Well, this is what makes your Rodney-as-PI idea so brilliant -- the cynicism is so essential to him that the lack of laconic...ity[?] (god, there's no noun form of this word, is there) doesn't cripple the noir like it could.
However, if Tracer Bullet* is where your head goes, then mine went straight to Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, hands-down the slashiest classic noir novel ever written. Rodney may never be as coolly self-contained as Philip Marlowe, but it's all too easy to see John Sheppard in Terry Lennox, the charming, broken, green-eyed veteran, who is the lost emotional center of the novel that Marlowe nearly self-destructs trying to recover.
*Is is bad that I immediately thought Rodney:Calvin::John:Hobbes and desperately wanted an illustrated fusion/AU?
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However, if Tracer Bullet* is where your head goes, then mine went straight to Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, hands-down the slashiest classic noir novel ever written. Rodney may never be as coolly self-contained as Philip Marlowe, but it's all too easy to see John Sheppard in Terry Lennox, the charming, broken, green-eyed veteran, who is the lost emotional center of the novel that Marlowe nearly self-destructs trying to recover.
*Is is bad that I immediately thought Rodney:Calvin::John:Hobbes and desperately wanted an illustrated fusion/AU?