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seriousficSo I finally got that so-long-on-hiatus-you-probably-forgot-it-exists Cara fic dead and buried. A little betaing and you'll be able to find out what happens to Cara, Dahlia, Kahlan, Triana, Jagang, and Richard as well. And I've just about done conceptualizing an weird hybrid between original short story and LotS fic, with some of the characters coming to our world and all kinds of metafictional shenanigans happening. It's kinda cool/difficult to get away from the established characterization and have to reintroduce characters for the first time or whatever. Like with Cara, there's this very definitive moment I have with her that made its way into Emotion is the glove into which pain slips its hand, where Cara seduces this village girl. The problem there being that I may be a prude, but it seems a little weird to introduce a character with a sex scene. So, using the conceit that the first part of the book is a character in the real world reading this cheesy fantasy novel introducing our heroes, he comes to this sex scene while he's on the bus and is just like "yeah, not reading this when I can hear two different babies crying" and skips ahead to the ~belt buckling~.
Another thing is that writing the story as would-be profic lets me mod the characters a little bit. Like Kahlan I'm mixing with bits of Quorra's Genki Girlness to give her more of a contrast with Cara, who in this world looks like Tura Satana and has a bit of diamond superpower instead of Agiels (yes, I'm shamelessly stealing Emma Frost's metaphor. Deal with it). And Richard is a bit more Seth Rogen-y than "abs and justice!", so hopefully people other than the femslashers will root for Cara and Kahlan to get together with him being a bit more of a schlub (in that he's introduced getting high and asking Cara to get him some medieval equivalent of chips).
Favorite bit thus far: when Cara and Kahlan finally track down the Terry Goodkind figure in the real world, not only are they trying to get answers about how come they're not in Kansas anymore, but Kahlan is going off on him about Richard's fantasy-novel endowment. "There is no reason for a penis to be twelve inches! None!"
Speaking of LotS,
Another thing is that writing the story as would-be profic lets me mod the characters a little bit. Like Kahlan I'm mixing with bits of Quorra's Genki Girlness to give her more of a contrast with Cara, who in this world looks like Tura Satana and has a bit of diamond superpower instead of Agiels (yes, I'm shamelessly stealing Emma Frost's metaphor. Deal with it). And Richard is a bit more Seth Rogen-y than "abs and justice!", so hopefully people other than the femslashers will root for Cara and Kahlan to get together with him being a bit more of a schlub (in that he's introduced getting high and asking Cara to get him some medieval equivalent of chips).
Favorite bit thus far: when Cara and Kahlan finally track down the Terry Goodkind figure in the real world, not only are they trying to get answers about how come they're not in Kansas anymore, but Kahlan is going off on him about Richard's fantasy-novel endowment. "There is no reason for a penis to be twelve inches! None!"
Speaking of LotS,
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Date: 2011-03-02 02:37 am (UTC)ETA: it's sad that I flailed so hard on the fact that there was a J/A icon in this thread. LOOOOL
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Date: 2011-03-04 04:37 am (UTC)Love yours as well ;3
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These were amazing. I have to agree, Zedd is prob the best up there.
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Date: 2011-03-16 06:17 am (UTC).....and not even ironically. I just love them!
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