Triad, The Man in the High Castle (TV)
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derwent_fTitle: Triad
Fandom: The Man in the High Castle (TV)
Characters: Ed McCarthy
Rating: G
Warnings: Period Typical Attitudes, Racist slur against the Japanese
Summary: Ed (and Frank and Juliana). Based on Season 2 Episodes 7 and 9.
Now
“You’re growing on me too, Bob,” Ed says. Because yes, Childan is insufferably pompous most of the time, but you can’t help being amused by how ridiculous he is.
“What’s that word mean?” He knows ai means love, heard it countless times in Pon’s pop songs playing on the radio, in the streets, in the shops, in the bus, every-fucking-where.
Childan’s answer hits him like a Kempetai punch. “Unequal,” he says, and as if it’s not enough, he goes on, “When are you going to step out of your friend’s shadow and spread your wings?”
All friendliness Ed feels towards Childan disappears. His words make Ed’s skin prickle. They lure out something dangerous inside of him that he doesn’t care, doesn’t want to face. Not now, maybe not ever.
He snaps, “Me and Frank take care of each other.”
Then
“Well, we’ve got that in common.” She smiled, and it was true. Then she told him, who was a stranger until a few minutes ago, of her despair, for no other reason than that shared thing.
Ed watched as she drank the beer he proffered; the happiness and gratitude still slightly tinged with melancholy in her eyes. And then she smiled at him, again, and suddenly Ed stepped off a precipice and fell.
He’d prepared himself to like Juliana for how happy she made Frank. He hadn’t expected to like Juliana for Juliana.
Now
“Has there ever been anyone special? Aside from Mr. Frink, of course.”
Ed’s too exhilarated from getting out of the whole Yakuza business alive and too high from the joint. He can’t bring himself to be angry about the insinuation. Land-o-smiles, indeed.
He thinks back to their first meeting. To the three of them and the toast. “There was.”
“She just had to go away.”
Fandom: The Man in the High Castle (TV)
Characters: Ed McCarthy
Rating: G
Warnings: Period Typical Attitudes, Racist slur against the Japanese
Summary: Ed (and Frank and Juliana). Based on Season 2 Episodes 7 and 9.
Now
“You’re growing on me too, Bob,” Ed says. Because yes, Childan is insufferably pompous most of the time, but you can’t help being amused by how ridiculous he is.
“What’s that word mean?” He knows ai means love, heard it countless times in Pon’s pop songs playing on the radio, in the streets, in the shops, in the bus, every-fucking-where.
Childan’s answer hits him like a Kempetai punch. “Unequal,” he says, and as if it’s not enough, he goes on, “When are you going to step out of your friend’s shadow and spread your wings?”
All friendliness Ed feels towards Childan disappears. His words make Ed’s skin prickle. They lure out something dangerous inside of him that he doesn’t care, doesn’t want to face. Not now, maybe not ever.
He snaps, “Me and Frank take care of each other.”
Then
“Well, we’ve got that in common.” She smiled, and it was true. Then she told him, who was a stranger until a few minutes ago, of her despair, for no other reason than that shared thing.
Ed watched as she drank the beer he proffered; the happiness and gratitude still slightly tinged with melancholy in her eyes. And then she smiled at him, again, and suddenly Ed stepped off a precipice and fell.
He’d prepared himself to like Juliana for how happy she made Frank. He hadn’t expected to like Juliana for Juliana.
Now
“Has there ever been anyone special? Aside from Mr. Frink, of course.”
Ed’s too exhilarated from getting out of the whole Yakuza business alive and too high from the joint. He can’t bring himself to be angry about the insinuation. Land-o-smiles, indeed.
He thinks back to their first meeting. To the three of them and the toast. “There was.”
“She just had to go away.”
