For Nagasvoice--Liking Villains and Underdogs

[gehayi]

nagasvoice said, "I love your take on underdogs and "bad guys" who aren't given a fair shake in mainstream genre fiction. You're always looking for the other side's story behind the winner's story. I'd love to hear you came to that viewpoint

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Re: This makes so much sense

[gehayi]

You're welcome!

My desire to know the story that wasn't being told drove my parents and teachers crazy. (My parents had problems anyway, as I was the kind of kid who asked "what if" and "why" as automatically as breathing. Most of my teachers, with the exception of two or three, thought that I should just accept the stories as written and stop fretting about the bits that were left out.)

I wasn't in the fandom enough to know for sure all the Highlander details on Methos

I didn't even know you were IN the fandom! You know, I'll always retain a fondness for Highlander fandom. There's nothing like a fandom full of history geeks to train a writer to pay attention to even the smallest details of both canonical and real life history. The plethora of casual, sloppy, "what difference does it make?" anachronisms in HP fandom still dumbfounds me; it's completely alien to everything that I learned from HL fans.

As for what you understand about Peter P., I always find that refreshing. It makes so much *sense*, the way you write him.Thank

[cygna_hime]

I didn't want more stories about Peter Pan, but stories about James Hook--who he was, how he'd become a pirate, his adventures, how he'd come to hate Peter so...

Oh, I so very much agree. He gets dozens and dozens of throwaway lines spent on him, and each one has a story. Why was his blood that funny color? What made him 'the only man the Sea-Cook feared'? Besides, public-school villains are fun.

Nothing to say other than that, except an absolute word.

[gehayi]

You just hit on two things that I wanted to know about so badly!

Besides, public-school villains are fun.

They are!

Honestly, Hook could have been the center of a fair number of books, himself.

now there's a whole series of other viewpoints!

[cygna_hime]

I can imagine a whole series of stories, similar to the retells of fairytales.
After al, they made a book and musical out of Wicked, the witch that Dorothy kills in Oz. It was interesting, certainly, but I didn't like the trailing off ending. I thought Wicked deserved something better. The way she died in Wizard of Oz is actually pretty dramatic!
And yes, Hook would make a great alternative story!

[gehayi]

I figure if you can get inside a canon and get to know it backwards as well as forwards it's that much more complicated and fun.

Oh, yes. Knowing canon backwards and forwards can be great. Not to mention, as you said, tons of complicated fun.

And I have to admit that your sporkings are what made me decide that Peter was more than he seemed and deserved fanbrat valuing.

My sporkings? How did they do that? I'm glad they did...I'm just a trifle baffled.

(I think I like Ginny now too because of how often she's bashed.)I'm torn when it comes to Ginny. I don't like her behavior in HBP (or Hermione's, come to that--I'm an equal opportunity loather when it comes to Book 6), but I do get tired of people slamming her for being a slut for the unpardonable crime of dating three boys in two years. I knew girls in high school who dated three boys in two months. Two weeks, even. And they weren't sluts, either. They were just ordinary teenagers