Check In #4

[rubytuesday5681]

This is an optional activity, with no deadlines. Answer now, answer later, or skip it completely.


Hopefully by now everyone has had a chance to at least start thinking about what they want to create in their fanwork, and ideally, many of us have gotten started. If you have gotten started and you're willing to share a little about what you've done so far, please take a look at Check In #3 if you haven't done so already.

This check-in is about characters. Just about every fanwork has at least some focus on characters. Obviously, stories (fic and podfic) are about our beloved bandom characters, art depicts these characters visually, and mixes often communicate one character's thoughts or ideas or are themed around what a certain pairing's relationship might be like.

Tell us about the characters that your big bang focuses on. Are they your favorite characters in bandom? What made you decide to focus on them? If your fanwork is an AU of some kind, what is the background of the characters in your fanwork's universe? If your fanwork has a pairing in it, tell us why you chose that pairing. What is it about that pairing that appeals to you? Share with us your thoughts and feelings about the characters around which your fanwork centers.

Comments

doctorkilljoy

[(Anonymous)]

So I came up with this story idea months ago, and decided to work on it for my BBB. This is my first one and it's going better than I expected in word count. I'm not so sure about character development to be honest.

See this was always going to be Grant Morrison/Frank Iero/Gerard Way, with most of the focus starting off on Grant and Frank. Frank's had a really hard life being a Variant (think genetically engineered space mutant) and he's kind of an asshole because of it. He keeps having resurgences of being an asshole. He'll do nice things too but he's also such a DICK sometime I just wanna punch the little bastard.

...Also I kind of admit I'm emotionally torturing Gerard in this for fun.

Anyway, what's really surprising me is there's two background relationships seen in the story. One is Gabe Saporta/Victoria Asher/Travie McCoy, which I don't get much into. The other is a SERIOUSLY complex relationship with Patrick Stump/Pete Wentz.

There's shared trauma, and I seem to have made Patrick asexual for this fic (I honestly didn't realize it until a friend pointed it out to me) so I think part of the reason their relationship is becoming more prominent is because it's an example of intimacy without sex. And that's something that the lead poly relationship really needs to realize (for reasons I don't wanna get into now because I'm still working on it).

This is going in all sorts of weird directions and hopefully solidifies soon.

Re: doctorkilljoy

[doctor_jasley]

it sounds like everything is going in weird but excellently complex directions and I'm totally stoked to see your finished story of awesome.

*waves pom poms*

doctorkilljoy

[(Anonymous)]

I see much editing in my future because the story and relationships are changing so fast that it's not really keeping in line with what I already wrote.

Re: doctorkilljoy

[jiksa_x]

Asshole!Frnk makes me so happppy. So does emotionally tortured Gerard, tbh. And Frnk/Gee/Grant is one of my OT3s (I have too many to count). Sounds you have a really exciting story on your hands :)

I've had this bunny in my head for a while about Patrick and Pete being together and Trick being asexual and them finding a way to make it work. Am super excited to read what you do with your asexual!Trick!

from doctorkilljoy

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man it's fun to write but it's COMPLICATED. But everything's gonna work out in the end.

Yeah that was the thing I totally did NOT mean to do that. But now that I'm writing more about their relationship I'm really glad that Patrick turned out that way. I actually just worked on the scenes where that's explored further at work today.