All joking aside, this fic is dark. Extremely dark. Pitch-black. And yet it's also one of the best things I've read and one of maybe two fanfics that I recommend to everyone (everyone I think can handle it, at least). It belongs to that rare better class of Dark Fic and manages to keep the horror that belongs to that genre and the smut that a prison fic entails while still leaving room for the kind of character development and plot every story needs.
In the realm of other story functions, the author(s) is extraordinarily talented with more common storytelling devices—the Love Triangle, for instance, keeps you guessing the whole way (and eighty-some chapters in it still isn't clear who's going to end up with who) and every character is well-written and engaging, keeping their core personality while still fully exploring every ramifications of this kind of contextual reassignment.
This fic is well worth everyone's time as long as they can handle the sort of High Octane Nightmare Fuel it entails and probably should be required reading for the more mature members of the fandom as well as anyone who wants to write a full contextual reassignment.
Just...wow.
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading something else.
All joking aside, this fic is dark. Extremely dark. Pitch-black. And yet it's also one of the best things I've read and one of maybe two fanfics that I recommend to everyone (everyone I think can handle it, at least). It belongs to that rare better class of Dark Fic and manages to keep the horror that belongs to that genre and the smut that a prison fic entails while still leaving room for the kind of character development and plot every story needs.
In the realm of other story functions, the author(s) is extraordinarily talented with more common storytelling devices—the Love Triangle, for instance, keeps you guessing the whole way (and eighty-some chapters in it still isn't clear who's going to end up with who) and every character is well-written and engaging, keeping their core personality while still fully exploring every ramifications of this kind of contextual reassignment.
This fic is well worth everyone's time as long as they can handle the sort of High Octane Nightmare Fuel it entails and probably should be required reading for the more mature members of the fandom as well as anyone who wants to write a full contextual reassignment.