Snowflake Challenge, Day 10
Jan. 12th, 2018 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofleithianIn your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Original fiction or fanfiction:
Sympathetic villains — What can I say, I’m a sucker for that trope. It really makes the story even more powerful because the villain seems all the more real.
Strong female characters — I grew up on that stuff. Seriously. They really helped me through the tougher aspects of growing up.
Fanfiction:
Ben and Poe being friends and later lovers — You can blame TV Tropes for this one. And AO3. Let’s say that they really persuaded me towards the idea. I just love the idea because it’s something we’ve never seen before in Star Wars, and could be really unique.
First Order Poe — Because I think it would be interesting to see what it’s like if Poe were on the opposite side. Usually that lines up with Kylo/Poe. (Yeah, I know)
Role reversal — Because I like exploring what character X would do in character Y’s situation. Character development, plot development...yowza. It’s awesome!
Original fiction or fanfiction:
Sympathetic villains — What can I say, I’m a sucker for that trope. It really makes the story even more powerful because the villain seems all the more real.
Strong female characters — I grew up on that stuff. Seriously. They really helped me through the tougher aspects of growing up.
Fanfiction:
Ben and Poe being friends and later lovers — You can blame TV Tropes for this one. And AO3. Let’s say that they really persuaded me towards the idea. I just love the idea because it’s something we’ve never seen before in Star Wars, and could be really unique.
First Order Poe — Because I think it would be interesting to see what it’s like if Poe were on the opposite side. Usually that lines up with Kylo/Poe. (Yeah, I know)
Role reversal — Because I like exploring what character X would do in character Y’s situation. Character development, plot development...yowza. It’s awesome!
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Date: 2018-01-12 03:30 pm (UTC)Those are tropes I love, too! If the motivations of a character get tweaked, or they feel strongly for something whether they are good or bad and especially somewhere in between, they become so much more interesting. I like watching villains struggle for redemption or if they even want it, and good guys falling into a place they didn't expect themselves to be, and all that comes from that when the characters around them have to deal with the consequences.
I had not thought about that ship for Star Wars, but it sounds interesting. I am sure you probably get some backlash from fandom being weird about shipping Kylo with anyone but he's got so much emotional crap to deal with, I think putting him up against anyone he might potentially inadvertently have feelings about creates really cool situations.
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Date: 2018-01-12 09:31 pm (UTC)And yeah, exactly. On the subject of backlash, I haven’t gotten it myself (yet) but some people I know have really gotten it pretty bad, which gets me a bit paranoid. Luckily on Dreamwidth, Tumblr and AO3, I haven’t gotten it yet.
It really is an interesting pairing, especially going off the premise that they know each other and have a history. I kind of hope we get that in canon because it would be unique and something we hadn’t seen before.