Ask the Author: roque clasique
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: roque clasique |
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| Interviewee: | roque clasique |
| Date(s): | April 4, 2010 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here, Archived version |
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roque clasique was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I am known 'round these parts as roque_clasique , pronounced "rock - class - eek" in my head and "roke - class - eek" if you want to be fancy. It's fake french for "classic rock," and it is often mis-spelled by myself and by others. Let it be known, I am not rogue! What you think is a G is actually a Q in hiding. Onward!I'm 23 years-old, six feet tall, I love tomatoes and boots. Supernatural is the only show I watch (and the only show I've watched on a consistent basis since Boy Meets World), and I am fiercely loyal to the fic, if not always to the show itself. I write gen (with a few exceptions), but I will read absolutely anything so long as it's well-written. I'm a total h/c junkie, and that's definitely reflected in my own fic, though I try not to go overboard. I love fanart, too.
I discovered the existence of fanfiction two years ago this week (anniversary!), and it completely blew my mind, and continues to blow my mind on a daily basis. I posted the first chapter of my first story in August of 2008, and it was designed for the sole purpose of providing a vehicle for my own two bulletproof kinks, which are by now pretty well-publicized -- smoking!Dean and permanent injuries. It was, for the first few chapters, called "Cedar Rapids," but when I realized people were reading it I changed the title to I'd Drive All Night Just to Get Back Home (gen, PG-13).
That fic became the Drive 'verse, which is made up of several multi-chapters, a few one-shots, and is still in-progress. The Drive 'verse is probably what I'm best known for, and while it's hard for me to look at that very first fic without cringing, I try and take my chagrin as an indication that I've grown as a writer these past two years. *hopes madly*
...H/c is my passion, so.I wish I could explain my love for hurt/comfort, but honestly I don't know where it comes from. I've spoken to other h/c fans about this at length, and many of us share similar childhood experiences -- even at a very young age we enacted h/c fantasies on our dolls or stuffed toys. The bear would break his arm and the dog would have to take care of him, or Barbie would fall ill and her friends would come by with soup. Things like that. Many of us also agree that we were writing fanfiction in our heads long before we knew what "fanfiction" was -- I, for example, used to put myself to sleep at night imagining scenarios in which Shawn Hunter broke his leg and Corey and Topanga helped him carry his books and stuff.
In my head I differentiate between "hurt/comfort" and "whump" -- I am not very interested in impermanent whump, which I see as the beating-up of characters just for the sake of beating them up. I'm more interested in the emotional aftermath of injury, and the impact it has on character's relationships with one another. Ultimately I think it has to do with a certain vulnerability -- to be injured is to be made vulnerable in a physical, un-ignorable way. Unlike emotional trauma, physical trauma is more difficult to mask, and so for an emotionally-wounded-but-desperate-to-hide-it character like Dean Winchester, injury exposes him in a way that nothing else can, and it's fascinating to me. It forces a different kind of behavior, a different treatment, a new slant on things.
I've said many times that I think h/c is the porn of gen, and I do think h/c functions a lot like porn in many ways. There is a physical component, with a build-up (the hurt) as well as a "release" (the comfort). When characters are hurt they are treated differently, more tenderly, more physically.
I could go on about gender roles and role-reversal and stuff like that, but I'll spare you. Suffice to say -- in fandom in general, the characters that get whumped the most tend to be the most hyper-masculine characters (who are of course soft and gooey inside). Interesting, I think.
Anyway, yeah, I don't know. I just really love h/c. More h than c, and preferably permanent, LOL. I love me some permanent injury fic. Any flavor.
You should write some permanent injury! You should you should.