Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

That was great. wow. The different prison scenarios and degrees really work. Not the worst thing each of them could imagine (because IMO Rodney spends the most time thinking of horrible outcomes, but he made it out relatively unscathed) It read more like, the more guilt they had the worse they punished themselves. Rodney's not that guilty, baseline. He freaks out and reacts and flips through all the horrible possibilities, but it's more like, angst, joy, guilt, and dismount! Then he eats something the size of his head, crashes, and starts over again tomorrow (at least in my head :P). Teyla's was maybe the most extreme for the "crime", but it fits with her sense of responsibility; she acquiesced to how they treated Michael as somewhat of a lab rat, so it's turnabout (times 100!). Ronon's was deceptively simple (kinda like him), he can't let go of that moment when he could have jumped this way instead of that. John's was the hardest to break out of, he already judges himself about Holland in real life, in his head all that's left for him is to take the (self-imposed) punishment...
I really love this because yes, plot, but also great characterization through plot. Yeah. :happy sigh: