December days: Rufus
This is for Glovered. I wrote a huge, thought-through serious post about whether or not it's my place to write about Rufus at all, and about the way SPN treats characters who aren't white men. I'll spare you that post.
Doing some research for this post made me more fond of Rufus. At first, it was more like when you meet someone's new boyfriend, and you're happy for them, and you're nice, and you don't ask embarrassing questions even when you're really bored, but you just don't get the appeal. I feel that way about almost all minor SPN characters before season 8.
He's tough and has that twinkle in his eyes - which seems to be the basic characterization of most minor characters the writers couldn't be bothered to invest in. It's nice, there's potential, but SPN didn't do much with it, unless I missed something important (which seriously may be the case, there are episodes I only watched once, before getting into fandom). As it is, I was never that interested, particularly not compared to fascinatingly developed characters like the Winchersters. Seriously, the guy's cabin appeared in way more episodes than the man himself, based on Superwiki.
Like with most minor SPN characters, this can be significantly different for me in fic. Because bless fandom. I can't say I've read it a lot, or even seen much around, but taking that tough, charming guy and looking into his history and psychology, what motivates him, his relationship with Bobby, definitely has potential. I'd check out a show about Rufus and Bobby doing the monster hunting road trip thing, fighting about music, living in motel rooms, drinking and griping at each other. For sure. That could be *awesome*. Better still if Bobby were still in that wheel chair. Even a fic about the weird things the guys found while living in his cabin could be interesting.
After I wrote this I decided to check, and yeah, could hardly find any Rufus fic at all. And now that I've thought about it, I want them. Along with all the Meg and Missouri not out there. And John/Team Free Will. Have to admit, though, I am mostly interested in Sam and Dean in fic, though. It's weird, I'm used to being interested in fic about the most minor characters. For whatever reason, in SPN I love the main characters, and am pretty monogamous, on top of that.
Doing some research for this post made me more fond of Rufus. At first, it was more like when you meet someone's new boyfriend, and you're happy for them, and you're nice, and you don't ask embarrassing questions even when you're really bored, but you just don't get the appeal. I feel that way about almost all minor SPN characters before season 8.
He's tough and has that twinkle in his eyes - which seems to be the basic characterization of most minor characters the writers couldn't be bothered to invest in. It's nice, there's potential, but SPN didn't do much with it, unless I missed something important (which seriously may be the case, there are episodes I only watched once, before getting into fandom). As it is, I was never that interested, particularly not compared to fascinatingly developed characters like the Winchersters. Seriously, the guy's cabin appeared in way more episodes than the man himself, based on Superwiki.
Like with most minor SPN characters, this can be significantly different for me in fic. Because bless fandom. I can't say I've read it a lot, or even seen much around, but taking that tough, charming guy and looking into his history and psychology, what motivates him, his relationship with Bobby, definitely has potential. I'd check out a show about Rufus and Bobby doing the monster hunting road trip thing, fighting about music, living in motel rooms, drinking and griping at each other. For sure. That could be *awesome*. Better still if Bobby were still in that wheel chair. Even a fic about the weird things the guys found while living in his cabin could be interesting.
After I wrote this I decided to check, and yeah, could hardly find any Rufus fic at all. And now that I've thought about it, I want them. Along with all the Meg and Missouri not out there. And John/Team Free Will. Have to admit, though, I am mostly interested in Sam and Dean in fic, though. It's weird, I'm used to being interested in fic about the most minor characters. For whatever reason, in SPN I love the main characters, and am pretty monogamous, on top of that.