but having them be, at heart, a shit. Justin as a spoiled rich kid who is just using Brian, Brian as a hard, uncaring taker who doesn't give a fuck about how Justin feels.
omg, whenever I read posts like this I always want names named! ;)
I don't read fics like you're mentioning because sap that I am, I want to know there's a positive, if not happy, ending. Even angsty fic has to have some kind of upside that I can feel okay about and know that they're together somehow, and that includes death!fic. And some people would argue that there could be a positive ending in a fic where they decide to part company forever, wait, lemme sit down... okay, they can argue that POV, but it's not valid in my world! A universe where Brian & Justin are not together *by choice* is not anything I want to spend time on. ;)
And the same goes for the kind of fic you're talking about. There's nothing fun about that kind of OOC-ness and I don't think twice about stopping a story like that in mid-word. I read one like that once (Simon's Other Foot series; in that one Brian is just hateful) and I will never, ever do that again. I didn't know I wouldn't get an angst payoff of delayed & fated happy reunion. I stewed over that fic for days, I was so upset. Ridiculous, I know, but I did. There's a WIP being posted on the fic comms now that has a warning that it will not end up the way we want it to, so be aware. I appreciate that. I don't know what kind of characters she's creating but if one of them gives up the other for Brandon? I really don't care to know. ;(
I'm not a writer, but I just don't see the enjoyment in creating that type of scenario.