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Title: Flashback: The Redemption of "Stephen Colbert"
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 for offscreen disturbing content
Words: ~1400
Disclaimer: ( Two serious ones. )
Notes: This is a companion to I'm Right Behind You, which explores the creepy side of character!Stephen. Charlene is traumatized by him, Sam repelled. And yet Jon is friends with Stephen - which involves cutting him a lot of slack. I wanted to reconcile the two perspectives on the character.
The title is an allusion to Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, an excellent novel by Orson Scott Card. Check your local library. If it's there, read it.
The story is largely flashback from I'm Right Behind You. The names are all from the credits of Craig Kilborn's last episode, and the description of Madeleine Smithberg is from her appearance in the same, but I know absolutely nothing about any of them except Craig. It's alsodarker than my usual fare the darkest thing I had written up until this point.
( Why Jon puts up with Stephen. )
Fandom: The Colbert Report
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13 for offscreen disturbing content
Words: ~1400
Disclaimer: ( Two serious ones. )
Notes: This is a companion to I'm Right Behind You, which explores the creepy side of character!Stephen. Charlene is traumatized by him, Sam repelled. And yet Jon is friends with Stephen - which involves cutting him a lot of slack. I wanted to reconcile the two perspectives on the character.
The title is an allusion to Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, an excellent novel by Orson Scott Card. Check your local library. If it's there, read it.
The story is largely flashback from I'm Right Behind You. The names are all from the credits of Craig Kilborn's last episode, and the description of Madeleine Smithberg is from her appearance in the same, but I know absolutely nothing about any of them except Craig. It's also
( Why Jon puts up with Stephen. )