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fangrrl_squeesI know that I'm skirting the edge of badfic with Descendant. By some people's definition, the presence of original characters, alone, makes it a badfic by default.
I agonized about this a bit, particularly as my ongoing plotting suggests that my darlings might be getting Tarrant's nuts out of the fire at some future point1 and that got me thinking that maybe I shouldn't dismiss Dayna and Soolin so easily and, whoa nelly, how many characters do I have on board now?
'Scuse me. I get distracted easily.
Anyways. I agonized for a bit about committing the minor sin of putting original characters into a fanfic and then I realized that, dammit, I'm writing this for fun. It's for my amusement, and I don't seriously expect anyone else to read it - assuming I even put it online to share. So I shouldn't worry about other people's standards for good fanfic and just have fun. I know, such thoughts can be the beginning of a slippery slope into badfic, no matter how well-intentioned one might be but it's not a case of "that's a risk I'm willing to take", but rather "I don't give a damn about an outsiders' opinion"
There's a chance that Kara's Mary-Sue roots are showing through, and that's annoying me. But, darnit, if I scoured all the interesting bits off her, she'd be completely useless to the story, y'know? Granted, she's got some psi going on that's a bit funky, but I really do think that it's all a) plausible within the setting and b) somewhat redeemed by the fact that said psi-kewlness carries really bad (potentially fatal) side-effects. A Betazoid, she ain't.
There's an undeniable chance that Kara might be dead by the end of the story. Whether by Paranoid Avon, Manchurian Candidate Andriss, PO'd Sleer/Servalan (or even Captain Relt), or just by the aforementioned side-effects (oops, was that major blood vessel in your brain NOT supposed to pop?) I don't know, yet. Well, probably not by a Federation person, as they've got their reasons for wanting Kara alive, at least for a while. I'm tempted to have her brain blow out at a key moment but that, in itself, is a bit Mary-Sue-ish. Then again, if her cerebellum blows a gasket in a futile effort... then I've just descended into pathos. Never mind!
On a related note, I will be cheerfully ignoring the events of the post-TV audio play The Syndeton Experiment as it makes a whole bunch of my ideas redundant. Blech.
1 - Not a favorite character of mine, but he's such a fab foil for Avon2.
2 - No, not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter.
I agonized about this a bit, particularly as my ongoing plotting suggests that my darlings might be getting Tarrant's nuts out of the fire at some future point1 and that got me thinking that maybe I shouldn't dismiss Dayna and Soolin so easily and, whoa nelly, how many characters do I have on board now?
'Scuse me. I get distracted easily.
Anyways. I agonized for a bit about committing the minor sin of putting original characters into a fanfic and then I realized that, dammit, I'm writing this for fun. It's for my amusement, and I don't seriously expect anyone else to read it - assuming I even put it online to share. So I shouldn't worry about other people's standards for good fanfic and just have fun. I know, such thoughts can be the beginning of a slippery slope into badfic, no matter how well-intentioned one might be but it's not a case of "that's a risk I'm willing to take", but rather "I don't give a damn about an outsiders' opinion"
There's a chance that Kara's Mary-Sue roots are showing through, and that's annoying me. But, darnit, if I scoured all the interesting bits off her, she'd be completely useless to the story, y'know? Granted, she's got some psi going on that's a bit funky, but I really do think that it's all a) plausible within the setting and b) somewhat redeemed by the fact that said psi-kewlness carries really bad (potentially fatal) side-effects. A Betazoid, she ain't.
There's an undeniable chance that Kara might be dead by the end of the story. Whether by Paranoid Avon, Manchurian Candidate Andriss, PO'd Sleer/Servalan (or even Captain Relt), or just by the aforementioned side-effects (oops, was that major blood vessel in your brain NOT supposed to pop?) I don't know, yet. Well, probably not by a Federation person, as they've got their reasons for wanting Kara alive, at least for a while. I'm tempted to have her brain blow out at a key moment but that, in itself, is a bit Mary-Sue-ish. Then again, if her cerebellum blows a gasket in a futile effort... then I've just descended into pathos. Never mind!
On a related note, I will be cheerfully ignoring the events of the post-TV audio play The Syndeton Experiment as it makes a whole bunch of my ideas redundant. Blech.
1 - Not a favorite character of mine, but he's such a fab foil for Avon2.
2 - No, not like that. Get your mind out of the gutter.
