Beggar's Banquet
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Beggar's Banquet |
| Author(s): | H.G. |
| Date(s): | March 1983 |
| Length: | 31 typewritten pages |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | online here |
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Beggar's Banquet is a Bodie/Doyle story by H.G..
It was a circuit story and was later published in HG Collected #1.
It is a story on The 1985 Hatstand Express Top Ten Lists.
Summaries
"The death of a fellow CI5 agent triggers Doyle's uncontrollable rage and he takes it out on Bodie. Bodie declares his love for Doyle and is hurt when Doyle, driven by a lifetime of insecurity and fear, rejects it."[1]
Reactions and Reviews
1986
For pure catharsis, I don't think I can name a better story.[2]
A strange story - I didn't like it the first time I read it but on subsequent re-readings it has become one of my favorites. I like the characterization very much.[3]
1988
"Beggar's Banquet" sensitively portrays the twists through the labyrinth of Doyle's guilt-ridden psyche and it is a finely crafted "emotional" hurt/comfort story, where an anguished Bodie, who has already been hurt by Doyle's vicious temper, assists his partner attain mental well-being again; this story is one of the few in this fandom which is pervaded by a delicately, sensual ambience, rather than one of overt lust and sex. [4]
1993
Ah, Begger's Banquet, yes ... almost as good as that classic of hurt/comfort by H.G., No Strings. While not as intense as Sebastian's Adagio series, Bodie and Doyle are definitely not marshmellow fluff in these. They are mean to each other ... for some reason, I like that. Not healthy on the co-dependency scale, perhaps -- but I really get into stories where they push each other hard. ... I do see it as hurt-comfort. Not masochistic, sadistic, whatever ... maybe, at least they are extremely involved with each other, usually to the exclusion of anyone else.
No room for Clares, Annes or Marikas. I like them mean, jealously possessive of each other, usually on the edge of a temper tantrum ... all in all, splendid examples of males in rut. And it's not something that I'd ever wish on myself, either of them, or someone like them. So explain that fantasy to me?[5]
*Doyle* seduces (If, 'ok, I know you want me, you can have me now' is a seduction...), but both suffer... Doyle definitely on bottom, ("This is what you've been after for so long, isn't it--to fuck me?"..."'s nice to be wanted." but they did it off stage, damnit.) Kind of a draw; whether its a Bodie lover or Doyle lover story. [6]
2005
First time. Change of pace. Post "No Stone". Angsty. But even when she has Doyle crying, Bodie realises it's most likely from rage as much as anything else - a nice touch that for me keeps them closer to the real characters. Another one - Doyle: "You should've told me... Sodomy's fun. You're beautiful. But you're breakin' my back mate." [7]
References
- ^ Dagger. "The Professionals Online Library Title List: B".
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #7
- ^ In The Hatstand Express #6 from a fan listing what was supposed to be her top 10 Pros stories; the list turned out to be 50 stories long
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #18 (1988)
- ^ quoted anonymously from Virgule-L (Dec 7, 1993)
- ^ Sandy Hereld, quoted with permission at Virgule-L, February 26, 1993
- ^ comment by byslantedlight at The wide wide world of zine preferences (a kind of reccing), Archived version posted November 2005