extremely random ficlet
Jan. 16th, 2004 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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msilverstar! Yay! And for you...
Billy doesn't fit in the lens of a camera.
Viggo is a perfectionist. He takes photographs all the time, glossy portraits of the way things were, catching just the right moment of transformation from one thought to the next as though the subject were merely in a frame of suspended animation but might keep right on going any second now. Frozen, living, breathing images.
He can capture Dominic in a moment of rare stillness, mischievous smile just starting to creep across his face as he plots his next nefarious scheme. Orlando in a moment of becoming Legolas, the subtle transformation from actor to character. Elijah in a moment of surprised reflex, halfway between shock and response.
But how could he capture Billy? Which moment should he choose, when the changes flicker through him lightning quick, and by the time Viggo sees the one he wants, it's already gone?
Billy is Dominic's mischievousness and Orlando's transformation and Elijah's responses all in one, and crow's feet around deceptively youthful eyes, and dry wit in a raised eyebrow, and painstakingly calculated wholehearted laughs, and a thousand other contradictions that make perfect sense when you look at them from the right angle.
Viggo spent months trying to find the right angle, but all he has to show for it is a messy pile of imperfect snapshots, always a second too early or too late.
Once, only once, did Viggo catch Billy. Slick skin and pert lips, pale body and laughing eyes, and Viggo whispered wait and Billy turned his head just so, smooth muscles and quirky smile and yes.
Dominic and Orlando and Elijah can see their photographs in art books and exhibits, but Billy's picture is private, hidden and smiling and perfect.
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Dude. This is so not my pairing. It has VIGGO innit. And yet, surprisingly fun to write...
msilverstar! Yay! And for you... Billy doesn't fit in the lens of a camera.
Viggo is a perfectionist. He takes photographs all the time, glossy portraits of the way things were, catching just the right moment of transformation from one thought to the next as though the subject were merely in a frame of suspended animation but might keep right on going any second now. Frozen, living, breathing images.
He can capture Dominic in a moment of rare stillness, mischievous smile just starting to creep across his face as he plots his next nefarious scheme. Orlando in a moment of becoming Legolas, the subtle transformation from actor to character. Elijah in a moment of surprised reflex, halfway between shock and response.
But how could he capture Billy? Which moment should he choose, when the changes flicker through him lightning quick, and by the time Viggo sees the one he wants, it's already gone?
Billy is Dominic's mischievousness and Orlando's transformation and Elijah's responses all in one, and crow's feet around deceptively youthful eyes, and dry wit in a raised eyebrow, and painstakingly calculated wholehearted laughs, and a thousand other contradictions that make perfect sense when you look at them from the right angle.
Viggo spent months trying to find the right angle, but all he has to show for it is a messy pile of imperfect snapshots, always a second too early or too late.
Once, only once, did Viggo catch Billy. Slick skin and pert lips, pale body and laughing eyes, and Viggo whispered wait and Billy turned his head just so, smooth muscles and quirky smile and yes.
Dominic and Orlando and Elijah can see their photographs in art books and exhibits, but Billy's picture is private, hidden and smiling and perfect.
*
Dude. This is so not my pairing. It has VIGGO innit. And yet, surprisingly fun to write...
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Date: 2004-01-16 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 07:49 pm (UTC)very ot
Date: 2004-01-16 06:29 pm (UTC)the elijah one that says "the ring is mine bitch"
and the domlijah one that says "what do you mean, no sex?"
Re: very ot
Date: 2004-01-18 07:50 pm (UTC)Re: very ot
Date: 2004-01-18 07:51 pm (UTC)*shrugs*
i credited you
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-01-17 03:27 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2004-01-18 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-17 08:01 am (UTC)My browser crashed and I lost track of this but I found it again :-)
You did a great job, Viggo's voice is lovely and I'm all about trying new pairings, yanno?
I just adore the images in this story, and the flow of the words, especially: a thousand other contradictions that make perfect sense when you look at them from the right angle. Thank you!
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Date: 2010-01-30 07:49 pm (UTC)I love what this says - like how difficult it might be to capture the one you´re the closest to - it´s not an object anymore perhaps... *gets completely lost in philosophic!mode* Never mind me. It was fabulous!! And artistic!Viggo *flutters* (And look what you´ve done, I´m completely going to have to think about this some more..) *snork*