She Is The Best Thing That's Ever Been Mine
Hey chickens. Haven't had much to post about in a couple of days, and I find that my face looks much more like this :/ when I have no comments to look forward to. :/ I've been kind of down lately, but it's not for any specific reason, so I kind of feel like I'm just whining if I'm posting just to be like, I'm Sad, or whatever, because I have no *reason* for it.
Anyway...
So, I was talking to sugarpromises last week, and I thought this was kind of an interesting thing to kvetch about, wanted to see what you all had to say. She posed the question in her journal, if you would make a character OOC (out-of-character) in a fic if it was to serve your plotty purposes. I like to think that I do not, but then again, I am quite comfortable making up my own canon and living in that world. (I haven't done this so much lately, unless you count John/Taylor and RPF is a whole other ball of wax).
I'm just cutting and pasting some of my own comments from our conversation and re-working them, just so I can kind of get this idea out within my lunchbreak.
When I wrote a lot of UC couples, like Cruz/Lulu and Julie/Santiago (characters who had never met or never had scenes together, had nothing to go off of), I had to create a series of scenarios that would force them to interact, and thus a plot was born. But I still try to make it something that would make sense, where would these people cross paths.
The story where I've struggled with this the most is Miles To Go Before I Sleep, which I've started and abandoned in at least four different versions, the latest of which is lingering around 20k words. And, because I had to change so much about these characters, that's probably why I struggle with it so much (it's been rolling around for almost four years now).
So, it is my Veronica Mars/FNL crossover, pairing Veronica with Billy Riggins, who may be the exact opposite, on paper of *anything* she would ever look for in a guy. Something about them clicked in my mind during s3 of VM and s1 of FNL, and it pretty much never let go. But how would they work as a couple? First I had to get them in the same place at the same time, and as he will probably never move, I packed Veronica off to Texas. And she would have to go there for a very specific reason, so I had to futz with some VM canon- I picked a stopping point and just moved on from there. So if you took the Veronica from Not Pictured, right up until Keith woke up and came out of his bedroom, with everything she had been through, that was my Veronica in that story. And, I believe *if* her father had died in the plane crash, she would have become a very different person and would have gone places and allowed things into her life that she wouldn't have otherwise.
So...in some ways, I guess she behaves uncharacteristically in that story, but I think her character would change, given the circumstances I put her through.
Same goes for Billy. I love him, and affectionately title him as The World's Most Well Meaning Fuck-Up, but I think if he had a different kind of person in his life (though I loved where his canon relationship eventually went on the show) that it would force him to be a different [better] man.
And then, here's another question for you...like, what do you consider to be 'cheating'? For instance, as I was walking to work today, Mine was playing on my iPod, and I got a crazy runaway fantasy idea of John and Taylor, as they are in empressearwig's Let's All Pack Up And Move This Year 'verse, some time after they'd had Shiri (and a son named Miles), with John surprising Taylor on stage on her 30th birthday, singing the last verse. It's a lovely, fluffy, happy, darling, too-good-to-be-true image. I will probably never write it, because it does feel too-good-to-be-true though we would all die and jump up and down screaming if it ever really happened.
BUT, I don't think that image of John and Taylor, coming from me, would surprise any of you who know me fairly well. Or writing an over-the-top fairy tale ending for Julie and Santiago in Love Story. Like, you all know me, you know I'm crazy about these couples and they just go together in my mind. Like, I feel like I've done all the legwork to get them to 'happy ending' in my mind and I haven't 'cheated them forward'. (Am I making any sense?) I mean, we all dash off little drabbles of perfect futures when we need some cheering up (or I do, at least).
And those are couples that I love madly. Here's an example- Tim/Julie, which I normally can't stand and am pretty wary of any fic headlining this couple. They are the stars of one of my favorite FNL fics, In The Skin Of A Lion, because she really took the time to make their happy ending earned and true. It all felt 100% authentic, nothing cheated about it.
So, um...what do you guys think? How much are you willing to cheat a happy ending?
Anyway...
So, I was talking to sugarpromises last week, and I thought this was kind of an interesting thing to kvetch about, wanted to see what you all had to say. She posed the question in her journal, if you would make a character OOC (out-of-character) in a fic if it was to serve your plotty purposes. I like to think that I do not, but then again, I am quite comfortable making up my own canon and living in that world. (I haven't done this so much lately, unless you count John/Taylor and RPF is a whole other ball of wax).
I'm just cutting and pasting some of my own comments from our conversation and re-working them, just so I can kind of get this idea out within my lunchbreak.
When I wrote a lot of UC couples, like Cruz/Lulu and Julie/Santiago (characters who had never met or never had scenes together, had nothing to go off of), I had to create a series of scenarios that would force them to interact, and thus a plot was born. But I still try to make it something that would make sense, where would these people cross paths.
The story where I've struggled with this the most is Miles To Go Before I Sleep, which I've started and abandoned in at least four different versions, the latest of which is lingering around 20k words. And, because I had to change so much about these characters, that's probably why I struggle with it so much (it's been rolling around for almost four years now).
So, it is my Veronica Mars/FNL crossover, pairing Veronica with Billy Riggins, who may be the exact opposite, on paper of *anything* she would ever look for in a guy. Something about them clicked in my mind during s3 of VM and s1 of FNL, and it pretty much never let go. But how would they work as a couple? First I had to get them in the same place at the same time, and as he will probably never move, I packed Veronica off to Texas. And she would have to go there for a very specific reason, so I had to futz with some VM canon- I picked a stopping point and just moved on from there. So if you took the Veronica from Not Pictured, right up until Keith woke up and came out of his bedroom, with everything she had been through, that was my Veronica in that story. And, I believe *if* her father had died in the plane crash, she would have become a very different person and would have gone places and allowed things into her life that she wouldn't have otherwise.
So...in some ways, I guess she behaves uncharacteristically in that story, but I think her character would change, given the circumstances I put her through.
Same goes for Billy. I love him, and affectionately title him as The World's Most Well Meaning Fuck-Up, but I think if he had a different kind of person in his life (though I loved where his canon relationship eventually went on the show) that it would force him to be a different [better] man.
And then, here's another question for you...like, what do you consider to be 'cheating'? For instance, as I was walking to work today, Mine was playing on my iPod, and I got a crazy runaway fantasy idea of John and Taylor, as they are in empressearwig's Let's All Pack Up And Move This Year 'verse, some time after they'd had Shiri (and a son named Miles), with John surprising Taylor on stage on her 30th birthday, singing the last verse. It's a lovely, fluffy, happy, darling, too-good-to-be-true image. I will probably never write it, because it does feel too-good-to-be-true though we would all die and jump up and down screaming if it ever really happened.
BUT, I don't think that image of John and Taylor, coming from me, would surprise any of you who know me fairly well. Or writing an over-the-top fairy tale ending for Julie and Santiago in Love Story. Like, you all know me, you know I'm crazy about these couples and they just go together in my mind. Like, I feel like I've done all the legwork to get them to 'happy ending' in my mind and I haven't 'cheated them forward'. (Am I making any sense?) I mean, we all dash off little drabbles of perfect futures when we need some cheering up (or I do, at least).
And those are couples that I love madly. Here's an example- Tim/Julie, which I normally can't stand and am pretty wary of any fic headlining this couple. They are the stars of one of my favorite FNL fics, In The Skin Of A Lion, because she really took the time to make their happy ending earned and true. It all felt 100% authentic, nothing cheated about it.
So, um...what do you guys think? How much are you willing to cheat a happy ending?