and I'm afraid I won't get out alive

[angelgazing]

You guys, I cannot stop listening to this version of Animal by Neon Trees. I have listened to various forms of this song all day. It has lead to... well, mostly it's led to me, you know, telling gyzym all the things I would do with a werewolf Arthur story.

So! A poll lacking in specificity!

[Poll #1632163]


Fiiine.
ME IN AIM CHAT WINDOW:

BECAUSE EAMES KNOWS THERE'S SOMETHING MORE THERE
SOMETHING SO VERY WRONG
HE FINDS OUT A FEW MONTHS IN, WHEN ARTHUR SHOVES HIM AWAY SO, SO VIOLENTLY, AND TELLS HIM, SNARLS IT, THAT HE'S DANGEROUS, HE'S UNCONTROLLABLE, HE'S SOMETHING EAMES SHOULD FEAR
BUT THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN TRUE FOR EAMES. EAMES HAS BEEN AFRAID OF ARTHUR SINCE DAY ONE
JUST NOT FOR ANY OF THE REASONS HE SHOULD BE
AND HE WATCHES OLD MONSTER MOVIES THAT NIGHT
THE ONLY LIGHT COMING IN FROM THE FULL MOON OUTSIDE AND THE FLICKERING OF THE SCREEN
HIS HAND WRAPPED AROUND HIMSELF, HIS HEELS SKIDDING, PRESSING HIS SHOULDER HARDER AND HARDER INTO THE MATTRESS JUST TO FEEL THE HURT OF IT AS THE WOLF HOWLS ON THE SCREEN
AND IT'S ECHOED OUTSIDE
AND IT'S JUST ONE MORE IMPROBABLE THING ABOUT ARTHUR
ONE MORE PART OF HIM FOR EAMES TO TRY AND TOUCH

Comments

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

Well, like, is Arthur the way he is because he is tightly controlling the rage that comes with his nature? Or is he naturally a quiet, orderly person, who just happens to change at full moon into a ravening beast? Idk that either is necessarily the wrong answer, per se, it would just depend on the quality of the writing and the way the writer fit Arthur into the situation.

[angelgazing.livejournal.com]

Well, it'd be sort of a bit of both, I think. Arthur is naturally a quiet, orderly person, and that's what makes him crazy about this. He has to try so hard to keep that order, to keep that control because it's not just the rage, it's everything. It's rage, and lust, and the need to claim, and some days, Arthur's just shaking with how tightly he's got himself strung just trying to keep it all in.

And it's Eames, wanting all of it.