Hi!!! I did a reread (and slight catch up) of this fic yesterday via PDF, and thought I'd drop you a line.
This is, hands down, one of my favorite forced genderswap fics of any fandom. You do an excellent job of balancing all the various character reactions, especially Clark. I love your varied explanations for all the characters reactions, too! Very IC, especially Lex. The reasoning behind Clark's psychological breakdown here is fascinating, and I never rally considered it before, but you're absolutely right, Clark WOULD have based a lot of his 'self' on being male, since he had so many of his pillars knocked down recently. He had even less to be sure about than the average teen, thanks to being an alien, poor kid.
One slight nitpick, In the tail end of chapter 21 you have Lex wonder about the male escort's name, thinking it might be Ben, then you kinda flip flop between 'Dorian' and 'Damian' in 22. I'm guessing the latter is a typo? :D The Ben thing just seemed a little OOC of Lex to me... Sure he might not get the name exactly right, but going from Ben to Dorian/Damian seems a bit strange. Most people, I've noticed, even if they get a person's name wrong tend to get the first letter correct. i.e. mistaking Annie for Amy. I just wondered about that.
Lastly, I wanted to tell you that this fic inspired a pretty cool dream last night. I finished Pink, not Kryptonite just before going to sleep, and my subconscious, for some unknown reason, decided to combine it with The Walking Dead. I figured I'd share it, since it was very cool. The kind of dream you sometimes have that has you replaying it in your head all day!
So Lex and Clark got stuck in L.A. when the zombie apocalypse broke out.
The airborne virus made Lex sick as his extra special immune system tried and eventually succeeded in getting rid of it, and Clark/Clara got to experience throwing up for the first time ever as Virus met Kryptonian DNA and hated each other on sight. Both Lex and Clark are eventually fine, and the two of them start making their way back to Smallville.
Along the way they collect other survivors, a bunch of whom are teenagers and children. Clark does a little running ahead to kinda scout the path, but refuses to leave the group for long. He and Lex kinda fight about that, but Clark still refuses to go more than a few miles ahead.
Eventually they made it back to Smallville, where the town is actually in better shape than pretty much anywhere else. Apparently medeor mutants and the zombie virus don't mix! There were some deaths, but the townspeople managed to get a wall up around most of the town after things got scary.
Once they get back there, Lex and Clark threw themselves into trying to figure out what the hell happened and how they can fix it. I woke up before they found a cure, or at least a vaccine, but I'm sure they would manage to. I should add that for some reason my mind cast Naomi Scott as female!Clark (best known for Maddy Shannon on Terra Nova).
Sorry if sharing that is a little weird, but it was an amazingly fun and detailed dream, and I figured why not! :DD
I have to extend my deepest thanks for commenting. I adore the ideas I've come up with in this fic and I am so grateful to hear that it is touching others.
That's a definite woops on the name issue. Need to go back and fix that sometime. I'm sure it was me not rereading carefully enough between chapters... or scenes.
I adore your dream. You should write that. It'd be an interesting story.
As for the casting choice... I struggle with casting anyone because to my mind he is basically still Clark, kind of Tom Welling in drag with slightly lighter bone structure. Having him become someone more delicate and completely 'female' was one of the tropes of genderswap I wanted to avoid. But Naomi Scott is a nice choice.
Comment on Pink, Not Kryptonite
Saj_te_Gyuhyall on Chapter 22 Thu 26 Feb 2015 07:04PM UTC
Comment Actions
Triskellion on Chapter 22 Mon 09 Mar 2015 12:30AM UTC
Comment Actions