I was just about to write,

[hmpf]

in a comment on a fic, that what I enjoy in angst (and some h/c) is not the breaking of a character but the character's fighting back against his or her breaking.

And realised, that makes me Methos in this fic.

*is creeped out by self*

ETA: Specifically, this describes how I choose my objects of obsession:

(s)he never chooses those who are broken easily

Comments

[mikes-grrl.livejournal.com]

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*

[fenlings]

Hmm, interesting. I think for me it's more the hidden angst. Breaking inwardly but not letting it show.

[lferion]

*Nods and shivers right along with you*

I also like the character dealing with _having been broken anyway_