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Fanfic musings
Nov. 3rd, 2012 05:36 amThis is Wesley's Ray Norman character, from Cannon. Isn't he adorably precious?! **hugs him.**
I've finally got going on the Wild Wild West fic that's supposed to be a lead-in to the time-travel one. I'm very happy with it so far and it's moving along excellently. Tentatively I don't think it will be too long, since it's mainly a lead-in and set-up, but that could change.
Among other things, Arte has teamed up with Coley Rodman. Arte believes Jim is dead, and Coley was found at the scene, so Arte is suspicious of whether Coley had something to do with it. Coley insists he's guiltless in the matter and wants to find out who really was responsible.
Meanwhile, Jim is alive and being held captive by Dr. Faustina so he can witness her remarkable experiments of bringing back the dead. She demonstrates by reviving Lucrece Posey's gang, one by one. Cyril is already alive again at the beginning, and Pinto is revived while Jim is unconscious, to go spy on Arte, but aside from them, Jim is scheduled to be present for all the rest of the returns.
All of these details are a surprise to me. I just love when a story unfolds and practically writes itself!
I am planning for scenes in the future. I know I want Arte and Coley to get in a shootout with someone or several someones, and Coley's prediction that Arte will have to rely on him to save his life will come true. I have an image of someone sneaking up on Coley and either knocking him out or dazing him pretty bad, and Coley staggers up with blood running down his face and manages to shoot one of the antagonists right before he can shoot Arte. He then collapses, probably with a concussion, the way Arte collapsed in the episode The Simian Terror. Arte finds him later, knowing what happened, and takes him back to the hotel to recover, bowled over.
I'm thinking the climax should be in Faustina's laboratory, when she's gearing up for the last revival and there's lightning everywhere. There's an overload in the machines, it rips a hole in the space-time continuum, and Coley is zapped first (arriving in the present day several months ahead of the others). But before the others get zapped too, Arte is horrified and alarmed and shaken, probably thinking that Coley has been vaporized. And in spite of whatever bad Coley has done, he did prove himself a capable ally on this adventure. After they get zapped to the present too, Arte hopes that's what happened to Coley and wants to find him.
This whole team-up angle and everything it will entail completely alters the tone of some blurbs I wrote for the time-travel thing, where Jim and Arte have only encountered Coley while trying to stop him in several nasty schemes. In the blurbs, they are very on-guard and worried about what Coley will do in the present, where crime is concerned. With these new angles, that will still be a concern, but I think Arte will mostly be worried about Coley's well-being.
Coley's a fun character to write for. And I must not be the only one who feels he honestly isn't as bad as some of the antagonists and even has some good in him. Someone on Tumblr liked my thoughts on him so much that they reblogged as well as Liked. http://lucky-ladybugs-lovelies.tumblr.com/ Although on the WWW Proboards forum, I don't seem to know anyone who agrees with me. At least if they do, they haven't spoke up.
And I do wish more people knew what (or who) I was talking about. Oneshot characters are so fun to like, but it's not always easy to get an audience that's aware of them. I'm not sure any of the FF.net readers know who Coley is, except one person from the forum (and I'm not sure of her opinion on Coley, either). He's from The Night of the Sudden Plague, one of my favorite WWW episodes.
I've finally got going on the Wild Wild West fic that's supposed to be a lead-in to the time-travel one. I'm very happy with it so far and it's moving along excellently. Tentatively I don't think it will be too long, since it's mainly a lead-in and set-up, but that could change.
Among other things, Arte has teamed up with Coley Rodman. Arte believes Jim is dead, and Coley was found at the scene, so Arte is suspicious of whether Coley had something to do with it. Coley insists he's guiltless in the matter and wants to find out who really was responsible.
Meanwhile, Jim is alive and being held captive by Dr. Faustina so he can witness her remarkable experiments of bringing back the dead. She demonstrates by reviving Lucrece Posey's gang, one by one. Cyril is already alive again at the beginning, and Pinto is revived while Jim is unconscious, to go spy on Arte, but aside from them, Jim is scheduled to be present for all the rest of the returns.
All of these details are a surprise to me. I just love when a story unfolds and practically writes itself!
I am planning for scenes in the future. I know I want Arte and Coley to get in a shootout with someone or several someones, and Coley's prediction that Arte will have to rely on him to save his life will come true. I have an image of someone sneaking up on Coley and either knocking him out or dazing him pretty bad, and Coley staggers up with blood running down his face and manages to shoot one of the antagonists right before he can shoot Arte. He then collapses, probably with a concussion, the way Arte collapsed in the episode The Simian Terror. Arte finds him later, knowing what happened, and takes him back to the hotel to recover, bowled over.
I'm thinking the climax should be in Faustina's laboratory, when she's gearing up for the last revival and there's lightning everywhere. There's an overload in the machines, it rips a hole in the space-time continuum, and Coley is zapped first (arriving in the present day several months ahead of the others). But before the others get zapped too, Arte is horrified and alarmed and shaken, probably thinking that Coley has been vaporized. And in spite of whatever bad Coley has done, he did prove himself a capable ally on this adventure. After they get zapped to the present too, Arte hopes that's what happened to Coley and wants to find him.
This whole team-up angle and everything it will entail completely alters the tone of some blurbs I wrote for the time-travel thing, where Jim and Arte have only encountered Coley while trying to stop him in several nasty schemes. In the blurbs, they are very on-guard and worried about what Coley will do in the present, where crime is concerned. With these new angles, that will still be a concern, but I think Arte will mostly be worried about Coley's well-being.
Coley's a fun character to write for. And I must not be the only one who feels he honestly isn't as bad as some of the antagonists and even has some good in him. Someone on Tumblr liked my thoughts on him so much that they reblogged as well as Liked. http://lucky-ladybugs-lovelies.tumblr.com/ Although on the WWW Proboards forum, I don't seem to know anyone who agrees with me. At least if they do, they haven't spoke up.
And I do wish more people knew what (or who) I was talking about. Oneshot characters are so fun to like, but it's not always easy to get an audience that's aware of them. I'm not sure any of the FF.net readers know who Coley is, except one person from the forum (and I'm not sure of her opinion on Coley, either). He's from The Night of the Sudden Plague, one of my favorite WWW episodes.
