Squicky. (SG-1 Rant)
My squick factor tends to run very high and I enjoy all manner of debauchery in fic. But there are certain things that are just repulsive to me in stories- RPF for example, underage sex for another (and to clarify this: I don't have a problem with underage people having sex, I just don't want to read it). But those are just my hangups, if other folks enjoy them- more power to them!
I don't even have a problem with consensual relationships/sex between related adults (incest). If reproduction is taken out of that equation (ie two brothers), incest is merely a conditioned social taboo and I am all about breaking conditioned social taboos.
That being said- there are still things that need to be taken into consideration when writing in a fandom with 10+ years of canon characterization to draw from. Which is exactly that: canon characterization. There is a major difference between breaking social taboos and breaking characterization.
The thing that prompted me to write this? Okay here goes...
Jack O'Neill adores kids- that's canon. He also has a protective and nurturing relationship with Cassie Fraser- a sort of surrogant father-figure if you will. And, unless Jack is a closet pedophile that we don't know about, he, meaning the character of Jack O'Neill, would never look at her in a romantic way.
Now let's cut to Clone!Jack. Clone!Jack who until the grand reveal believed he was for all intents and purposes the real Jack just deaged. He had all the same memories, all the same emotions, all the same everything. So there simply no way, no how that he would ever look at Cassie in a romantic way for all the same reasons Jack wouldn't. I'm not saying that it would be wrong for his teenaged self to have some sort of a romantic/sexual relationship with a teenaged Cassie- just that he wouldn't.
Break all the social conditioning you want- but don't break the characters in the process.
/rant
I don't even have a problem with consensual relationships/sex between related adults (incest). If reproduction is taken out of that equation (ie two brothers), incest is merely a conditioned social taboo and I am all about breaking conditioned social taboos.
That being said- there are still things that need to be taken into consideration when writing in a fandom with 10+ years of canon characterization to draw from. Which is exactly that: canon characterization. There is a major difference between breaking social taboos and breaking characterization.
The thing that prompted me to write this? Okay here goes...
Jack O'Neill adores kids- that's canon. He also has a protective and nurturing relationship with Cassie Fraser- a sort of surrogant father-figure if you will. And, unless Jack is a closet pedophile that we don't know about, he, meaning the character of Jack O'Neill, would never look at her in a romantic way.
Now let's cut to Clone!Jack. Clone!Jack who until the grand reveal believed he was for all intents and purposes the real Jack just deaged. He had all the same memories, all the same emotions, all the same everything. So there simply no way, no how that he would ever look at Cassie in a romantic way for all the same reasons Jack wouldn't. I'm not saying that it would be wrong for his teenaged self to have some sort of a romantic/sexual relationship with a teenaged Cassie- just that he wouldn't.
Break all the social conditioning you want- but don't break the characters in the process.
/rant