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100 days of enemy recs: 22. Kent Parson
What is this? Only 22 days in and we have another one I've actually *written*?? Weird!
So, Check Please! - was a huge fandom a couple years ago but one of those that died down fast. I got into it during a long canon hiatus and then never picked up the last season or so of canon, but I still go back and read favorite fic. The fandom was a mess but a lot of the fic is amazing. It's a webcomic about hockey, and growing up, and being queer, and playing hockey while growing up queer. One of my (other) bulletproof kinks is stories about people in the public eye dealing with manage their public self and private self, and Check Please! fic was very, very good for that (in a way that I mostly otherwise only get in RPF, but pro sports RPF is just asking to have your heart torn out.)
Kent Parson is honestly a minor character, but he showed up right before the hiatus in a way that implied there might be a lot more, plus he was really fucked up but in a way that might be fixable, which is like catnip to slash fans.
Kent Parson can be summed up as such:
People who utterly despise Kent Parson: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend's new boyfriend Bitty. Kent Parson.
People who have extremely complicated feelings about Kent Parson: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend Jack. All of Jack's friends who know their real backstory. Any fans of hockey teams that play against Kent Parson.
People who think the sun shines out of Kent Parson's ass: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend's parents. Kent Parson. Everyone else who has ever heard of or met Kent Parson (in theory).
So he's a very good source to get my "dealing with celebrity" and my "complicate enemy relationships" at once.
(also I wrote two fics about him, and I just discovered a third one in my WIPs file that honestly reading it five years later is a complete story even if 2016 me wanted to be overambitious with it? So I just now snuck that into the series with a backdate.)
Recs! One of the top fics for him was pulled just recently to be pro-published and I am sad I did not know it time to dl it, but there are luckily lots more, here's three I like.
So, Check Please! - was a huge fandom a couple years ago but one of those that died down fast. I got into it during a long canon hiatus and then never picked up the last season or so of canon, but I still go back and read favorite fic. The fandom was a mess but a lot of the fic is amazing. It's a webcomic about hockey, and growing up, and being queer, and playing hockey while growing up queer. One of my (other) bulletproof kinks is stories about people in the public eye dealing with manage their public self and private self, and Check Please! fic was very, very good for that (in a way that I mostly otherwise only get in RPF, but pro sports RPF is just asking to have your heart torn out.)
Kent Parson is honestly a minor character, but he showed up right before the hiatus in a way that implied there might be a lot more, plus he was really fucked up but in a way that might be fixable, which is like catnip to slash fans.
Kent Parson can be summed up as such:
People who utterly despise Kent Parson: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend's new boyfriend Bitty. Kent Parson.
People who have extremely complicated feelings about Kent Parson: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend Jack. All of Jack's friends who know their real backstory. Any fans of hockey teams that play against Kent Parson.
People who think the sun shines out of Kent Parson's ass: Kent Parson's ex-boyfriend's parents. Kent Parson. Everyone else who has ever heard of or met Kent Parson (in theory).
So he's a very good source to get my "dealing with celebrity" and my "complicate enemy relationships" at once.
(also I wrote two fics about him, and I just discovered a third one in my WIPs file that honestly reading it five years later is a complete story even if 2016 me wanted to be overambitious with it? So I just now snuck that into the series with a backdate.)
Recs! One of the top fics for him was pulled just recently to be pro-published and I am sad I did not know it time to dl it, but there are luckily lots more, here's three I like.
- Greener Grasses (11374 words) by dieofthatroar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: (Past) Kent "Parse" Parson/Jack Zimmermann, Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Kent "Parse" Parson & Jeff "Swoops" Troy
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Alicia Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann, Jeff "Swoops" Troy, Las Vegas Aces (Ensemble)
Additional Tags: Suicidal Thoughts, Anxiety Disorder, Substance Abuse, Depression, Coming Out, Homophobia, canonical toxic masculinity, Canon Compliant, post 3-26
Jack comes out. Kent - doesn't. It's complicated. There's pie. - (hold on) when you get love (21779 words) by AugustaByron
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight/Kent Parson, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight, Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Kent Parson, Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann (past), Shitty Knight/Kent Parson
Characters: Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Shitty Knight, Kent "Parse" Parson, Jack Zimmermann, Las Vegas Aces - Character
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Friends to Lovers, Polyamory
How do you deal when you find out you're soulmates with your ex's best friend? And his other best friend? Who are dating each other? It's complicated. There's beer. - Can't Learn to Leave (42838 words) by SummerFrost
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eric Bittle/Kent "Parse" Parson, Kent "Parse" Parson & Original Male Character(s), (Past) Eric Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Minor or Background Relationship(s), (Background) Jack Zimmermann/Alexei "Tater" Mashkov
Characters: Kent "Parse" Parson, Eric Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Alexei "Tater" Mashkov, Samwell Men's Hockey Team, Original Characters, Las Vegas Aces (Ensemble)
Additional Tags: Homophobia, Self-Harm, Suicidal Thoughts, Mental Health Issues, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Slow Burn, Sort Of, Pining, Heavy Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, WITH A HAPPY ENDING I PROMISE, Coming Out, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, hockey violence, Mild Blood, Painplay, Light Sadism, Dom/sub, Marking, Aftercare, Rebound Sex, Complicated Relationships, Compulsory Heterosexuality (kind of), Begging, Safewords, Sexual Slurs as Kink, Communication, Panic Attacks, Drinking to Cope, Vomiting, Real Hockey Teams but No Real Players, Verbal Humiliation
Also complicated: when your ex's new boyfriend - who is apparently now also his ex - gets hired as social media manager by your team's PR to help you stay in the closet. And he's hot. (But there's pie.)