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Title:
Sex, Lies and Photographs
Fandom: Heroes
Pairing:
Mohinder/Sylar
Categories: 
Preslash, Angst
Length: 
Medium (barely)
Warnings: mentions of a suicide attempt for a major character

Author on LJ:
[livejournal.com profile] perdiccas
Website:
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Author’s Summary: Surrounded by Zane Taylor's personal effects, Sylar is forced to construct a life of lies to placate Mohinder's curiosity.
Review:

This is a “pretending to be gay” fic, but don’t for a moment think that it’s the same old cliché. No one admits, maybe, just maybe that they are gay, and the boy doesn’t get the boy at the end. And normally, I’d balk at the mention of an ambigulously unhappy ending, but this fic has one thing going for it that kept me going: Sylar lying and taking on a new persona to hide his true self. This is a really interesting concept to explore in fic that people don’t do that much. [livejournal.com profile] perdiccas handles it especially well, and makes Sylar into the manipulative and violent sociopath that I know and love. I disagree a bit with her characterization of Mohinder in this fic, but it’s not really important in the grand scheme of the fic.

Sex, Lies and Photographs

Comments

[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 14th, 2009 11:32 pm (UTC)
Great review! Just, um, how dark is the fic, because this pairing seems like it would be pretty grim. And I am a wuss:)

Thanks!
[identity profile] lolitakun.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 15th, 2009 12:08 am (UTC)
It's not actually all that dark, for a fic with a serial-killer!POV. It's an AU of the first season, so there is a little murder and dark imagery, but overall it's about two guys on a road-trip together, so it's mostly them talking to each other and becoming friends. The only thing that I'd really be concerned about is the general f*ed-upedness of Sylar's inner dialouge, but it's not 'blood death violence' 24/7, just misanthropic.
[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 15th, 2009 12:12 am (UTC)
"It's not actually all that dark, for a fic with a serial-killer!POV."

I love fandom:)
[identity profile] lolitakun.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 15th, 2009 12:15 am (UTC)
Seconded :)

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