Snowflake day 10

[obstinatecondolement]

Challenge #10

In your own space, create a fanwork.

So this came at a fortuitous time, because I just had the idea for this fic yesterday. It was going to be for an exchange, but then it edged a bit too close to one of the DNWs, in spirit if nothing else, i.e. if someone DNWed daddy kink, I felt it would be a dick move to write them mommy kink. I guess I could have emailed the mods to double check, because there are certainly people who are squicked by the former but not the latter, and vice versa, but I had another idea so I thought I'd just go with that. I still really liked this idea though, so I planned to write it eventually. Which turned out to be sooner than I thought!

Title: A Quite Complex Complex
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Fandom: Succession (TV 2018)
Relationship: Gerri Kellman/Roman "Romulus" Roy
Characters: Gerri Kellman, Roman "Romulus" Roy
Additional Tags: POV Roman "Romulus" Roy, Roman "Romulus" Roy Has a Mommy Kink, Bad Decisions, Kink Negotiation, (not presented in a best practices light lol), Phone Sex, Gerri Kellman Does Not Have an Orgasm, set in a nebulous pre-texting incident canon divergent au, where they communicated boundaries to each other SLIGHTLY better.
Language: English
Published: 2023-01-19
Words: 1476
Chapters: 1/1

Summary: Roman sends Gerri a Mother's Day card As A Joke™ because this is how mature adults drop hints that they want to try certain kinks.

Read at AO3

Comments

[kavyina]

I'm unfamiliar with the fandom, but this is great! Love your descriptions of movement (is that a weird thing to compliment? Idk, maybe it is) because it's so easy to make character movements awkward and jarring. You do it well! I'm thinking of a specific example but am unsure if it's okay to quote you here.

[obstinatecondolement]

I'm delighted that you liked it even without being familiar with the fandom. I'm also really glad that you liked the descriptions, because I tend to think of myself as being Good at dialogue and Bad at everything else, lol. It's totally okay to quote me here! The fic isn't archive locked, so I don't have any reservations about it being quoted outside AO3.

[kavyina]

I'm specifically thinking of, "... shifting her weight to her other hip and then back again, like a nervous little pony."

I love that line. It's great.

[obstinatecondolement]

Thank you! I really enjoyed writing that line. I was really consciously trying to infuse my descriptive prose with character voice, because I struggle with description but I'm pretty good at character voice.

[royalblue31]

I really enjoyed your fic! I especially liked how you played with Roman and Gerri's dynamic.

[obstinatecondolement]

Thank you so much! It's a very fun dynamic to play with.