It's my personal canon that Suzie's lusts are all about power, all about saying "fuck you" to her own history, and all about having a kind of predatory agency where she always gains the upper hand (so to speak). I don't think the glove made her crazy; I think it consolidated what was already deeply awry, and you've simply made the bloodlust part of that explicit. I've seen other fics where Ianto brings the glove to her attention to get her off his back, but this is by far the most complex and coherent vision I've seen, with the widest range of resonances.
Also my fanon: that Suzie is the most perceptive denizen of the Hub and could definitely have worked out what Ianto was really up to, were it not for her own blind spots. Her interactions with Jack here are spot-on; she gets so much about him, reads him so well, yet he's also a bit opaque and elusive. The implications of his immortality are just a little bit beyond her, because she sees him primarily in relation to her own will to power.
And the email flirtation with Lisa? Oh, utterly brill; especially as she never connects the dots on Ianto. Again, she perceives so much about him, knows his TW1 background makes his behavior inappropriate -- yet, because she's so busy pinning him to the Jack of Hubs card, she fails to see that he's playing her as well.
I think Suzie is one of the hardest characters to write well, but when she works, it takes us right to the core of the collective madness that is TW.
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It's my personal canon that Suzie's lusts are all about power, all about saying "fuck you" to her own history, and all about having a kind of predatory agency where she always gains the upper hand (so to speak). I don't think the glove made her crazy; I think it consolidated what was already deeply awry, and you've simply made the bloodlust part of that explicit. I've seen other fics where Ianto brings the glove to her attention to get her off his back, but this is by far the most complex and coherent vision I've seen, with the widest range of resonances.
Also my fanon: that Suzie is the most perceptive denizen of the Hub and could definitely have worked out what Ianto was really up to, were it not for her own blind spots. Her interactions with Jack here are spot-on; she gets so much about him, reads him so well, yet he's also a bit opaque and elusive. The implications of his immortality are just a little bit beyond her, because she sees him primarily in relation to her own will to power.
And the email flirtation with Lisa? Oh, utterly brill; especially as she never connects the dots on Ianto. Again, she perceives so much about him, knows his TW1 background makes his behavior inappropriate -- yet, because she's so busy pinning him to the Jack of Hubs card, she fails to see that he's playing her as well.
I think Suzie is one of the hardest characters to write well, but when she works, it takes us right to the core of the collective madness that is TW.