fanfiction rec: Although the brightest fell

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Title: Although the brightest fell

Author: justwolf

Pairing: None/Gen

Length: 1468

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: canonical character death

Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: We all start the same – naked and gaping. Then we begin to change. Spoilers for The Reichenbach Fall.

Reccer's comments: A short but very satisfying Jim Moriarty character study. I like the way the writing flows and I also like that it is just about Jim, alone. I do enjoy MorMor as a pairing, but it can be frustrating to only see them together, and to never see Jim apart. There's a tendency to only see Jim through the 'eyes' of Sherlock/John/Molly when, in fact, there's a lot more of Jim that can be fleshed out. 

Excerpt: We all start the same, but Jim wished we didn't. He didn't mind bodies and their blood and excrement and pain and the endless indignity of breathing. He didn't like to get his hands dirty, but he didn't mind bodies. Bodies belong to the devil: it is the angels who own the rest of us.

Comments

[mijeli.livejournal.com]

That sounds intriguing; thank you for the rec!