Scissors
| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Scissors |
| Author(s): | LRH Balzar |
| Date(s): | 1997 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | Scissors |
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Scissors is a gen Professionals story by LRH Balzar.
It was printed in After the Battle where it has art by Warren Oddsson.
Reactions and Reviews
1997
The last and longest story [in the zine], "Scissors," is a pretty heavy (to me) hurt/comfort story. If you want to see Doyle badly hurt and struggling with the after-effects, Bodie suffering silently and comforting for all he's worth, this one's for you. There are some scenes that I thought were absolutely beautiful, particularly one in which Bodie tries to (forcefully) make Doyle face the fear that's emotionally paralyzing him.
I had a few quibbles here and there: the villain in "Scissors" is one-dimensional and just sort of convenient, but then again, too much background and buildup for villains in stories generally bores my socks off. A word here and there gave away the fact that the author is not British, but this didn't overly irritate me either since I've seen worse, even in my *own* stuff.
The author also uses a shifting timeline in "Scissors" which I disliked at first, but then I saw that it actually intensified some of the emotional drama between B&D for me. It was an interesting approach.
On the plus side again, there are a couple of relatively minor female characters in "Scissors" that are nicely drawn as well, not just throwaways.
The best way I can put it is that this zine felt like a good slash zine without sex. The characterizations are very male, very strong, very recognizably Bodie and Doyle. The growth and changes within the B&D relationship are the central focus in all the stories. As a result, they satisfied me more than a lot of 'real' slash stories out there.
There's a good bit of artwork in this short zine, all done by Warren Oddsson. Very good artist, even though the pieces are familiar poses. There's one, an illo in "Scissors," of Doyle asleep in Bodie's arms that I especially liked. [1]
2005
This story shows the remarkable partnership Bodie and Doyle have, it probably falls in the category of pre-slash.Bodie has a couple of days off and Doyle is still on sick leave after a particularly nasty case where Doyle has been held hostage by a sadistic nutter.
Then Bodie gets a phone call, his still shell-shocked partner wanted to get a hair cut and something has triggered a memory in Doyle and he loses it. To help Doyle, Bodie has to find out what exactly happened to him.
The story is told in the present with Bodie trying to help Doyle and with flash backs of the terrible ordeal Doyle went through.
Bodie is prepared to do everything to help Doyle come to terms with what happened to him.[2]