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"In the Midst of Death" (Drabble, fandom will be made clear)

Mar 07, 2013 19:39

Title: In the Midst of Death
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Will be made clear.
Pairing: None.
Rating: G.
Warning: Canonical character death
Word Count: 100
Summary: Sometimes a different POV changes everything ( Read more... )

author: gardnerhill, warning: character death, fandom: disney

Comments 13

goldvermilion87 March 8 2013, 03:44:53 UTC

I'm torn between awe at this idea (not to mention execution!) and wibblyness over this particular character death. This is what fanfiction is meant to be! Wow!)

(PS: Do you want a fandom tag, or should I just leave it be?)

(PPS: I know I tend to overdo exclamation points, but I can't help it here!)

gardnerhill March 8 2013, 06:07:09 UTC

"Fandom: disney" should do it - I tried to add that one myself.

I've been pondering the reasons for that pivotal film scene for a while: Why would a hunter go after a doe at the end of winter - well past the season, when the deer are gaunt and antlerless - unless his own family's survival depended on it?

goldvermilion87 March 8 2013, 06:16:00 UTC

I (or eanor) have to add the tags -- I made it that way so I could make sure everything stayed standard.

I'd never thought about the death in practical terms. I feel like the moviemakers are going for a senseless killing, but I like the explanation, and how much a different perspective changes the scenario.

gardnerhill March 8 2013, 06:24:41 UTC

When I was 13, I dreamed about JAWS - from the shark's point of view. (Yes, I've always been a bit odd.)

litlover12 March 8 2013, 04:03:58 UTC

Oh good heavens. I JUST realized (after about three reads) which fandom this was. Whoa. A brilliant idea, and very well done!

gardnerhill March 8 2013, 06:08:13 UTC

Thanks so much.

lindahoyland March 8 2013, 04:42:39 UTC

This is very cleverly done. It took me a while to guess.Am I right to think Disney and the deer's POV?

gardnerhill March 8 2013, 06:14:49 UTC

Disney, yes - but the hunter's POV.

A sport or trophy hunter wouldn't kill a deer at the end of winter (they're gaunt and have no antlers), but more likely to be a desperate subsistence hunter trying to keep his family alive.

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gardnerhill March 10 2013, 18:09:50 UTC

Thanks. That was the intention - the death of a zebra is a tragedy to Badru the zebra's foal, but a relief to Simba's family.

dreamflower02 March 8 2013, 11:22:17 UTC

Most certainly the POV makes the difference! When you shift into a different headspace it creates so much wider a world. It's why I love POV gapfillers.

I blinked, and read it twice before I guessed the fandom--then I saw the tag and was sure of it.

As a young child I had a fixation on fawns. I had three imaginary ones as pets, named Bobo and Mabel (from a book called Little Lost Bobo. The third one, of course, was named after the title character in this fandom, LOL!

gardnerhill March 10 2013, 18:13:00 UTC

I read the book BAMBI as a kid, and didn't see the film until I was a teenager (these were the days before VCRs, when you had to wait 7 years for a Disney film to be re-shown in a theater) - and the hunting scene in the book was a freakin' bloodbath compared to one neat little offscreen gunshot in the film, so I wasn't nearly as traumatized as a lot of other kids were.

And I've always been interested in other POVs - when I was a teen I dreamed about the movie JAWS from the shark's POV.