June of Doom & Gloom - Week 3 discussion and etc. post

[huinare]

A slightly belated welcome to the third week of this here.

Have another update/progress/discussion post thing. Any progress in your writing, frustrations, new plot bunnies? Feel free to gab. General discussion question (all welcome, participants or otherwise): Are there particular characters you tend to victimize select more frequently as subject matter when writing sad, scary, or otherwise not-lighthearted stories? or particular groups/settings/time periods? Put another way, are there certain characters who just can't seem to catch a break from you in your fanworks?

Comments

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Go draft 2! Still curious what this fic is going to pan out as. =)

I tend to glom onto certain characters and usually write about them, whether for darker stories or not. So, basically: Maglor.

Not surprising! I think most of my glomming onto characters also entails my picking on them (though probably for different reasons, such as my apparent inability to be kind to characters in general), although some more than others.

[independence1776]

Idril and Tuor encounter the Enchanted Isles. It'll probably one of the lighter fics in the challenge…

As much as I love Elrond, I find it difficult to make his life any more painful than what canon did to him. Maglor I don't have a problem doing that to.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Oh cool! The Enchanted Isles do have a certain creepiness about them that I could see lending itself well to this, even if the story is "lighter."

Elrond does get kind of a raw deal, pretty much from the start. Whereas Maglor had at least the chance of a good youth.

[independence1776]

Yay! I'm glad I'm not off the mark in thinking it fits.

Exactly. Plus, it doesn't help that things seem to have happened to him; they're not a consequence of his choices. Maglor's… are.