Nimble Tongue / by laetificare (PG-15)
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makoyiTitle: Nimble Tongue
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laetificare
Fandom: Grimm
Pairing: Nick/Juliette, Nick/Monroe
Genre: AU, Fantasy
Length: Short (Words: 17,397)
Admin Note: rec'd on fancake, rec'd on TV Tropes
Author's Summary:
Nick is cursed to lie.
Review:
The Author's Summary doesn't say a lot but basically, Detective Nick Burkhardt is working a cold case when the victim's mother realizes he's a Grimm. She's Wesen and not interested in hearing how Nick's not like those other Grimms so she curses him so everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Everything. Now he's got a partner who thinks he's started a prank war, a girlfriend who hasn't even noticed, and a court case coming up where he really can't get on the stand under oath and say his name is Nigel Bancroft and he's not a detective. On the up side, at least his best friend/maybe something more is really good at charades. He has to figure out how to fix it and, of course, it could never be as simple as convincing the witch to undo the spell.
It's this character storyline that I really like. I think it plays well with canon even now, by commenting on how things could have gone differently depending on who Nick trusted with what information about the Wesen and the Grimm thing (this fic was written mid-way through Season 1, before Adalind cursed Juliette and before the Verrat storyline became important). I would have liked to see the case plot and its related world-building handled a little better purely because the show is a cop drama, but that isn't what this fic is and with the quality of the curse and character plot, I think the fic is still good with backgrounding the case.
One problem I have with the fic though is that I could really have done without the brief jaunt into soulmate philosophy - particularly when he uses it against Renard, it just seemed like it came out of left-field and broke my suspension of disbelief for a bit.
Nimble Tongue (on AO3)
Author:
Fandom: Grimm
Pairing: Nick/Juliette, Nick/Monroe
Genre: AU, Fantasy
Length: Short (Words: 17,397)
Admin Note: rec'd on fancake, rec'd on TV Tropes
Author's Summary:
Nick is cursed to lie.
Review:
The Author's Summary doesn't say a lot but basically, Detective Nick Burkhardt is working a cold case when the victim's mother realizes he's a Grimm. She's Wesen and not interested in hearing how Nick's not like those other Grimms so she curses him so everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Everything. Now he's got a partner who thinks he's started a prank war, a girlfriend who hasn't even noticed, and a court case coming up where he really can't get on the stand under oath and say his name is Nigel Bancroft and he's not a detective. On the up side, at least his best friend/maybe something more is really good at charades. He has to figure out how to fix it and, of course, it could never be as simple as convincing the witch to undo the spell.
It's this character storyline that I really like. I think it plays well with canon even now, by commenting on how things could have gone differently depending on who Nick trusted with what information about the Wesen and the Grimm thing (this fic was written mid-way through Season 1, before Adalind cursed Juliette and before the Verrat storyline became important). I would have liked to see the case plot and its related world-building handled a little better purely because the show is a cop drama, but that isn't what this fic is and with the quality of the curse and character plot, I think the fic is still good with backgrounding the case.
One problem I have with the fic though is that I could really have done without the brief jaunt into soulmate philosophy - particularly when he uses it against Renard, it just seemed like it came out of left-field and broke my suspension of disbelief for a bit.
Nimble Tongue (on AO3)