...I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing?
I didn't mean the fic itself was serious. I meant my approach to it is. Well, the fics are usually Deep And Shit, but I try to make them have funneh, because canon has funneh, the characters have funneh, and they would not be In Character otherwise. So they crack jokes and do ridiculous things, because that's who they are.
But I am very serious about making them do that. And I never let them Say Anything They Would Not Say. But the fic I just wrote, and even Man's Best Friend, I gave them a lot freer rein, and let them go off on whatever a lot more than I usually let them, even though it didn't fit a Perfect Vision Of The Character. Even though I Did Not Know What Was Going On In Their Heads, which is usually very important to me. In fact the entire way I wrote Spike in MBF was by saying, "Okay, I don't get this character. So I'll just make him spew a bunch of stuff that doesn't make sense to me, and he might turn out alright." Whereas if I had had SSS while writing that fic, I'd've made it my mission to Understand Spike and the piece would have been an exploration of me trying to understand him.
What I ended up with in MBF and the thing I just wrote was character occasionally doing things they would not (in the one I just wrote in particular, I find Angel's actions actually implausible). But they come off as An Interesting Take On The Character. But not my One True Take, which is what I go for when I have SSS, and that ends up . . . being labored and complicated and very difficult to write, and probably not as good, in the end.
I hope that makes sense; I don't mean to dump on your comment!
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I didn't mean the fic itself was serious. I meant my approach to it is. Well, the fics are usually Deep And Shit, but I try to make them have funneh, because canon has funneh, the characters have funneh, and they would not be In Character otherwise. So they crack jokes and do ridiculous things, because that's who they are.
But I am very serious about making them do that. And I never let them Say Anything They Would Not Say. But the fic I just wrote, and even Man's Best Friend, I gave them a lot freer rein, and let them go off on whatever a lot more than I usually let them, even though it didn't fit a Perfect Vision Of The Character. Even though I Did Not Know What Was Going On In Their Heads, which is usually very important to me. In fact the entire way I wrote Spike in MBF was by saying, "Okay, I don't get this character. So I'll just make him spew a bunch of stuff that doesn't make sense to me, and he might turn out alright." Whereas if I had had SSS while writing that fic, I'd've made it my mission to Understand Spike and the piece would have been an exploration of me trying to understand him.
What I ended up with in MBF and the thing I just wrote was character occasionally doing things they would not (in the one I just wrote in particular, I find Angel's actions actually implausible). But they come off as An Interesting Take On The Character. But not my One True Take, which is what I go for when I have SSS, and that ends up . . . being labored and complicated and very difficult to write, and probably not as good, in the end.
I hope that makes sense; I don't mean to dump on your comment!