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You can’t claim us, we live here! - Lost Sayid/Sawyer
Item #1: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
circe_tigana is ebil. I am not not not thinking about Theodore/Neville. Not that much at any rate. Really.
Item #2: 24 days untilthe apocalypse the election; 26 days until the new season of The O.C. If the world ends, that better not hold up the premiere, I’m just saying.
Item #3: Happy Birthdayshayheyred
Item #4: I am not thinking about Theodore & Neville. No.
Item #5:
Lost
Sayid/Sawyer (Because strangely enough, Charlie doesn’t interest me in the slightest)
The Olive Branch
Their island is a microcosm of the world; the others don’t see it yet, but Sayid isn’t fooled. From the moment Sawyer began harassing him for posessing simple, basic knowledge, Sayid has known he would have to fight for his place.
He has always known men like Sawyer.
For as long as Sayid can remember there have always been men who have judged him for his skin color and his accent and the place he was born and his beliefs. When he was small he didn’t understand it in the same way he does now, and when he joined the army it didn’t matter because everyone was the same.
Then came the War of America’s Aggression as his father called it, and Sayid realized the difference between dislike and true hatred. Death showed him the unimportance of such trivialities as skin color, and he wondered why people spent so much time on such a meaningless detail.
When he went to work in the United States it bothered him, this being judged simply for where he was from and being found guilty for the sins of a few. It was not the sort of thing people talked about openly, but he felt it to be true all the same. Nevertheless, he went about his work and made friends with those who didn’t really care where he was from or that his English was accented.
Sayid truly believes that people are good in their hearts, and it’s only fear and ignorance that makes them lack understanding. He sees this now on their island in Hurley and Jack and Charlie and Kate. He knows that in most cases one person alone is much smarter than a group as a whole, and it’s because of this that he tries to make a point of not listening to Sawyer’s taunting.
It’s because he sees the good in people that he tries to see the good in Sawyer when Sawyer tries to project his hatred.
Their island is too small for Sawyer’s pettiness.
It’s too small for Sayid to succumb to such baseness himself.
If he has lived through war and famine and disease and truly unbridled hate, there’s no way that he’ll let Sawyer defeat him now, and the apple Sayid gives Sawyer signifies his strength.
It says that Sawyer will not best him in any regard, but if Sawyer is willing, perhaps they can learn how to live together and survive their shared misery.
Of course this is a big 'if,' but the first step is always the hardest.
-end-
Sayid/Sawyer = The OTP of Slashy Aggression (TM)!
I gotta find me some Lost icons.
circe_tigana is ebil. I am not not not thinking about Theodore/Neville. Not that much at any rate. Really.Item #2: 24 days until
Item #3: Happy Birthday
shayheyredItem #4: I am not thinking about Theodore & Neville. No.
Item #5:
Lost
Sayid/Sawyer (Because strangely enough, Charlie doesn’t interest me in the slightest)
The Olive Branch
Their island is a microcosm of the world; the others don’t see it yet, but Sayid isn’t fooled. From the moment Sawyer began harassing him for posessing simple, basic knowledge, Sayid has known he would have to fight for his place.
He has always known men like Sawyer.
For as long as Sayid can remember there have always been men who have judged him for his skin color and his accent and the place he was born and his beliefs. When he was small he didn’t understand it in the same way he does now, and when he joined the army it didn’t matter because everyone was the same.
Then came the War of America’s Aggression as his father called it, and Sayid realized the difference between dislike and true hatred. Death showed him the unimportance of such trivialities as skin color, and he wondered why people spent so much time on such a meaningless detail.
When he went to work in the United States it bothered him, this being judged simply for where he was from and being found guilty for the sins of a few. It was not the sort of thing people talked about openly, but he felt it to be true all the same. Nevertheless, he went about his work and made friends with those who didn’t really care where he was from or that his English was accented.
Sayid truly believes that people are good in their hearts, and it’s only fear and ignorance that makes them lack understanding. He sees this now on their island in Hurley and Jack and Charlie and Kate. He knows that in most cases one person alone is much smarter than a group as a whole, and it’s because of this that he tries to make a point of not listening to Sawyer’s taunting.
It’s because he sees the good in people that he tries to see the good in Sawyer when Sawyer tries to project his hatred.
Their island is too small for Sawyer’s pettiness.
It’s too small for Sayid to succumb to such baseness himself.
If he has lived through war and famine and disease and truly unbridled hate, there’s no way that he’ll let Sawyer defeat him now, and the apple Sayid gives Sawyer signifies his strength.
It says that Sawyer will not best him in any regard, but if Sawyer is willing, perhaps they can learn how to live together and survive their shared misery.
Of course this is a big 'if,' but the first step is always the hardest.
-end-
Sayid/Sawyer = The OTP of Slashy Aggression (TM)!
I gotta find me some Lost icons.
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