Needs Met, page 08

[erinptah]

Title: Needs Met, page 08
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: c!Stephen/Jon, l!Stephen/Jon
Disclaimer: This is a work of parody. Although reference is made to real persons, the dialogue, actions, and content are products of the artist's imagination only.

Those of you who have been waiting for l!Stephen to let out some of his anger...I think you're gonna like this one.

There's also a bit of bonus l!Stephen art over here, and some Liberalverse sketches here.




Also here on DA, with links to the rest.

Comments

[aybara-max.livejournal.com]

Standing ovation for l!Stephen, the heroic protector ^_^ The Jons are still being jerks...I'm interested to see if they will be able to properly atone left to their own devices since they were the ones who came up with the original bad idea. I would have expected them to clue in by now, but maybe it took Stephen's blow up to instigate that...

[shoebox_addict]

WOW! Let's hear it for liberal Stephen! Now what on earth is going to happen when he goes in that room...?

[gaiafaye.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo, l!Stephen verbally kicks ass! I hope he can console his counterpart.

[erinptah]

On the other hand, c!verse Jon would have a hard time atoning if his Stephen refused all contact, and l!verse Jon would have similar problems if his Stephen kept acting like there was nothing to atone for in the first place.

So they're on the right path. It's just a bumpy one. (On which l!Stephen's blowup is a key turning point.)

[erinptah]

Ohhh, if anyone here guesses that, I will shower them with e-cookies :D

[shoebox_addict]

Well...my mind immediately leaped to...conservative Stephen wanting to, erm, experiment with liberal Stephen..

[erinptah]

Gonna need a couple of strips' worth of consolation, all right. On both sides.

[sarcasticsra]

Yay, go l!Stephen. YOU TELL THEM, STEPHENS. YOU TELL THEM.

*looks forward to the Stephens talking*

P.S. Looks like your page numbers are a bit...confused? =P

[sirdrakesheir.livejournal.com]

TOENAIL POLISH

AND


LIFETIME MOVIES


I DON'T KNOW IT'S WORTH A SHOT

[sirdrakesheir.livejournal.com]

DDD:

I WORRY


ALSO


WAIT

IF THESE STEPHENS ARE THE SAME PERSON MORE OR LESS DOES THAT NOT MEAN THAT THEY EACH ARE FEELING/THRINKING WHAT THE OTHER IS EXPRESSING

IN WHICH CASE ;_; FOREVER

AND I WANT TO SNUGGLE THEM BOTH

IDK THEY NEED SNUGGLING BUT I KIND OF FEEL THAT THE JONS HAVE LOST THE RIGHT TO EVER DO THAT AGAIN IT'S SUCH A PREDICATMENT


ALSO LOL HOW WEIRD IS IT THAT OUT OF EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER CREATED THIS IS THE ONE THAT MAKES ME DDDDDD: THE MOST

like really


this one

really?


really?

[sirdrakesheir.livejournal.com]

COOL ICON MON FRERE

[sarcasticsra]

THANKS I THOUGHT IT WAS APPROPRIATE.

[zekris.livejournal.com]

My guess is that the Stephens switch clothes...and facial hair somehow I guess I dunno...and show the Jons how it feels to be betrayed. Or something.

Does what they're going to do involve devious plotting at least? Devious plotting is always good.

[seagullsong.livejournal.com]

IAWTC

[erinptah]

Looking at your icon...I had somehow forgotten that l!Stephen didn't have a full-face beard. Huh.

They get two and a half strips' worth of interaction, so you're in luck =)


Stupid page numbers. Fixed!

[erinptah]

Yeah, that would be more of an option if l!Stephen didn't have the whole beard to deal with...and of course if he and c!Stephen were capable of coming across as each other for more than five minutes at a time ^_^;

Stick around...

[erinptah]

Yyyep. Both Stephens have more or less the same tangled mass of emotion going on underneath it all.

Snuggling is definitely called for! /blatant hint

[sarcasticsra]

Maybe he grew it out. =P

They're still confused. This is page 8. =P

[jmie.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love that l!Stephen has learned enough about himself or what's healthy that he can spout what's right and good about boundaries. And while he's not sticking up for himself, he's sticking up for that mirror-image of himself, which is almost as good.

