Gift Vid: Seamstress - for kiki_miserychic

[chaila]

Title: Seamstress
Recipient: kiki_miserychic
Vidder: chaila
Music: Dessa, "Seamstress"
Summary: They said you were past repair. Jesse/Riley
Notes: Contains depictions of suicide attempt.

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[sanguinity]

She almost, almost wins. And not just against her own fridging. She fights for the relationships that she wants to have, too. She fights for what she needs and wants, she does. Riley. <3

I adore Jesse, but I'm also super-particular about her, and especially so about the way that the intimate-partner-violence parts of her story get told. And then this exchange came back with so. much. excellent. Jesse.

ETA: ...and because I never said, that tiny Derek montage is brilliant. Especially the juxtaposition of "Shoot for the chip" (Derek-speak for "I love you") and someone else's Derek shooting for her chip, so to speak. You do KEYSMASH FEELS really really well.

[chaila]

Oh, Riley, yes absolutely. When she found out one of the few people she loves was betraying her along, she was going to just take it all anyway and make it what she wished it was, and make it the way she wanted. And she almost got there. :(

YOU FIX A MAN AND HE FLIES AWAY.

I literally cannot describe the depth of the Jesse (and yes, Jesse/Derek!) feelings encompassed in that line, with her raaaaage reaction to Charles Fischer who had Derek and not Jesse, and the "Kill him, baby" and the fact that Derek doesn't kill him, she does (and oh, she was so unspecific with that pronoun), and the "I love you too" and the finger pulling at that trigger. Man, these characters. <3

[sanguinity]

SO MANY JESSE RILEY DEREK FEELINGS IN THAT VID.