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Aug. 2nd, 2019 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI get a bit frustrated by how little of fanfic addresses the initial problem.
Don't get me wrong, AUs are great, fic and let fic, write all the things.
But it seems like it's a weirdly small percentage of fic that looks at the werewolf show and is like : What if werewolves, but happy?
And when it does it seems like one of the big approaches is What If bad thing never happened?
Which isn't, you know, the thing that happened that started this all off?
And it winds me up, too. Like, obviously you don't want bad things to happen to your people, BUT it makes it feel like happy endings are only for people who haven't gone through bad things. And no. Happy endings for everyone.
I know those fics are out there, I just hit a series of alternates in a row.
But like, taking what canon gave us and seeing what we can build with it is the happy place? Right?
I have an elaborate DC daydream that starts with getting a timeship back to episode one, or pre the first flashback, and using all the future knowledge to make good instead, but it involves all the bad starting to happen, because on the whole it would.
Also I know it wouldn't work out as easy as it does in my head, Booster Gold more or less tried it and discovered the butterflies mean you get one encounter with advantage, maaaaybe two, and after that you're flying as blind as anyone.
But.
Just handwaving all the hard bits away feels like
saying to the characters
okay, happy ending, but only for the bits of you that were happy anyway.
:(
There's another whole set of fics that are very much into
What if as traumatised as in canon
but actually out loud where people can hug them?
That one is much more my speed.
Traumatised and possibly disabled heroes putting themselves back together with a little help from their friends. That's the good stuff.
How to get to the happily ever after is both the trickiest bit and the good bit.
Only getting there by leaving stuff out is what makes me want to build character sanctuaries.
Don't get me wrong, AUs are great, fic and let fic, write all the things.
But it seems like it's a weirdly small percentage of fic that looks at the werewolf show and is like : What if werewolves, but happy?
And when it does it seems like one of the big approaches is What If bad thing never happened?
Which isn't, you know, the thing that happened that started this all off?
And it winds me up, too. Like, obviously you don't want bad things to happen to your people, BUT it makes it feel like happy endings are only for people who haven't gone through bad things. And no. Happy endings for everyone.
I know those fics are out there, I just hit a series of alternates in a row.
But like, taking what canon gave us and seeing what we can build with it is the happy place? Right?
I have an elaborate DC daydream that starts with getting a timeship back to episode one, or pre the first flashback, and using all the future knowledge to make good instead, but it involves all the bad starting to happen, because on the whole it would.
Also I know it wouldn't work out as easy as it does in my head, Booster Gold more or less tried it and discovered the butterflies mean you get one encounter with advantage, maaaaybe two, and after that you're flying as blind as anyone.
But.
Just handwaving all the hard bits away feels like
saying to the characters
okay, happy ending, but only for the bits of you that were happy anyway.
:(
There's another whole set of fics that are very much into
What if as traumatised as in canon
but actually out loud where people can hug them?
That one is much more my speed.
Traumatised and possibly disabled heroes putting themselves back together with a little help from their friends. That's the good stuff.
How to get to the happily ever after is both the trickiest bit and the good bit.
Only getting there by leaving stuff out is what makes me want to build character sanctuaries.