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Author Yelle Hughes

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The Aegean Chronicles Series
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Vantage Point (The Reprise) - Chapter 1 - AFanWhoFeelsThings - The Walking Dead (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Rick Grimes is a broken man living a half-life, solely focused on exercising his demons through his dark deeds as a part-time P.I., part-time vigilante in Atlanta. Until that is, his focus catches sight of the mysterious, sexy woman who lives next door through his window, Michonne Hawthorne. The more he watches, the harder he falls. When he takes a case that sends him crashing back into his tragic past, he also finds himself crashing through her front door to save her life – then deeper, and deeper into her dark world. There's no turning back from there. As both the case and Rick's obsession with Michonne charge at each other full steam, the two lovers discover that they feed each other's darkest instincts - and they like it. One question remains: Now that Rick and Michonne have emerged from their broken worlds to find love, who's going to stop them from burning their pasts, and all their enemies, to the ground?

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Y'all, this is a labor of love. I wrote this story years ago, at the peak of my obsession with Rick and Michonne from The Walking Dead. It's based on my favorite film noirs, my favorite femme fatales, and my favorite broody, slightly cray-cray antiheroes. Rick Grimes is one of the best leading men ever written or performed, and for me personally, it is his dark side -- the one he taps into the protect those he loves -- that is one of the sexiest things about him. That, and his undying devotion to and love for Michonne. I wanted to explore that, luxuriate in it if you will, when I started this story.

I also very much wanted to explore Michonne's dark side. She's just as crazy as he is, after all.

Years later, after having been fed soooo well by The Ones Who Live, I've decided to revive the story and rewrite/refresh it for the current times. It's the same Vantage Point you know and love, improved and updated to amplify what I already knew back then: Rick Grimes is nothing if not a man in love. The story is finished and will be posted in batches of five chapters each! Also, there's the sequel I cooked up way back when.

-Kendra

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Ok Kendra....I see you sis. Let me give this a re read.

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I keep thinking about a post I saw the other day, and likely won't be able to find again, which proposed as a response to "you'll be fine if you have nothing to hide" the phrase:

" I have nothing to hide, but I don't trust your intentions and judgement"

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Was it this one?

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are."

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Anonymous asked:

The significance of him asking her for directions in his dream because he's lost. Because Rick knew he had lost himself, and needed his family to bring him back.

thosewildcharms answered:

YES LET'S TALK ABOUT THE DREAMS because they really are so well done and well placed to be indicative of rick's mental state:

  • first dream. rick has just cut off his own hand to escape and it does not work. he's feeling fractured and lost, completely out of ideas and losing hope - there's literally a shot of him lying on the ground that is immediately mirrored by a walker burning up. the next scene is the first part of the first dream sequence: he tells michonne he's lost, that he knows where he needs to go (home, back to his family) but he doesn't know how to get there (doesn't know how to escape). michonne shows him the way and tells him she believes in him. the next day he gets the idea to join the CRM and play double agent so he can use the elevated access and resources to escape.
  • second half of the first dream. rick has just been fully initiated in the CRM. he dreams of michonne, who tells him she'll be here (in his dreams) every day. he is still clinging to her, still visiting her in his dreams every night the way he visited carl to keep his hope alive. she's still guiding him home.
  • final dream. rick has just burned all of letters to michonne and "decided to die" after okafor tells him he will kill rick's family if rick ever escapes. he "doesn't see [michonne] anymore. he only sees what's ahead." he dreams of her anyway. only for her image to burn up and be replaced with images of his childhood home burning, walkers, and the crm. the next thing we see is him agreeing to okafor's plan for real. all of his hope is lost and he's fully gone because she's gone, taken from him like carl was.
  • but crucially! he does remember one thing dream!michonne says: "we can make the whole world ours if we want to." it's exactly what she would say, and he knows she's right. and knowing she's right, listening to her and letting her guide him in real life is how they both get home.
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Just being honest here but I am trying so hard to not hate Judith… not because I hate her but because of all these yt feminist who only started liking her because RJ exist. It’s hilarious how they use her to hide their racism. Idk if it’s just me, but anytime someone says anything untrue but harmful about Rj, no one bats an eyelash… there are literal hashtags of people bullying the real kid but that’s okay. His Instagram is filled with folks calling him the N word.Yet the moment someone says something true about judith, who is FICTIONAL!!! NOT A REAL HUMAN BEING.( her not being ricks, and being the product of Shane ) man they get soooo upset… and we all know why!

Rick wanted RJ… this isn’t the same for Judith, but he learned to love her.

RJ is ricks legacy, and Judith is not. Yt feminist are accustomed to seeing themselves as wanted, as desired, and when a melanated little boy was desired and planned for, and not the child of a love affair between a white Baby mama and her baby daddy… their true colors show.

They use exscuses like, “ he’s not badass he doesn’t do anything like Carl .” But let’s be honest. RJ is 7… we’ve never seen Carl that young.. yet we’ve seen Judith at Carls age, and yet she hasn’t done anything remotely cool like Carl. So if anyone’s got plot armor it’s her… or they’ll say, RJ had awkward lines, when his made the most sense as he always considered his father the brave man. That is the only thing he knew him as.

Listen, I love how Michonne loves Judith because she truly adopted her, not because she had to but because she wanted to…. But I am so happy that Rick, a white man who married a black woman wants his biracial son, cared about his personality, and not just whether he was alive or not, because it really is making these dude bros upset… and yt feminist

It’s the fact that you can make fun of any child on the show, but god forbid you make fun of Judith or say something that’s the true, it’s the end of the world… a hit dog gonna holler

Have you ever noticed.. it’s okay to say RJ doesn’t deserve the hat… despite him being a grimes. It’s okay to say “RJ live execution.” It’s okay to say that RJ is lame and weak, despite him being 7. But if you point out that Rick has a hard time accepting Judith in the beginning, if you point out that he dreams of Carl and Michonne to stay alive at the CRM, but dreaming of Judith never even crossed him mind… if you point out that everytime Rick asked about Judith it was only to ensure that she was alive… which is on brand considering he told Michonne, “ I had to accept that… so I could keep her alive.” Not so he could love her or bond with her… if you point out all these little nuggets that shows that Rick, a fictional man, struggled to accept a fictional child that will forever carry the DNA of Shane and Lori… suddenly every yt feminist within two mile radius becomes triggered.. I’m just sick of it. Truly I hope there is a S2, where RJ is older and more marketed… purely just to piss certain people off.

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