it is fan fiction which means playing with the characters Yes, that's true to an extent - but when does it stop being fanfiction (based on characters we love) and turn into original fiction about people who look like our characters and have the same names, but aren't really them? That's where I struggle with stories - I have to be able to see the essence of our lads in a story, and believe that they're the same people I see in the eps. And I'm not sure I can see my Bodie in this story! He's just too brutal - and we see him rejecting that kind of brutality in the eps. In Heroes he points out to Doyle that he might kill people when he had to, but that he didn't enjoy it - but in this story he thinks "...even the knowledge of having killed him cannot quench his thirst to do it again." (beating the suspect so badly that he does die, that is).
The point is this -- can you persuade one of those men out there that he likes you well enough, respects and trust you enough, to want to work with you ? Yes! I like that too! That's Bodie's challenge for the story, I guess - I just wish Angelfish hadn't made him so unlikeably brutal in order to bring him back from it, because that's not the Bodie that I see.
The scene with the first touch between these two is already brilliant. Yes! I liked that too! A glimpse of what will be between them - and Doyle refusing to be intimidated by him, and proving that they're equals straight away! *g*
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Date: 2019-04-07 10:34 am (UTC)Yes, that's true to an extent - but when does it stop being fanfiction (based on characters we love) and turn into original fiction about people who look like our characters and have the same names, but aren't really them? That's where I struggle with stories - I have to be able to see the essence of our lads in a story, and believe that they're the same people I see in the eps. And I'm not sure I can see my Bodie in this story! He's just too brutal - and we see him rejecting that kind of brutality in the eps. In Heroes he points out to Doyle that he might kill people when he had to, but that he didn't enjoy it - but in this story he thinks "...even the knowledge of having killed him cannot quench his thirst to do it again." (beating the suspect so badly that he does die, that is).
The point is this -- can you persuade one of those men out there that he likes you well enough, respects and trust you enough, to want to work with you ?
Yes! I like that too! That's Bodie's challenge for the story, I guess - I just wish Angelfish hadn't made him so unlikeably brutal in order to bring him back from it, because that's not the Bodie that I see.
The scene with the first touch between these two is already brilliant.
Yes! I liked that too! A glimpse of what will be between them - and Doyle refusing to be intimidated by him, and proving that they're equals straight away! *g*