Plotting. Planning. Scheming. Freaking myself out. Other fun things.

[dognmonkeyshow]

Now that the squeeing/excitement/frothing backlash of S4 is over, I've been focusing on planning out my next fic. Instead of working on the Sherlock x Justified crossover I've been planning since November 2014, a former fic idea has risen from the dead, re-animated by TFP.

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[dognmonkeyshow]

The issue with the sex scenes is that they're important to the story because they have an impact on how Mycroft thinks of himself. There are a number of events in the story that cause him to question his assumptions about himself, so they need to stay in. That said, they're not going to be particularly graphic and there'll be only one or two in what is probably going to be a pretty substantially-sized story. But writing canon male character/original female character is kind of like asking to be raked over the coals, set on fire, then pissed on repeatedly, hence my trepidation above and beyond my consternation at putting myself in a situation where I feel the need to write sex scenes.

As to Rudy...yes, he is an interesting little tidbit for Moffat to give us. Yes, Rudy will still be a (very closeted) cross-dresser, and yes this will be a bone of contention between him and Mycroft.

Without getting too much into the weeds about the plot, Mycroft is faced with a dilemma: how to present himself as more conventional than he is. While I can't speak for American practice, the British security services have always demanded anyone with any association with the SIS to have (on the surface, at least) a scrupulously conventional life and background. Anything in your life that might cause any kind of public consternation (even legal things, like adultery) was a black mark against you because the nation's many enemies could use that as leverage to blackmail you, compromise you, and turn you. People were vetted very, very carefully, and Mycroft knows that questions will be asked about him that he needs to manufacture believable, appropriate answers to.

As to Rudy and espionage (yay! *ahem* sorry), he is very much a man of the Cold War (which I'm old enough to remember well, for my sins), which has a tremendous affect on his viewpoint. The story takes place in 1992-1993, only three years after the Berlin Wall fell and in the middle of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the beginning of the Yugoslavia crisis/civil war. This was a tremendously challenging time for foreign policy and intelligence services in Western countries. They kind of didn't know what to do; they were in a state of flux and no one knew exactly what the future was, what they were supposed to be working towards. But as Rudy says to Mycroft in one scene, "Nothing changes more slowly than people's attitudes," and this reality is one of the drivers of the plot.

So much for not getting into the weeds. ;)

As to Sherlock, he's only 15 here, and just starting to show signs of his future as the man we see at the beginning of S1. There will be family drama, and exploration of the fall-out from Eurus' actions at Musgrave and the sedimentary layers of lies suffocating the family because of it. Fun times!

[donutgirl]

it certainly sounds like you have a good grip on the story already! hooray for fruitfal S4 plotbunnies, whatever other flaws it might have.

[dognmonkeyshow]

As usual, once my brain engages with a story, all sorts of craziness ensues. I'd have liked to get through this without five different convoluted plotlines, but I don't think that's going to happen.

And yes, one thing I can say for TFP was it revved up the old plotbunny breeder.