Death of the Dream, NC-17, non-con

[valtyr]

The discussion about Evil Steve reminded me of a fic I wrote a while ago and never posted to the comm.

Title: Death of the Dream
Author: valtyr
Beta: None
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 2k
Contents/Warnings/Spoilers: Explicit rape.
Summary: Steve comes back from the dead. Tony's not as happy to see him as he thought he'd be.

Read on AO3. Not kidding about the rape.

If you wrote a dark/evil Steve, maybe link the story in the comments? Would be interesting to see people's takes.

Comments

[valtyr]

Well, introspection has its place of course, but I generally try not to duplicate stuff too much; if a character is struggling and crying, I don't think I need to spend much time with the character dwelling on how they don't want it. I kind of assume the reader will be able to figure it out.

Tony has a lot invested in believing Steve is not broken, and he also has a tendency to take blame on himself, so I can quite see that he would convince himself he wanted it really and Steve was responding to that. It wouldn't be true, of course.

I guess it's good to have these things discussed; better this way round than commenters having to convince an author that her romantic seduction is a rape fic, as has happened on some occasions.