But I'd like to see more Dark Side fics with mature themes (but I don't mean smut, necessarily) that have good reasons for Revan going Darkside, and realistic consequences. Too many Dark Side fics have MindlesslyEvil!Revan/Bastila, Thug!Canderous, yadda yadda...all the good guys are sniveling weaklings, and the bad guys randomly kill people because there's no toilet paper in the bathroom (however, it's completely justifiable if they left the seat up, so that doesn't count!). And the Dark side is one big party of random violence.
I don't see enough dark side fics that can make the characters sympathetic while making them really dark side. Going dark side to be with Bastila, in my book, doesn't really cut it--as a darksider, she's going to be a different person, and it demonstrates a lack of creativity on both Revan and Bastila's part if they truly think that the only way they can be together is to bring the entire Republic to its knees. Because bringing the Republic to its knees is a full-time job...they wouldn't have the time to snuggle and they'd be back to square one in the "we can't be together" department.
And call me insane at this point, but I would like to see more stories with weird pairings, romantic and otherwise, but only if done well. One of the challenges of ficcing is to take a situation and make it work through character development and interaction. Take two disparate crew members and put them in a situation where they need to work together, and see if you can get them to an agreement while staying true to character.
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:56 am (UTC)I don't see enough dark side fics that can make the characters sympathetic while making them really dark side. Going dark side to be with Bastila, in my book, doesn't really cut it--as a darksider, she's going to be a different person, and it demonstrates a lack of creativity on both Revan and Bastila's part if they truly think that the only way they can be together is to bring the entire Republic to its knees. Because bringing the Republic to its knees is a full-time job...they wouldn't have the time to snuggle and they'd be back to square one in the "we can't be together" department.
And call me insane at this point, but I would like to see more stories with weird pairings, romantic and otherwise, but only if done well. One of the challenges of ficcing is to take a situation and make it work through character development and interaction. Take two disparate crew members and put them in a situation where they need to work together, and see if you can get them to an agreement while staying true to character.