So, Anything You'd Like to Know?

[kriadydragon]

Ask me anything you want about any one of my stories that you've read. For example: What posessed me to put a tape-worm like creature into Sheppard's back? Why am I always making it so poor Shep loses weight? Why did I have Character A react as he/she did when character B did this? And so on.

I'm not quite sure why I'm doing this. Curiosity? Bordeom? Maybe both, I don't know. It seemed like a fun idea and I wanted to see if it was. Feel free to snurch if you want. There's a good chance something similar has been done already, but I don't recall (or just plain don't know about it.)

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

That's why I said "for me". Whump is my means for bringing out the humanity in a character. It's why I whump (hmmm, I probably should have clarified that more). I have used other means, but whump is my preferred method, especially for Sheppard since he is the hero and, normally, on shows, the hero always comes off as being the most difficult to scathe. I like exploring his breaking points both physically and mentally, rather than just mentally.

I don't think there's one universal answer to why people like whump (though some psychologists my disagree) sort of like there's no one universal reason why people like het or slash romances (some like it for the emotions, others like it for the kink.) The only way to answer the "why do people like whump" question is personally. "I like whump" rather than "people like whump."

[sholio]

Ahhhh. You know, I think there are kinda two different parts to that question -- one is "why do I write whump?" (or h/c, my preferred term) and the other is "why do I prefer whump?", and the answers are not necessarily the same. In giving my own answers, I've usually tended to take part 1 as the easy part -- "I write it because I enjoy it, duh" -- and then spend all my time analyzing the second part: what do I get out of h/c that I don't get out of something like romance?

I think some of my confusion with your answer is because the reasons why you'd given for writing it are my reasons for writing almost anything -- to explore the character and peek under their hood, as it were. "I write h/c because it lets me explore the character's emotions" doesn't quite seem like the same thing as "H/c is my preferred way of exploring a character's emotions" to me -- at least, it was getting me confused.

But I'm much less confused now. *g*

(And we're watching NCIS now, and WOW, is Gibbs totally the "Sheppard" of that show, or what. Talking about stoic, unflappable characters... He's definitely got the whole "stoic team leader, really cares deep down" thing ... he makes Sheppard look downright in touch with his emotions! I haven't started poking around for fic yet because we're only in the middle of the second season and I fear spoilers, but I definitely suspect that this will be a show I'll be seeking out h/c for.)

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I hadn't thought of it that way.

Whenever you're ready for some good NCIS H/C angst, I recommend Florence1's Between a Rock and A Gibbs. It's Tony whump but with some very excellent Gibbs angst. It was the first story I got into when I first found out about Fanfiction three years ago. And it was only last year she completed it! I'm not sure which season it is (between one and three, maybe.) I have it on my Fave's list if you're interested.