Pet Peeve: Believable Romances

I've got a new pet peeve when it comes to fanfics now. You see, it's this coupling thing. Now mind you, I'm not a strictly canon person. I love non-cannon couplings (Hello? I write Anakin/Ahsoka). But as I was going through some stories in not only the Star Wars archive, but others, I couldn't believe how many canon and non-canon couplings there were stories about that didn't make the relationship realistic.

Now before you go off on me in the comments section, I, again, have no problems with non-canon couples. I support Harry/Hermione, Anakin/Ahsoka, Jack/Elizabeth, etc... But I have a problem when they aren't written with realism in mind. I mean if you're going to write one of these pairing you can't just say they had hidden feelings for each other without giving support from the actual work to prove that it's a possibility or developing the possibility of a relationship especially when your character(s) are already in a relationship! Take for instance the Obidala coupling. I don't have a problem with it, but God make it believable. I'm going to be a skeptic for two reason. One: There's no evidence in the movies to support Obi-wan has any feelings for Padme and Two: She's interested in Anakin. As a writer, your job is to make me believe! Not just write a story about them together because you like the coupling. And you know what writing like that does? It keeps the fans from the other different couplings from flaming the story and it makes them actually like the story and the couple.

It's like this, you can't just say there are hidden feelings without giving me evidence to support it. Make one little or big critical event happen that could turn couple down the path of romance and for God's sake believable. I do believe in the integrity of the character. Stay true to the character. Even if you make them evil, make me see an evil version of the character. It's like Darth Vader and Anakin. Same person, just one evil, one good. They both still have some of the basic characteristics of each other just on two opposite extremes.

Do you all get this? Now to make you non-canon people feel better, I have a pet peeve about canon couplings too. I was just looking around in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures section and you would not believe the stories I saw that made me almost hate the Pepper/Tony coupling. For those of you who don't watch it, Tony doesn't have much of a romantic bone in his body and he has the annoying tendency to brush people off and their feelings. So while it's pretty obvious Pepper is just about head over heals for him, there's nothing to show that Tony feels the same way except that he's protective of her, but that can be said about any of his friends. It's not until the end of season one where there are some hints that he might be a tad jealous of some other guy when Pepper starts focusing her attention on him. Anywho, I practically died when I saw all the fics with them as the main couple and a good majority took Tony like... way out of character or made this sudden jump that he really likes or loves Pepper. I do believe there's something way down deep inside, but not enough for that yet.

My point, even the canon couplings have to be written believable and it just irks me that no one is taking the time to think about the characters instead of saying, I like this couple so I'm going to write a story about them and to hell with how they really are.

I know. I know... It's called fanfiction, but even we fanfic writers have to have our standards. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I can name one or two scenes or situations in my fic where I pushed the line, but even proffessional writers do that, but my point is do try. Please so I won't waste fifteen minutes writing on this subject again.

Story Updates

I’ve got to stop watching movies. I fell in love with The Lovely Bones and it gave me an idea for another fic, but I saw another author has the same idea, so I figure since I want to get done with Light of Liberty, Sanctioned by an Angel, and, Ascension from Darkness: Forgive and forget, I’d let them have it. Speaking of my stories, all of them are coming along nicely and since compared to the colossal chapters of LoL, writing SbaA is really going to be a piece of cake. I’m going to try to make it fit into one whole story instead of my three and four part patterns.

Also, I have a shout out even though this isn’t a shout out posting but I have to say this while the author’s on my mint.

The Edge of Darkness is hard to place because she only has one story and based on the publish date, she did drop it for a while and it will be the only story she ever publishes, but it’s a good story. It’s a take I’ve never seen. Over the Hills and Far Away is a fic detailing Anakin getting captured by Palpatine and held there for seven years before he escapes. The rest of the story is about him trying to make his way back to Padmé, Luke, and Leia. Don’t bother pestering her about updating. She’s a busy girl and has a life, but she updates frequently enough. She doesn’t seem to be a quitter so I doubt she’ll ever abandon it… It just might be a few years before she finishes it.

Shout Outs!

I came across some more good authors on fanfiction.net and there's another website I wanted to show you too. So here's more for you people who find it hard to search through the slush and find good fics.

Luke1:  This guy is a master at taking characters from star wars and throwing them into situations that aren't in such a good light but keeping them in character. He is great when it comes to exploring what could have happened between Luke and Leia those fours years they didn't know they were twins and man is it awesome. The incest thing is very controversial but it's a great read. I was hooked on his story The Shadows Suit Me and now he's writing it's sequel Burning Bright. He's a slow updater but man it's so worth the wait. But watch out kids. These are mature stories.

Lilac Moon: Lilac Moon's specialty is Anakin/Padme fics and you can find many completed stories with them under her account and they're very long.  She's got two fics going that I have to talk about. The first is The Awakening: Revised edition which is a rewrite of the original fic which can still be found on her profile. It's about what might have happened if Palpatine replaced Anakin with his unborn son from the beginning and it's been updated to include Ahsoka and other favorites. The next story is Forbidden Longing and it's co-written so the updates are slow but omg! I have never read a fic that made Obi-wan become evil seem so believable. It wasn't at all far-fetched. It's amazing. That last story is only for mature audiences though and contains mentions of rape so if you can't handle that, don't read it.

KittandChips: This is an old writer and she doesn't write fics anymore, not for star wars anyway, but she has a really great series called Force Bond and it's about what might have happened if Vader had discovered Luke when he was around twelve or so. There are for main fics and about six that take place in between the first two. They are all the perfect balance between adventure, humor, drama, and other things. She puts a nice twist on the Luke/Vader fandom yet you still can believe that theVader is, well.... You can believe he's Vader the sith and Vader the father. Awesome read.

Until next time, LadyDae out.

Dark Ahsoka Q&A Up

So Arc II of Light of Liberty is up and Ascension from Darkness is coming to a close so that means I might be able to fit in another story... Then again, LoL is a tasking project and though I'm never short of ideas, I still have to write it up so Sanctioned by an Angel might not be up until the end of the year (check out the sneak peak in one of my earlier post if you're curious). I've decided to kind of stick to Star Wars since I know it so well and it's easy to access any information I'm not positive about.

The Q&A is up for the Dark Ahsoka series but it's not complete. More is coming soon. But that's all. I just wanted to update everyone on what was going on.