A Tale of Two Brothers
So I Have Been Thinking: My main obstacle with with writing Thor fic is that I don't really feel any of the other characters except maybe Frigga. No matter how close they are, the Thor/Loki relationship cannot happen in a vacuum. But I don't have the mental fortitude to forage my way around Marvel canon to know their Asgard and Avenger years, nevermind Loki's numerous hellspawns. So there are character depth issues here because...as important as the relationship is, it's not what defines Thor or Loki. There has to be more.
I just...can't seem to find a backstory for the both of them. And that bothers me, because I'm usually good at this sort of things. Usually I jump at this kind of opportunity, really. For Mycroft/Sherlock I conjured up a whole organization called Diogenes in the style of MI7 in order to provide character depth to Mycroft (because, let's face it, I find John very tricky to write from Sherlock's end). There was also the whole Holmes family history, which, in my head at least, provided motivations and development for both Mycroft has a character and his relationship with Sherlock.
With Thor and Loki, however, the problem seems to be that I know enough of the Norse mythology (arguably the ultimate-canon, though YMMV) AND Marvel-verse canons (yes, plural) to be unable to ignore them; yet at the same time I don't know nearly enough of them to comfortably navigate my way through them.
In the same vein of thought, I kind of feel bad about fulfilling norsekink prompts, because my fills (or would-be fills) are so...short. Alas, that's the only thing I'm halfway decent at, writing vignettes. (Well that and coming up with twisted plots.)
I just...can't seem to find a backstory for the both of them. And that bothers me, because I'm usually good at this sort of things. Usually I jump at this kind of opportunity, really. For Mycroft/Sherlock I conjured up a whole organization called Diogenes in the style of MI7 in order to provide character depth to Mycroft (because, let's face it, I find John very tricky to write from Sherlock's end). There was also the whole Holmes family history, which, in my head at least, provided motivations and development for both Mycroft has a character and his relationship with Sherlock.
With Thor and Loki, however, the problem seems to be that I know enough of the Norse mythology (arguably the ultimate-canon, though YMMV) AND Marvel-verse canons (yes, plural) to be unable to ignore them; yet at the same time I don't know nearly enough of them to comfortably navigate my way through them.
In the same vein of thought, I kind of feel bad about fulfilling norsekink prompts, because my fills (or would-be fills) are so...short. Alas, that's the only thing I'm halfway decent at, writing vignettes. (Well that and coming up with twisted plots.)