Net-Fic Review: The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts (Inception/Sixth Sense)

[kerravonsen]

I've finally seen Inception... so here are a few crossover recs.

Title: The Boy Who Spoke With Ghosts
Universe: Inception/Sixth Sense
Author: AvocadoLove
Size: 61K 21794 words
Tags: Novelette, Crossover, Ghosts, Fusion
Characters: Arthur, Dom Cobb, Mal Cobb

Ranking: Very Good
Review: http://www.katspace.org/reviews/netfic/Author/AvocadoLove#Title_TheBoyWhoSpokeWithGhosts

Summary: No one suspects Arthur. He's too practical, too organized, too sensible to believe in the supernatural. Based on the kink meme prompt: Arthur's real name is Cole Sear.

I love this, not just for the crossover idea, but because, like both Inception and Sixth Sense, the characters are forced to wrestle with their demons in order to overcome the real dangers they were facing.

Caveat Emptor: this is marked as both slash and gen. I think one can read it either way.

So... what do you think?

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Interesting. I suspect that I'm not sufficiently familiar with Inception to really understand the world - I found myself shrugging and taking it on faith that lots of the story held together. The characterisation was good, and I liked the way that the details of Sixth Sense were incorporated.

[kerravonsen]

If you haven't seen Inception, I think any Inception fanfic would be confusing.

[fred_mouse]

I've only encountered Inception via crossovers, and I've found some of them to be less confusing than this one, although I've suspected that they were possibly a bit heavy handed with the canon elements. This one I enjoyed, but I hadn't come across the references to the roles that the characters play, so I was finding those references confusing.