Love for the really shocked and then authoritative look on Stephen's face afterward. Each installment always has men looking forward to the next. :)

[erinptah]

Okay, NOW they're fixed. Gah.

[sarcasticsra]

Page numbers can be tricky little buggers. =P

[erinptah]

He actually has pretty good instincts about what's healthy for other people. He just needs to trust them...or be pushed so far that they burst out before he can tie himself in knots with overthinking.

Each installment always has men looking forward to the next.

Lol, Freudian typo? XD

[aybara-max.livejournal.com]

THE JONS HAVE LOST THE RIGHT TO EVER DO THAT AGAIN THISSS

I feel the same way, about this causing the most DDDDD: ever, mostly because of the dub-con NON-CON and making me MAD AS HELL at Jon(s), which happens practically never.

It's still awesome though :D

[nelleellen.livejournal.com]

Whoo-hoo!!! That outburst was the verbal equivalent of my l!Stephen-with-gun thought. I see the Stephens having a good breakdown together, then a strategy session, as they figure out what the consequences should be for the Jons. Kudos if the consequences involved are consistent across the universes. :)

[jmie.livejournal.com]

Lol, Freudian typo? XD

*headdesk/lol*

Wow, I don't even remember typing that extra letter or what I was thinking about around then. I couldn't even tell you. XD

[seagullsong.livejournal.com]

Um...Conservative!Stephen is actually irrationally angry at liberal!Stephen for stealing his Jon. Terrible angsty things happen.

Nah, you wouldn't go there. I vote for the fingernail polish and lifetime movies, I guess.

[secretpianist.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love the balancing act - one Jon begging l!Stephen to be angry with him and the other telling c!Stephen not to be (and seriously, why is this Jon so clueless? Telling c!Stephen he's being unreasonable??)

And LOL at the end with *both* Jons calling l!Stephen 'sir'. That's not a hint, is it?

We can has happy!liberalverse soon? I need it after this! :)

[inspirine.livejournal.com]

Another high-five to l!Stephen for telling off Jon. And I love all of their facial expressions when it happened.

Maybe it's just me but Jon doesn't seem to quite understand the seriousness of the situation. I know c!Stephen's reaction is somewhat adolescent but I would hardly call it unreasonable. He needs some time.

[greenpixiehair.livejournal.com]

I wanna hug l!Stephen very hard right now :P

[erinptah]

And with fewer people getting shot, too!

That is...remarkably close =D

[erinptah]

It's not so much "stop being angry" as "don't shut me out completely." And it would probably help if c!Stephen didn't have the same reaction to everything, up to and including "Jon will not apologize to Geraldo"...

L!Stephen is taking charge of the situation. This is a Good Thing. And it's the instant validation from the people around him that gives him the confidence to keep it up.

This one will work around to happy things eventually!

[erinptah]

In fairness, TCR has in the past involved c!Stephen firing a gun into his audience and locking a man under his desk for two years. So there's kind of a sliding scale of criminality going on, here...

[southerngaelic.livejournal.com]

YEAH. GO HIPPIE!STEPHEN. YOU TELL THOSE MORONS WHAT'S UP. FUCK YES.

[aybara-max.livejournal.com]

sliding scale of criminality I know, in his world c!Stephen has done so many downright crazy irrational dangerous things... this just gets under my skin because a) anything involving sex and taking away the option of consent particularly makes me DDDDD:, and b) I'm not used to Jon making the bad decisions.

[wishflower4.livejournal.com]

I love love love how hippie Stephen won't stand up for himself, but when it comes to standing up for someone else (er...some other version of himself?) he's all kickass and empowered.

Also his shocked look after telling Jon off was pretty cute.

[erinptah]

I think Jon just really doesn't know how to cope when he's not the one protecting c!Stephen.

Lucky for all of them, l!Stephen is around to pick up the slack.

[erinptah]

Awesome :D

[erinptah]

Hear hear!

[erinptah]

It's a step in the right direction!

Even if he's not quite sure what to do with himself afterwards =)

[nelleellen.livejournal.com]

Hee.