Augh! This is *fantastic*! (Yeah, I don't think I've said that enough...)
I remember that one point in the comics where Beast tells Emma not to mess with Scott/Jean. ('It's undignified. And Jean will kill you.') Yeah, pretty much.
Jean ripped her apart. If Emma’s power was a diamond-tipped scalpel, Jean’s was a flaming broadsword. She peeled open her sealed places, shredded the latticework that locked back unruly emotions, and pillaged her memories for sins and shame. The rawness and horror Emma kept locked inside spilled out, and the phoenix danced in the charred wreckage of her mind.
This is spectacular; Emma's (your) metaphors for their respective powers are perfect and I love your earlier differentiation between their levels of experience. Emma's precise training vs. the explosive, chaotic destruction of the Phoenix.
The brutal insight into how Emma got that training is vivid, stark, and I love you for it. Her reaction to Scott's gaze, her conception of gazes, her self-loathing, her fatalism. It's all so crisply realized. I adore adore adore the way you're slowly peeling back her layers and laying her past bare.
YES to your descriptions of the team in the face of a new, gruesome case. JJ, Reid. Spot on. Damaged!Headstrong!Emily purposefully partnering with Action!Morgan = win, even when it hurts.
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I remember that one point in the comics where Beast tells Emma not to mess with Scott/Jean. ('It's undignified. And Jean will kill you.') Yeah, pretty much.
Jean ripped her apart. If Emma’s power was a diamond-tipped scalpel, Jean’s was a flaming broadsword. She peeled open her sealed places, shredded the latticework that locked back unruly emotions, and pillaged her memories for sins and shame. The rawness and horror Emma kept locked inside spilled out, and the phoenix danced in the charred wreckage of her mind.
This is spectacular; Emma's (your) metaphors for their respective powers are perfect and I love your earlier differentiation between their levels of experience. Emma's precise training vs. the explosive, chaotic destruction of the Phoenix.
The brutal insight into how Emma got that training is vivid, stark, and I love you for it. Her reaction to Scott's gaze, her conception of gazes, her self-loathing, her fatalism. It's all so crisply realized. I adore adore adore the way you're slowly peeling back her layers and laying her past bare.
YES to your descriptions of the team in the face of a new, gruesome case. JJ, Reid. Spot on. Damaged!Headstrong!Emily purposefully partnering with Action!Morgan = win, even when it hurts.
Oh. EMILY. *sags*
(Oh... Emma...)