do you usually write characters who are either together or pretty likely to end up that way? Or doesn't that matter, because this is "just fic"?
It is not that it is "just" fic, it is that fic is the artform where we run with our own takes on other people's stories, so it is sort of in its element with non-canonical pairings. Even better is our fandom has a time machine so anyone can get it on with anyone else, yay!
Also "likely to" is in the eye of the beholder. I can see the Doctor shagging Donna before he'd do Rose or Martha, based on his non-sexual relationships with them all. In fact I could quite believe that they Did It between episodes, because there's nothing to say they didn't, unlike with the other two. And the bit I saw of End of Time did convince me at least that the Doctor was madly in love with Donna. So what's canon, really?
If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?
I write pairings that seem win together. Sometimes I get lucky and like a canon one (omg Ten/Reinette <3) but mostly I write pairings that never happened. Cos I want to explore the relationship a bit or just cos it seems like they'd be hot together. Fic lets us see things the show never would. I mean, I can get all the delicious Four/Romana gen/UST I want from the actual episodes, but fic lets us see what it'd be like if they accidentally married and made a baby that destroyed the universe. Though obviously Adric was their child too.
I say don't worry too much about what canon says. It's useful for knowing what colour someone's eyes are but beyond that we're under no obligation to do what we're told. TV!Canon is never going to show me what would happen if the Doctor and Donna got together romantically, but I still want to occasionally see how other people think it would play out. Plus DW has wildly contradictory stories (did the Doctor blow up Skaro or was it still there for the War? What exactly happened to Atlantis?) so I think we can get away with quite a lot in this fandom.
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Date: 2010-03-18 11:42 pm (UTC)It is not that it is "just" fic, it is that fic is the artform where we run with our own takes on other people's stories, so it is sort of in its element with non-canonical pairings. Even better is our fandom has a time machine so anyone can get it on with anyone else, yay!
Also "likely to" is in the eye of the beholder. I can see the Doctor shagging Donna before he'd do Rose or Martha, based on his non-sexual relationships with them all. In fact I could quite believe that they Did It between episodes, because there's nothing to say they didn't, unlike with the other two. And the bit I saw of End of Time did convince me at least that the Doctor was madly in love with Donna. So what's canon, really?
If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?
I write pairings that seem win together. Sometimes I get lucky and like a canon one (omg Ten/Reinette <3) but mostly I write pairings that never happened. Cos I want to explore the relationship a bit or just cos it seems like they'd be hot together. Fic lets us see things the show never would. I mean, I can get all the delicious Four/Romana gen/UST I want from the actual episodes, but fic lets us see what it'd be like if they accidentally married and made a baby that destroyed the universe.
Though obviously Adric was their child too.I say don't worry too much about what canon says. It's useful for knowing what colour someone's eyes are but beyond that we're under no obligation to do what we're told. TV!Canon is never going to show me what would happen if the Doctor and Donna got together romantically, but I still want to occasionally see how other people think it would play out. Plus DW has wildly contradictory stories (did the Doctor blow up Skaro or was it still there for the War? What exactly happened to Atlantis?) so I think we can get away with quite a lot in this fandom.