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  1. Cym Sun 09 Jan 2022 11:50PM UTC

    Thank you so much for this insightful and lovely comment Olya ^^

    Of course Yassen has a tiny, Alex-shaped light in his cold, cold heart. That's why we love him, isn't it? XD

    Yassen killing all of his non-Scorpia employers in canon somehow amuses me to no ends, so of course it had to be mentioned!

    And the line from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Yassen that quoted immediately came to me when I read that prompt (it just seemed to fit Yassen building something 'with' Alex so well 😅) so that's how the spaghetti westerns invited themselves in this fic and in John's life. As I told Fred, I now headcanon John watching Once Upon the Time in the West in Paris with Yassen, and Yassen finding The Man with the Harmonica an awesome inspiration for his own mysterious, deadly competent and man-of-few-words persona XD

    Ian was mentioned because I can't imagine Alex being capable of ignoring that Yassen made him an orphan anew at that point. Not when he's all alone and at MI6's mercy.
    I also like the idea of Alex not wanting to kill Yassen not because Alex isn't capable of killing anybody yet, but because he realises Yassen does care and wants to protect him in his own, twisted, trauma induced way. Even if Yassen's interpretation of 'caring for a teenager' is an extremely personal one XD

    And obviously, the general idea was just to have fun 😆

    Loved your thoughts, as always! Thanks for sharing them Olya! 💜

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