Chess, Four O'Clock

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Before I begin, let me state a warning, namely that because of the peculiarities of my fandom (set in a prison, lots of central characters are related) certain dark materials from violence to incest are more the norm than the exception. My focus with these reviews is gen, slash, het in that order, I'll be having reviews from all these categories. Lets start with some Gen. I'm also prone of slightly odd interpretations of the prompts.

Claim: Prison Break: General Series
Title: Chess
Author: slashasylum
Characters: Michael Scofield, Fernando Sucre
Prompt: 21. Epiphany
Rating: G
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Sucre comes to a startling realization about the escape and their exact place in it. Particularly spot on characterization, dealing with a very real problem for all these characters, using the perfect metaphor and the last mental image is just unsettling in its accuracy.

"Ai, no!" he'd say "Your guy got killed, grandpa."

"Don't you worry about those little guys, Fernando. They don't matter. Only the king matters," The old man touched the king with his bony finger. "When the king dies, the game is over."

Sucre didn't think much of the king. The king could hardly move. He was always guarded, penned in. A line of pieces was set up all around to go down for him. The queen was the one to watch out for. The one who could do anything, go anywhere. But the queen did it all for the king. If he went down, if he got tipped over by one of those bony hands, it was all over.

Link to the story: Chess


Claim: Prison Break: General Series
Title: Four O’Clock
Author: princessdoe
Characters: John Abruzzi, Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: PG13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: John Abruzzi and Theodore Bagwell, the mafia boss and the serial predator have a talk and T-Bag want Abruzzi to know just who exactly is in the same boat here. The character voices are magical, the characterisation, quite a feat if you consider that these two probably have the most unique speech patterns on the whole show, is spot on and as far as I’m concerned you can almost cut the tension (sexual or otherwise, this is T-Bag we are talking about after all) with a knife.

"Scofield shot in the air. Sucre's gun wasn't loaded. Do you really think you can count on them to do what needs to be done? Those boys are serving catnaps, five years, ten years. Not like me, with life and a day, and not like you, with your hundred and nineteen years. You're doing Buck Rogers time and the state will see me dead in my cold, cold grave before I ever taste daylight again. Tell me again, who do you think you have the most in common with on this crew, John?"

Link to the story: Four O’Clock

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