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lyricaltitlesTitle: 'You Ain't Got to be So Blind'
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted [formerly cyberiad_queen]
Fandom: Labyrinth
Characters: Jareth, Hoggle
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Artist: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Album: Greatest Hits
Song: 'To Love Somebody'
Summary: Fear was the tool that kept little Hoggle in line.
Hoggle's loyalty was always assured, as far as Jareth was concerned. Not his love and respect as a proud subject, perhaps. But certainly as a lackey with no one else to give his allegiance to.
Jareth has always been positive that this was how matters stood. Now, though, he wonders...was he perhaps blinding himself?
Fear was the tool that kept little Hoggle in line. Fear, a powerful motivator. Punishing actions, or even spoken threats, were seldom necessary. The mere idea of such treatment was enough.
Now, with Sarah and her baby brother safely out of his grasp, Jareth is reluctantly impressed. Evidently, Hoggle is capable of emotions that run more deeply than fright. It seems that Sarah was able to find another way through to Hoggle's sense of loyalty. Her kindness and respect, and Hoggle's own desire to be worthy of such things, appear to have bought him away from the Goblin King.
Perhaps he should have been watching the diminutive man just a bit more closely.
Author:
but_can_i_be_trusted [formerly cyberiad_queen]Fandom: Labyrinth
Characters: Jareth, Hoggle
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Artist: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Album: Greatest Hits
Song: 'To Love Somebody'
Summary: Fear was the tool that kept little Hoggle in line.
Hoggle's loyalty was always assured, as far as Jareth was concerned. Not his love and respect as a proud subject, perhaps. But certainly as a lackey with no one else to give his allegiance to.
Jareth has always been positive that this was how matters stood. Now, though, he wonders...was he perhaps blinding himself?
Fear was the tool that kept little Hoggle in line. Fear, a powerful motivator. Punishing actions, or even spoken threats, were seldom necessary. The mere idea of such treatment was enough.
Now, with Sarah and her baby brother safely out of his grasp, Jareth is reluctantly impressed. Evidently, Hoggle is capable of emotions that run more deeply than fright. It seems that Sarah was able to find another way through to Hoggle's sense of loyalty. Her kindness and respect, and Hoggle's own desire to be worthy of such things, appear to have bought him away from the Goblin King.
Perhaps he should have been watching the diminutive man just a bit more closely.