Meme! Because I like talking about my fics....

[persephone_kore]

Contracted from all sorts of people....

If there is any question you would like to ask me about any one of my fics, then go ahead! What I meant by a particular line, why I chose that characterisation, what I was listening to as I wrote, what crack I was taking and where you can get some... anything. Anything you might like to know about how I wrote a fic, I shall do my best to answer.

Special PK edit: And if I don't know, I shall ask the relevant cowriter.

I'll also try to do better with this than I did with the fic commentary meme. I still owe somebody or other commentary on "Tapestry of Fire," I think, and possibly on a scene or two of "Tea Leaves."

Comments

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Okay...why Proteus? Not the most common character for your first fic. ;)

He grabbed my brain!

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

As I think I've mentioned before, I hadn't ever really planned to join in the writing of fanfic. Still, I'd always tended to dream up alternate endings (or *cough* try to imagine myself or a representative into stories... or, perhaps more interestingly, wish I could imagine the whole story very thoroughly from the point of view of each character) and so on, and apparently hanging around #subcafe affected my mindset.

I had gotten interested in the Muir Island set -- well, Rahne and Moira, largely; I'm not sure how much I knew about Excalibur. Some of this was identification with or admiration for things other than actual personality -- Rahne being a teenage Christian girl, Moira being a genius scientist, both being Scottish (which I'm not, but a fair number of ancestors on both sides of the family were) -- oh, and I grew up cheering for a university whose mascot was the Wolfpack. ;) I enjoyed reading X-Factor while PAD had it, too, at least for a while. (Actually, those were my introduction to Rahne -- I hadn't seen much of New Mutants. Go figure.)

And then, the Proteus story fascinated me -- you know me, there's the whole lost potential thing. ...Um, and he was cute, in human form, in the one panel I saw of him as a teen/adult (not sure). Granted that part was rather disturbing, as I think it was his corpse.

Anyway, it wasn't that I decided my first fanfic should be about Proteus so much as that the first idea I decided I really had to write was about him. I really liked the notion of playing with the idea his powers could do that -- which may or may not be reasonable given some people's speculation about line-of-sight, but I don't think anybody complained -- and yeah, I knew that curing Legacy and bringing characters (especially Illyana) back from the dead were cliches, but I figured this was an adequately different way. And the imagery -- "twirling, caressing flames that dance in the heart of a newborn star," and a general mental picture of dazzling light-strands and swirls and fire shot through black -- really got to me. I still remember sitting in the computer lab typing the whole thing up rather urgently into a Yahoo mail draft.