Sorry, my internet's been dead for weeks and I'm hopelessly behind on comments!
Isn't e_a just for e/a slash? I don't want to get in trouble. I do have an Arthur origin story in the works (but I think it will be gen as well.)
To answer your question re: projections, my guess is that they are reflections of moments people feel guilty about and would choose to change--the stuff that stays with you and makes you cringe for years afterward. It's not necessarily the worst things you did, from an objective view point. It might not be the guy you HAD to kill in an alley that time, but the phone call you chose not to return and always regretted, or the time you called someone a faggot when you were fourteen, or whatever. (So for Eames it's the girl he screwed and walked away from, for Dom it's the woman he could have saved if he'd just said the right thing--because those are things that haunt you.)
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Isn't e_a just for e/a slash? I don't want to get in trouble. I do have an Arthur origin story in the works (but I think it will be gen as well.)
To answer your question re: projections, my guess is that they are reflections of moments people feel guilty about and would choose to change--the stuff that stays with you and makes you cringe for years afterward. It's not necessarily the worst things you did, from an objective view point. It might not be the guy you HAD to kill in an alley that time, but the phone call you chose not to return and always regretted, or the time you called someone a faggot when you were fourteen, or whatever. (So for Eames it's the girl he screwed and walked away from, for Dom it's the woman he could have saved if he'd just said the right thing--because those are things that haunt you.)