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This week's fannish5: What five characters would you like to see get more attention in fan fiction?

(In the spirit of the meme, I won't list favourites of mine whom I always love reading more of but who already have ample fanfic devoted to them, so, no Petrellis here. Or Elizabeth Swann.)



1.) John Locke, Lost. There's still so little fanfic, at least that I could find, and three years onwards, he's still the most intriguing character on that show to me, so, a pox on the age-ism. (Can't be Locke's, err, less than stable emotional state, because have you looked at the other characters who do get written about?)

2.) Audrey Hanson, Heroes. Audrey was a semi-regular during the first half of season 1, a female character far better written than poor Niki who was a regular during the same time, and I was so happy to see her back in the last but one episode, no matter how briefly. She's no one's love interest, she's on the show because she's FBI, doing her job (hunting down a serial killer). Why isn't there more Audrey fic? (Note to self: stop whining and write about Audrey next time the Heroes muse strikes.)

3) Elizabeth Lochley, Babylon 5. Resented at the time because she replaced Ivanova by much of fandom, but I liked Lochley. Both during the fifth season of B5 and on Crusade. I'd like to see some exploration as to why she made the choices she did before appearing on the show (notably during the Earth Civil War - given the way s4 presents Sheridan as so utterly and completely in the right and the only logical choice in that confict, this would be a great opportunity to look at the other side through shades of grey), her backstory with Zoe, her backstory with Bester, and I absolutely want to see some interaction between her and Delenn during the show (other than those two scenes we got). The relationship with Garibaldi on the show was great, more of that would be even better.

4) Max Eilerson, Crusade. Because there is little enough Crusade fanfic out there, and most of what does exist is mostly Galen/romance partner of choice. Unabashedly playing favourites here, I want more Max!

5) Abigail Brand, Astonishing X-Men. Yours truly is only waiting for the current arc to conclude, but that's no reason why the rest of you shouldn't be writing my favourite among the characters Joss newly created for the X-Men verse. She's ruthless, she exploits Our Heroes for what she thinks is the greater good, and she has great snarky banter with Hank McCoy. What's not to like?

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One of the more annoying things about the way the media presented the restart of Dr. Who back in 2005 was the claim that Rose was the first companion to do something other than scream. As if. Behold a a vid showcasing some of the kick-ass ladies who went there first: Sarah Jane, Leela, Romana (both regenerations), Nyssa, Tegan and Ace:


Sisterhood

Heroes and Dr. Who fanfic recs

Sometimes, fanfic is just so good it takes your breath away.

The Story Everyone Knows is a Heroes/Sandman crossover. Given that we have a character who canonically has visionary dreams, it was only a matter of time, I suppose, but I never expected the result to be so stunning. Sandman on the one hand is a very easy for crossovers, given the very concept, but on the other hand, it's fiendishly difficult to capture what Neil Gaiman does with language, myths and ideas. sparrowette, in this story set during Peter's coma between Fallout and Godsend, pulls it off with incredible style, as she lets him encounter Death, Matthew, Cain and Abel, Eve, Lucien, the Corinthian and finally Dream himself. I'm still flailing.

Birds is the story of Charlie, before, during and after Hiro. Charlie was one of the most poignant and charming one-shot characters I encountered in a show, and this portrait both captures her and fleshes her out. Lovely.


Dr. Who

Two stories from writes I'm very familiar with in other fandoms:

Falling by taraljc presents Lucy Saxon between The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords; it's a wonderful, chillingly plausible portrait.

Ulysses by rheanna27 is a stunning AU resulting from two characters - John Smith and Martha Jones - making different choices in Family of Blood. Like the best AUs, it illuminates something about the characters in canon, and I love it.