Forever Knight
| Name: | Forever Knight | |
| Abbreviation(s): | FK | |
| Creator: | James D. Parriot | |
| Date(s): | 1992-1996 | |
| Medium: | television series | |
| Country of Origin: | Canada | |
| External Links: | IMDB EpGuides  | |
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Forever Knight was a television series about 800-year-old vampire Nicholas Knight, a detective in the Toronto police department who was attempting to repay humanity for his centuries of preying on them. Each episode ran for 60 minutes (with commercial breaks), divided into five acts.
The two-part pilot for Forever Knight ("Dark Knight" and "Dark Knight: The Second Chapter") was a remake of a 1989 TV movie named Nick Knight. When turned into a series, it was largely recast, and relocated from Los Angeles to Toronto, where Forever Knight was filmed.
Show tagline: "He was brought across in 1228. Preyed on humans for their blood. Now he wants to be mortal again. To repay society for his sins, to emerge from his world of darkness, from his endless Forever Knight."
Forever Knight Fandom
The main mailing list for the fandom, ForKNI-L, was started by Jean Prior and Laurie Salopek on December 9, 1992, during the show's first season. Posts from 2000 to the present are archived on KnightWind's Nook.
Within a year, the main fiction list, FKFIC-L, had also been started by the FORKNI-L listowners.
The fandom's primary gen archive is http://www.fkfanfic.com/.
The primary adult archive (het and slash) is JADFE ("James and Darkangel's Forever Erotica"). The archive was also tied into the JADFE mailing list which was advertised as early as 1996 in the Media Monitor.
The Forever Knight Wiki was started 26 December 2007, and currently has over 3000 pages.
The Forever Knight Website Archive officially debuted February 2010, and currently hosts over 50 websites, mostly former GeoCities sites.
Factions
The ForKNI-L-based fandom developed a number of "factions", or affiliations, starting early in the list's history. These are generally good-natured divisions, with fans "aligning" behind particular characters (and later, pairings) as their favorites. (At least once in the list's history, though, passions over affiliations were running high enough that the list moderators banned .sig affiliation mentions for a couple of weeks to cool things down and get the list back on topic.)
The first faction to be formed was the Cousins -- fans of Lucien LaCroix. This was quickly followed by the Knighties (Nick Knight), the Ravenettes (Janette DuCharme and the Raven), the Natpack (Natalie Lambert), the FoDs ("friends of Don", Don Schanke), and the Die Hards (the show as a whole; no one specific character).
From there, it grew to add nearly every character on the show (plus in one case, a popular OC from fanfic), as well as a variety of pairings.
- See Forever Knight Factions for more details.
- See List of Forever Knight Factions for the names of all the factions.
Wars
"In FK fandom, attack is a form of affection."
FK fandom wars are unlike other fandom wars; here, they're planned and organized, with a timetable and rules in place, and are basically a giant self-insertion RPG, with fans writing themselves into the FK universe to help "their" characters win. A WarMistress/WarMaestro is chosen, and s/he decides the theme for the War and the timetable for it to happen in. Word goes out on the list that War is coming, and the factions begin organizing, each choosing a Warleader to be the point person for that faction, overseeing the faction's direction during the War.
Every individual participating in the War has to sign a "permission slip" up front, agreeing to be involved -- someone who hasn't agreed in advance can't participate, and can't be written into the War by someone else.
The War happens on FKFIC-L, and consists entirely of fiction posts. A faction that needs to "borrow" a character has to ask permission of that character's main faction, so the other faction can work that into their own plans. Other participants can also be attacked, kidnapped, etc. -- it's all part of the game.
See the full list of Forever Knight Wars for more details.
Fanzines
For a list of fanzines, go here.
Websites
For a list of fan websites, go here.
Challenges
- FK Fic Fest (2010)
