Just checking in: "I'm ready to listen when you're ready to tell me the rest of the story."

[brightknightie]

It's been just over a week since matches went out. How are you doing? Finding something that clicks? Scouting something new?

Stories come due on the AO3 on June 23. Stories begin releasing on June 25.

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One of our insightful players suggested that we could get more fun from our community during the game's writing phase with periodic surveys. So, this year, I'll try to buoy these dull reminders with interesting questions. For those who'd enjoy a little engagement...

Question #1: Is your personal favorite FK episode the same as the episode you'd identify as FK's best? Why?

Bonus question: What do you think of this question idea? And what questions (if any) should we ask in the future?

Thanks!

Comments

[brightknightie]

>"I know you like season 1 the best. What's your draw to it?"

Everything about FK's first season satisfies me more than the other two seasons, including, I'm afraid, the very differences from second season that make you prefer second season. :-)

It's not that I don't enjoy the other two seasons! But first season gives me more, from the surface level (like the rich sets resulting from the use of real sites rather than only soundstages) to the deepest heart (like the achieved elimination of Lacroix -- the slave master, the drug pusher, the abusive parent -- freeing Nick from the external demon to fight his war internally, opening new horizons of hope and healing and promise).

It also has the highest percentage of the best episodes, as I personally reckon them, for all their various individual faults.

First season is the closest to the series metaphors, I think.

:-)

[argentum_ls]

You do seem to be drawn to themes of hope and redemption :)

I agree that LaCroix is Nick's external demon. That's why I liked him in real time, because it allowed us to see what Nick was really fighting rather than only what he perceived in his past. But, hope and redemption aren't my themes; I lean more toward found family and the negotiation of that gray area between who you have to be and who you want to be.

[brightknightie]

>"[Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story] allowed us to see what Nick was really fighting rather than only what he perceived in his past."

:-) Continuing the theme, of course I perceive Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story as getting in the way of us seeing what Nick's really fighting, which are the ills of mankind, inside his Everyman-self as they are in all of us. :-)

This nostalgically brings to mind the first time clueless newbie me read a fanfic by an author who turned out to be the founder of the Dark Knighties. I sincerely thought the story was a tragedy, and wrote to compliment her on such a sad story. She replied, baffled, thanking me for the compliment, but sure that the story in question was happily triumphant...

[argentum_ls]

I perceive Lacroix alive and present in the present-day story as getting in the way of us seeing what Nick's really fighting

Interesting.

I appreciate your perspective. It's some good insight should I ever be in the position to write for you again :)

This nostalgically brings to mind...

It's always fascinating how readers and writers can differ in their understanding of what a story is. I have a Teen Wolf ficlet I wrote that was meant to be an exploration of grief, but the comments I got on it are all about how cute and heartwarming it is--which, to me, is the opposite of what the reader is supposed to get. Still, if the reader liked the story and took something away from it, then I have to consider the writing a success.

[brightknightie]

I don't know about Teen Wolf, but in FK, I suspect that the more canon-like a fanfic is -- the more in-character, in-voice, on-screen-ish -- the more it's subject to these wide divergences in interpretation... just like canon. :-)