brightknightie: Methos and Duncan outside in the snow. (Other Fandom HL Methos)
Amy ([personal profile] brightknightie) wrote2021-01-20 09:33 pm

My '20 HLH_Shortcuts story: "The Power That’s Inside (We All Live in a Pokémon World)"

My 2020 [community profile] hlh_shortcuts contribution was, obviously, "The Power That’s Inside (We All Live in a Pokémon World)" (7K words, PG, gen) (Duncan, Methos, Joe, Giovanni, Emolga, Charmander).

My recipient's sign-up included “crack taken seriously” and the “reality of being immortal,” and allowed “most stuff” for crossovers. I agonized over what direction to take (as usual, but more) and consulted [personal profile] celli on the nature of the crack-fic genre and this idea. I almost instead went for a Very Serious concept about Joe and all the institutional betrayals he's suffered. (I can do "taken seriously." It's whether I can do "crack" that's in question.) Instead, we start with Methos as a PokéTuber a la TrainerTips, and then it gets even stranger.

I lucked out. My recipient knows and likes main-series Pokémon through her daughter. Whew!

I regret that I ended up with all the women characters off-screen. Angie, Anne, Mary, Amanda, and Jessie all had scenes in my head that ended up as Duncan telling the key takeaway, rather than me showing the encounter. And I see now how I could have done better by digging into Duncan's motivations and memories more, and more frankly (as nudged by [personal profile] leela_cat's perceptive beta).

But when the story rolls into crack-ness, I think it works.

celli: a woman and a man holding hands, captioned "i treasure" (Default)

[personal profile] celli 2021-01-24 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
:D x infinity!!!!