Historical reenactment for the win! It neatly sidesteps the issue of a pre-Time Agency Jack having a different name by having him "playing" the character of Michael Collins. This way we get a name, but not Jack's real name, which adds to Ianto's confusion and disorientation.
I love the references to "old English" and that Jack wants Ianto to put in a good word with the Time Agency for him about his language skills. I adore the fact that Jack celebrates winning the "Space Race" by snogging a very confused Ianto in victory. But my most favorite bit of all, the part that literally had me squeeing with joy was that you took the rift incident part of my prompt and turned it into "RIFT INCIDENT" with quotation marks and all caps and made it a part of Ianto's archival focused internal monologue!!!!!
Thank you so much!
:D
(Sorry for the repost, I realized I accidentially posted as a separate comment rather than as a reply)
Re: Prompt:)
LOL! This is seriously, seriously brilliant!
Historical reenactment for the win! It neatly sidesteps the issue of a pre-Time Agency Jack having a different name by having him "playing" the character of Michael Collins. This way we get a name, but not Jack's real name, which adds to Ianto's confusion and disorientation.
I love the references to "old English" and that Jack wants Ianto to put in a good word with the Time Agency for him about his language skills. I adore the fact that Jack celebrates winning the "Space Race" by snogging a very confused Ianto in victory. But my most favorite bit of all, the part that literally had me squeeing with joy was that you took the rift incident part of my prompt and turned it into "RIFT INCIDENT" with quotation marks and all caps and made it a part of Ianto's archival focused internal monologue!!!!!
Thank you so much!
:D
(Sorry for the repost, I realized I accidentially posted as a separate comment rather than as a reply)