"Dear John" Letter

[greyias]

Dear John Sheppard,

Please stop being so emotionally repressed. It gives me the fits trying to keep you in character while trying to communicate something. BECAUSE YOU DON'T COMMUNICATE.

AJLSRGHOUHSGF!

Okay, I might feel a little better now.

Plz emote more. Kthnx.

<3

Grey

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

LOL!! And the icon sooo fits!!

It's something I struggle with as well (and I know that some of my stories have him too emotive at times (especially earlier ones) - it's very hard to keep him in line with canon!!).

Ah well, hope you feel better after sending him a Dear John letter. It doesn't look like he's taking much notice though! See his reply:

Dear Greyias

I do so communicate! It's not my fault if you can't capture my facial expressions for your readers so that they can read between my lines. I emote plenty enough for a manly man.

John Sheppard

PS - No more whump, please. I need a break (and I don't mean a broken bone, right). Whump Kavanagh instead. If anyone deserved some whumping it is him. Or maybe IOA guy.

[leesa_perrie]

Agh, that should be 'Or maybe that IOA guy'!!!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Haha, in retrospect I should've used my "angst" icon, although I was feeling very spiteful at the time. And I hear ya. I swear that man is regressing as time goes on, or I'm just now getting that he's so incredibly emotionally repressed. Although I have to say, I don't think anything I've read of yours ever struck me as him being too emotive.

Now, as for Mr. Sheppard, I feel compelled to reply to his reply:

Dear John,

I would love to write your silent, brooding man angst. However there's only so many times you can furrow or raise an eyebrow before they waggle off your face! If you purse your lips in one paragraph, I have to wait at least ten pages before you can do that action again, otherwise I start to wear the phrase out. You have to understand how much hair I've torn out in the past week because of your simple inability to talk.

Would it kill you to write a little poem, shed a tiny tear on screen, just to make my life easier?

♥

Grey

P.S. - You were not the whumpee in the story, which is part of the problem. If you were on pain meds I might be able to get away with you getting a little talkative. Why must you torture me so?

[leesa_perrie]

LOL! Love your reply! Here's Rodney's:

Dear Greyias

I have recently become aware of your correspondence with Colonel Sheppard, and really, what do you want from the man? He is as he is and that's all there is to!!

Next, you'll be wanting him to give his team members a manly hug. Ugh, that one Ronon gave me - in public - was bad enough without the Colonel getting in on the act.

As for writing poetry? What drugs are you on?! Not Wraith enzyme, I hope, though you do sound crazy enough for that. Trust me, it isn't worth it. Really. It just isn't.

Also, if Sheppard is not the whumpee in this story, then who is? Wait, no, I think I'd rather not know, especially if you have chosen to torment me this time. And just what is it with you writers and all the whump? Can you not refrain from it and write simple *pain free* action stories? Or humour even?

Really, this is getting ridiculous. I even have it on good authority that certain so called 'fans' have pleaded with a certain Joe Mallozzi for more Sheppard and, to my utter dismay, McKay whump for the next season. Has there not been enough these last four?!!

Yours in despair,

Dr M Rodney McKay, Ph.D, Ph.D, etc and so on.

[greyias.livejournal.com]

EL-EHM-AY-OH! Oh, Rodney, Rodney, Rodney...

Dearest Rodney,

You really shouldn't read other people's mail. It's an invasion of privacy. What John and I correspond about is purely our own business.

As for what I want from the man, just some material to work with! I actually wouldn't mind that hug you mentioned. I mean, I'm not saying he has to grope his teammates or anything, just an affectionate pat on the shoulder, you know? Besides, Ronon's hugs are adorable, everyone should join him in his freedom of expression. It's a sad day when the former fugitive is the one most in touch with his feelings.

As for drugs, I am high on life. Because seriously, is there anything trippier than reality? I think not.

As for the whump... sadly, that I am addicted to. Be assured though I would never (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3127214/1/Nepenthes_Kiss) whump (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2540127/1/Breakdown) you (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2619398/1/Rough_Landings). Really (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3866051/1/The_Night_of_the_Tentacle).

Please be assured, this is a matter that should be worked out between the Colonel and I. We need no buttinskis.

Not whumping you,

Greyias

[leesa_perrie]

ROTFL!!! Well, I think you've beaten me - I don't think I can top this one!!!!

Snerk! You tell him, girl!

And of course you never whump him *cough*!

[greyias.livejournal.com]

Darn, it was starting to get really fun. Perhaps there was a bit of citrus in that last reply without me realizing it ;)

And I would never do anything to my Rodney on purpose... (unless I meant it).

Just trying to clean up that final scene to tie it together before sending it off to the beta. *le sigh* Sadly, I'm not sure the six month long okay, maybe a week or so perhaps a forty-eight hour period week-long angst over the whole sentiment of the story will come across.

But no, I would never ever whump Rodney without his express permission.