I think so. The fashionable quality of charm and wit and repartee - the form-fitting clothes, and the 'period military' - suits him very well. This makes me want to picture Captain Jack on a horse. He's more of a high-tech guy as we see him, but especially in his "Torchwood" mode I think he'd do well as a Regency gent - including the arrogance and the vanity. (I mean this in the nicest way!)
Alternately he could be a salt-of-the-earth lower class kind of guy, like Weaver in "Precious Bane", smarter and more heroic than the indolent (or absent) landowners....
Fits a lot of heroic patterns, doesn't he?
The story I read that slashed him with Byron didn't, to my disappointment, focus much on Byron, who either didn't actually appear in the story or only appeared briefly. Brummel got a little more attention. It made me want to play the game myself.
I think it would follow the typical pattern of Byron's relationships: he'd be fascinated and enchanted at first, and it would be the heights of passion and utter happiness. And then: competition and dissention would creep in. And eventually: pistols at dawn, or at least loud drunken domestic fights at 3 a.m. After Jack had enough of that and took off, there would be some clever, insightful, witty, beautiful poetry about the affair.
Do people still call it slash if the characters are canonically gay or bi? I tend to think of 'slash' as changing the perceived sexuality of a character.
Only because most slash is written about characters who are by default taken taken as het in the canon. Slash just means it's a story about sex or romance between same-sex characters. When you slash bi or gay characters - say, if you were to write a story about Nathan and Stewart from "Queer as Folk" - it's still slash.
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Date: 2006-11-01 03:45 pm (UTC)I think so. The fashionable quality of charm and wit and repartee - the form-fitting clothes, and the 'period military' - suits him very well. This makes me want to picture Captain Jack on a horse. He's more of a high-tech guy as we see him, but especially in his "Torchwood" mode I think he'd do well as a Regency gent - including the arrogance and the vanity. (I mean this in the nicest way!)
Alternately he could be a salt-of-the-earth lower class kind of guy, like Weaver in "Precious Bane", smarter and more heroic than the indolent (or absent) landowners....
Fits a lot of heroic patterns, doesn't he?
The story I read that slashed him with Byron didn't, to my disappointment, focus much on Byron, who either didn't actually appear in the story or only appeared briefly. Brummel got a little more attention. It made me want to play the game myself.
Byron finally meets someone who's more than his equal in outré behaviour! (Could his ego stand for that?!)
I think it would follow the typical pattern of Byron's relationships: he'd be fascinated and enchanted at first, and it would be the heights of passion and utter happiness. And then: competition and dissention would creep in. And eventually: pistols at dawn, or at least loud drunken domestic fights at 3 a.m. After Jack had enough of that and took off, there would be some clever, insightful, witty, beautiful poetry about the affair.
Do people still call it slash if the characters are canonically gay or bi? I tend to think of 'slash' as changing the perceived sexuality of a character.
Only because most slash is written about characters who are by default taken taken as het in the canon. Slash just means it's a story about sex or romance between same-sex characters. When you slash bi or gay characters - say, if you were to write a story about Nathan and Stewart from "Queer as Folk" - it's still slash.