#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it'd be interesting to see that explored, though I'm not sure there's a way to do it without it being super-depressing. I mean, most of the Jack Johnson fics about him being bankrupt also have some degree of depression/suicidality, and I'm not sure I'd want to see that for Bennett.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I'd read a take on it where his injury-proneness is actually related to the fact that he's secretly a superhero and he keeps getting hurt fighting bad guys (and possibly falling off rooftops) and covering it up with hockey injuries. Or, conversely, that he has the suckiest mutant power ever that means he gets hurt constantly. Maybe via preventing injuries to other people in his general vicinity, but then the Pens are so cursed when it comes to injuries that everything just goes haywire. Or, you know, it could just be that the team keeps saying he's "injured" so they can whisk him away to their alien master's tentacle breeding facility.

Okay, those are not a totally serious treatment of it, but I kind of like the take-this-kind-of-depressing-situation-and-add-an-out-there-element-to-it angle. Because while the more realistic angle would be really interesting (especially fic that had him interacting with another player who had similar injury woes and ended up retiring), it just makes me sad.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I'm always for dressing up RL hockey stuff with fantastical elements, so yeah, that could be fun. Although I feel like it'd be less fun if it was written after RL!Beau had already failed to sign anywhere and was effectively retired. There's a pretty short window there before it'd just be too sad.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yeah, that's very true. I'd really like for him to get signed by someone after this season and for his injury woes to somehow magically disappear, but I don't think that's super likely. Hopefully in the meantime he can get some playing time in in the playoffs and not injure himself celebrating a goal or walking to the dressing room or just sitting somewhere quietly and existing...

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

na

You say 'celebrating a goal' and I just wince. :(

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I can't tell if ayrt was joking or actually referring to the time Beau injured himself celebrating a goal.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was a reference

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

A-AYRT-RT

Both. I mean, the fact that he actually injured himself celebrating a goal is when the whole injury thing reached the "how is this a real thing that happened and not parody" point.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

This is like 'time to crate' in video games, except it's 'time to injury.'

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

DA
Agreed - it'd be cute and funny and whimsical ... if he isn't effectively retired. I'd love to see him with like, a baseball minor leaguer who's in the same situation. (Though I checked on a minor leaguer who I thought was in the Pirates system, and looks like he's not even playing for an MLB affiliated club anymore. Wow.)