I hope you don't mind I didn't read the fic, as I don't know the characters, but...
...but the character's fighting back against his or her breaking.
This, I get. I think that is one reason I tend to shy from most h/c, because so little of it deals with the trauma involved in being broken, I mean in the sense that the character does NOT want to break, and fights it; so often the characters are shown just wallowing in the breakage (one huge problem I have with a good deal of the h/c fic in Life on Mars - Sam is so often shown just weeping in misery. ack!). And to extend that: me personally? I'm much more interested in the 'after' than the 'during'.
(To speak metaphorically, I'm less interested in the mechanics of the car accident or the immediate damages than I am in what the character must deal with a week later.)
So few fics really go there, though. *unhappy sigh*
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...but the character's fighting back against his or her breaking.
This, I get. I think that is one reason I tend to shy from most h/c, because so little of it deals with the trauma involved in being broken, I mean in the sense that the character does NOT want to break, and fights it; so often the characters are shown just wallowing in the breakage (one huge problem I have with a good deal of the h/c fic in Life on Mars - Sam is so often shown just weeping in misery. ack!). And to extend that: me personally? I'm much more interested in the 'after' than the 'during'.
(To speak metaphorically, I'm less interested in the mechanics of the car accident or the immediate damages than I am in what the character must deal with a week later.)
So few fics really go there, though. *unhappy sigh*