It’s a good thing you told me it’s human, that’s all, otherwise I might have thought dog." She squints at the wound. "Never seen a human bite this deep before.”

“The human in question was very excited at that point.”

She glances up at him. “I’m assuming this was Sebastian?”

“It was.”

“Reassuring to see some of this is mutual.” She pulls at the skin of his shoulder, frowns. “Half of the time I’m not sure if his injuries are from a fight or from you.”

Jim watches her, the faint furrow between her eyebrows in concentration, the thinned mouth.

“He told me you screened him for abuse, the first time you saw him,” he says after a moment.

“I did. It’s your first relationship I’ve ever come in contact with and he had serious physical injuries, explicitly caused by you.”

“And what would you have done if he’d said yes?”

“Try to help him out. Besides, the fact that he said no doesn’t necessarily mean I believe him.”

“You think I’m abusing him.”

She straightens up and meets his eyes, very calm. “Aren’t you?”

“Define abuse.”

Her mouth tilts up in a joyless smile. “There’s grey areas. As long as he’s explicitly consenting—”

“He is.”

“I know he is, he made it very clear, and that’s good enough for me. At the moment.”

“Should I take that as a warning? A threat?”

“I’m just saying that just because it works right now, it doesn’t mean it’ll work forever. And once it starts deteriorating, things can go bad very very quickly.”

“I won’t let it come that far.”

“Won’t you.” She puts on a fresh compress, then gives his arm a pat and goes back to her desk. "You were right to come see me, it's infected. I'll prescribe you antibiotics, do take all of them, and if the swelling is still there in two days, come back."

"Caro."

She turns, eyebrows raised.

"Say what you're thinking."

"What I'm thinking?" She crosses her arms. "I'm thinking it might be beyond your control. Neither of you particularly know how to have a healthy relationship, and in the best case you'll work it out together, but in the worst..."

"What."

She sighs and grabs her prescription book. "I'm not a relationship counselor, Jim, and I don't want to pretend to be one. All I'm saying is—Look, just be aware of what you have in him. You've been doing a lot better since he moved in with you, haven't you?"

He stays silent.

"And this thing you've got going on, where you lead and he follows, it has it limits. So if you want to keep him, sooner or later you're going to need to make peace with the fact that he's allowed to have something of yours too, just like you get basically every fucking thing from him."

"You're right," he says, coolly. "You're really not a relationship counselor."

"Yeah, yeah, lash out, see if I bloody care." She hands him the prescription. "Like I said, as long as it works for both of you, I've no intention of getting involved."

"And if it doesn't?" He smiles. "Whose side will you be on? Given that we're both your patients, now. Does the one who goes back the longest get priority or—"

"It's not about sodding sides, Jim." She sighs and goes back to her desk, rubbing her forehead. "Go back home. And just… Don't forget you need him." She looks over her shoulder. "Assuming you're ready to admit that to yourself, that is."

"You really should stick to just the physical, Doctor."

"Always dualism with you, isn't it." She smiles at him, humourlessly. "Can't split the two, love. Now piss off, I've got other patients to see."

He keeps looking at her for a moment, her head bent, avoiding his eyes, and as fearless as her words were, there's something there, caution, almost fear…

Then he turns on his heel and marches out.

[thesadtadpole]

Me when the obviously doomed character doesn't get a happy ending

[dunmertitty]

[professor-pants]

Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive

[haljathefangirlcat]

#very capable of taking care of themselves very eager to take care of someone else#would kill a man for even slightly offending their partner

[null-233]

Ms. Moriarty & Ms. Moran

[transmoriarty]

caro after multiple attempts of trying to get through to seb that he was not responsible for jim’s death turning on the tv and seeing sherlock etc pointing & blaming him for not stopping jim & being good enough

[transmoriarty]

let’s go girls