Communion

[septemberoses]

Title: Communion
Author: septemberoses
Fandom: True Blood
Pairing: Godric/(Eric)
Word count: 3200
Rating: PGish (except for the bit with Eric) for blasphemy, threat, impure thoughts, Mary Sue (Godric's next door neighbor in this earlier fic.)
Summary: Godric meets a nice Christian boy for a chat about faith, chess, natural fabrics and repentance

Comments

[septemberoses]

As fic writers we all have our own, disparate viewpoints for the characters, that don't even necessarily match up with "canon." Eric to me is pretty straightforward, and he's fun to write because he's all about money, rage, and fucking (in a good way). Godric, as I said, is more complex in his thinking ... he's a bit daft and he's always thinking about things around him and remembering other things from the past. At the same time -- yes, he's completely deadly. He hasn't forgotten that in his old age. When I'm having fun with him, he's doing something completely peculiar, like baking a cake. Because he's ancient and it doesn't register to him that he's got to keep up vampire appearances. He's past that.

Well, you can READ and ENJOY the kidnap fics, but if you're like me then you have to go back and forget them. Did you watch the movie? En forelskelse? Mmmmmm. Please do go back and read the Carsten/Fangtasia, I am very fond of those stories as a writer.

That part of "Ropes" was actually meant to be uplifting, again, in that old-married-couple way. They've been through this many times before, and they're still together. Eric's behavior, in its own utterly fucked up way, is all about love.

[bnharrison]

I've read all the Carsten stories at this point. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I read the description on IMDB so I'd have an idea of his character. I plan to see the movie as soon as I can find it.

I understand why you feel the need to work around the kidnap fics for the sake of continuing to write in that universe, but if it were me--and it has been me, in the past--part of the fun is exploring the way the relationship knits itself back together into something stronger and infinitely more fucked up than before.

I've had a Eric/Godric story in my head for weeks now and it's making me seriously reconsider activating my fannish/fic journal again--this is my profic journal, and I put fandom aside for a year to concentrate on my novel, but now revisions are slogging me down and True Blood has rekindled that old fannish need to stamp my mark on the canon. This is probably your fault too, in part. Dammit.

[septemberoses]

I checked and -- squeee! -- it's up on Youtube right now, it gets taken down all the time, and it even has subtitles, which it usually doesn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-T2v_cIz4Y

That's part one, the whole thing's only 30ish minutes on. Allan Hyde is delectable, and there's a sex scene that is, as they say, UNF.

Oh, I wish you would write your story, I'd love some more writers in the fandom ... hard to get folks excited about writing a character they killed off after five episodes. although there are plenty of readers. I'll cheerfully accept the blame for your interest in TB fanfic. Also, IMO (although I'm not a novelist) writing fanfic is a lovely break from "job" writing.