Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Five

5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?

The Quark incident in Let it Be was the only time it happend in just that way, and I let it happen because having Quark as a foil to make sarcastic comments was far better than to write Julian moping on his own, or Ezri brooding on her own. Otherwise, as far as fanfic is concerned, characters tend to show up as planned, though I'm not above mini cameos to amuse myself, such as Connor turning up at the very end of my Angel/Six Feet Under crossover. It made for a nice concluding line and gag. Otoh I posted that story as a work in progress which I don't do often, and one of my readers - I believe it was ffutures - asked whether the fact a season 4 guest star in Six Feet Under was played by Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Dawn on BTVS, would come into play after the first or so installment. I hadn't originally planned to include Dawn (or use the Celeste gag), but the idea seemed irresitable, and it offered some great character moments for David Fisher and an ironic one for Wesley to boot. So basically Dawn (fond of her as I am) didn't insert herself, someone else did it for her!

Otherwise, characters in fanfic basically wait their turn. :)



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Merlin and X-Men links

Merlin:

Turn and Face the Strange: post season 3 Gwen pov, in transition to season 4. The other day I was hit by a desire to read stories on Gwen where we leave her in s3, and lo and behold, luck was with me and I found this. Great take on Gwen, her changing position in Camelot and the effect this has on both servants and knights (especially the new ones), but what really stands out are the scenes between Gwen and Uther, one in particular. Speaking as someone who thought the Gwen versus Uther confrontation in season 3 was one of the best scenes of the season (and such a great contrast to the last time she was brought in front of him early in season 1, I found this fanfiction take on Gwen and Uther encounters post s3 just as good, and that's saying something.

X-Men:

Inertia: historically, there were months between the missiles in Turkey and the Cuba missile crisis. So what did Charles, Erik and the fledgling X-folk do in the meantime? :)


Closure: in which Erik and Raven talk post-movie about what Charles did and didn't do.