Yes, and that's the challenge I'm relishing. In every fandom I've played in, I think I've written at least one story where I really tried to take the time to 'persuade' the characters into it, so that it would make the relationship believable even for people who didn't generally buy the pairing. I guess this is that story for this fandom. :-)
I think relationship stories have to set up a standard of realism the same way science fiction and action movies do. You can have James Bond stunts and people wrestling on top of jet fighters, but you have to buy that suspension of disbelief at the start. Same as you can set up a story with a more vulnerable Chris Keller and then I'll squee when they buy curtains together at the end. I'm trying to keep this in a place where readers will scoff if Elliot decides that Chris wasn't such a bad guy or starts wearing a triangle pin to work. And that's why I loved that you were sceptical of Toby's parenting failure.
Thank you so much! I kind of have been winding things obsessively back and forth through the story - this is what happens when a story percolates over a year, and new ideas keep creeping in - and it means so much that you notice it. Your feedback is really lovely.
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Re: Chapter 42 Domesticated
Date: 2015-02-10 12:28 pm (UTC)Yes, and that's the challenge I'm relishing. In every fandom I've played in, I think I've written at least one story where I really tried to take the time to 'persuade' the characters into it, so that it would make the relationship believable even for people who didn't generally buy the pairing. I guess this is that story for this fandom. :-)
I think relationship stories have to set up a standard of realism the same way science fiction and action movies do. You can have James Bond stunts and people wrestling on top of jet fighters, but you have to buy that suspension of disbelief at the start. Same as you can set up a story with a more vulnerable Chris Keller and then I'll squee when they buy curtains together at the end. I'm trying to keep this in a place where readers will scoff if Elliot decides that Chris wasn't such a bad guy or starts wearing a triangle pin to work. And that's why I loved that you were sceptical of Toby's parenting failure.
Thank you so much! I kind of have been winding things obsessively back and forth through the story - this is what happens when a story percolates over a year, and new ideas keep creeping in - and it means so much that you notice it. Your feedback is really lovely.
S.