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100 days of enemy recs: 58. Inspector Spacetime
I'm doing all the classic fandoms, of course I can't leave out Inspector Spacetime!
The most common enemyships in IS fandom involve, not the recurring villains, but the Anti-Inspector - the inverted evil version of the Inspector who comes out as a result of being negatized. There's actually a lot of fandoms where this is an option for enemyship, whether it's a Mirrorverse AU counterpart or an actual evil clone or something more directly jekyll-and-hyde like the Anti-Inspector, but somehow this is the first time it's come up in my recs!
(On that note, today's Star Trek episode was The Enemy Within. WHAT was Spock's last line? Poor Janice, but is there *any way* to take Spock's last line with that smile, other than "evil Jim really turned me on"???)
The evil counterpart trope has a lot of possibility for shipping! It gives you a chance to let people team up who wouldn't otherwise - both with and against the evil version. It lets you see a different side of a character. It lets you create an opposite-good version of an evil character, a favorite of mine. You can have fun with moustaches. And it lets characters do things as their evil version that they would never do as their good version - even if they might have wanted to.
That one shows up a lot with the Anti-Inspector, especially since the Inspector is generally played as vaguely asexual, and the Anti-Inspector is played as... the opposite of that. So here's one of my favorite fics, featuring (as you probably guessed) that scene with Constable Reggie.
The most common enemyships in IS fandom involve, not the recurring villains, but the Anti-Inspector - the inverted evil version of the Inspector who comes out as a result of being negatized. There's actually a lot of fandoms where this is an option for enemyship, whether it's a Mirrorverse AU counterpart or an actual evil clone or something more directly jekyll-and-hyde like the Anti-Inspector, but somehow this is the first time it's come up in my recs!
(On that note, today's Star Trek episode was The Enemy Within. WHAT was Spock's last line? Poor Janice, but is there *any way* to take Spock's last line with that smile, other than "evil Jim really turned me on"???)
The evil counterpart trope has a lot of possibility for shipping! It gives you a chance to let people team up who wouldn't otherwise - both with and against the evil version. It lets you see a different side of a character. It lets you create an opposite-good version of an evil character, a favorite of mine. You can have fun with moustaches. And it lets characters do things as their evil version that they would never do as their good version - even if they might have wanted to.
That one shows up a lot with the Anti-Inspector, especially since the Inspector is generally played as vaguely asexual, and the Anti-Inspector is played as... the opposite of that. So here's one of my favorite fics, featuring (as you probably guessed) that scene with Constable Reggie.
- Negatized (2414 words) by thingswithwings
Fandom: Community, Inspector Spacetime
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Anti-Inspector/Constable Reggie
Additional Tags: Consent Play, Rape Roleplay, Roleplay, Kink, Dreamatorium
The Inspector is famously thought of as asexual; the Anti-Inspector is . . . not.