Hope Roy

Fan
Name:	Hope Roy
Alias(es):	hoperoy, sperare, starztomoonz
Type:	fan writer, beta-reader
Fandoms:	Smallville, Arrow
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URL:	Hope Roy works at AO3 sperare at IJ (defunct) sperare at GJ (defunct) hoperoy at LJ Hope Roy works at SSA
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Hope Roy was a Clark/Lex fanwriter from Smallville fandom. Her fics are still search, read, review and reccced years later after Hope disappeared from the internet.

Published fifteen works in automated archive Smallville Slash Archive between 2006 and 2008. A incomplet masterlist can be found in the LJ post Hope Roy's Fiction.

About LJ Exodus

Given the LJ exodus, I've opened journals at Greatest Journal and at Insane Journal.

[...]

I'd love it if all my LJ friends would friend me at those locations, as I don't want to lose contact with all of you.

That said, I don't particularly want to move away from LJ. I may not like how some things are going right now, but I don't think the answer is to move. After all, the LJ team didn't come up with the rule about not doing art involving minors or anything like that--they're simply trying to keep themselves out of trouble with the law, and I can't blame them. To me, our fights not with them. (Though the people who are going around reporting others make me annoyed)

I may not agree with the LJ team's opinions regarding fan fiction, but I think that if fandom moves to another site then it's likely that this will happen again. Wherever we move will start to get nervous about the stuff we post, you'll get people who go mad and report others just like they do here, and pretty soon rules will start to tighten up again just like they have been here.

I'd much rather stay here, where there's so much fandom history. You're not going to be able to find clex stories from 2002 on any other journal, simply because few people will bother to transfer them. Plus, many people have left fandom, so they aren't going to move their stuff.

I may be prepared to move, but I'm only going to do it if most everyone else leaves LJ. I also think that by some of us moving while others remain, we're losing strength, because the more of us there are in one spot, the harder we're going to be to ignore. It's not as though I relish the idea of having to check three different journals to find stories or the posts of my friends, either.

Basically, I think that we'd be better suited to stay put and try to ride this out. Then again, I don't pretend to know the whole story or to have followed this whole thing closely--I could be wrong. But until I see a real reason to move, I'm staying here at LJ.

– hoperoy lj post 

Works

Missing Works

Her works Art of War and Shade of Gray has become a common topic in search and sharing lost fanfics of the Clex fandom. Hope even sent a copy of AoW to some readers who asked her for the file in her comments section on LJ. But she does not wish them to be shared anymore.

• A Season of Memories: remove/deleted from FFN, What do you do in a world where your opinion no longer matters? – A collection of scenes from the Art of War Series. These take place in the forty years between Phoenix Falling and Phoenix Rising.

2006

• Parallels: available at LiveJournal, Sometimes old memories just die hard. PG (11/04/06) – Arrowverse-crossover
• Second Chances: part 1 available at LJ – part 2 available at LJ, Lex realizes that he didn't know what he had until he lost it. PG-13 (12/06/06) – Re-write of "Thirteen Going on Thirty" for the undermistletoe challenge!

2007

• Catharsis: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, After Lionel marries Martha, Clark's attempt to deal with his hurt leads him to a compromising situation that ends up having surprising results. NC-17 (02/23/07) – Written for the Kink/Cliché Challenge
• Contiguous: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, When Lex finds Clark after a serious accident, Clark discovers that things between them aren't as unfixable as he thought. PG-13 (05/24/07)
• Hands-On Experience: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark's class takes another field trip to the Luthor Corp plant. Lex helps him make the most of the experience. NC-17 (06/08/07) – Written for old_school_clex LiveJournal Community
• Coming Home: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, What if, instead of Lana, Clark had been the one who ended up in the panic room with Lex? NC-17 (09/21/07)
• Yesterday's Tomorrow: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Sometimes the best men don't always win, and even heroes fail. (AU after Vessel. What if Clark didn't defeat Zod?) NC-17 (09/21/07)
• Bound in Blood: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, While carrying out an investigation about strange events going on in a small village, Clark, a young investigative reporter, is kidnapped by Alexander, a vampire. At first, Clark only wants to leave, but as he gets to know Alexander better, he finds that he may not be exactly what he seems. NC-17 (11/15/07)
• This Time Around: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark learns that people can change, especially if they have the right incentive. Written for the undermistletoe challenge. PG-13 (12/20/07)
• What He Didn't Know He Needed: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark goes to his father's grave on Christmas Eve. PG (12/23/07)

2008

• Expectations: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Lex and Clark discuss Clark's reaction to having Lois in his lap. Coda for Exposed. NC-17 (01/27/08)
• Something Like Love: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Lex thought he was good at dealing with the unexpected. Clark gives him some news that makes him wonder if he was wrong. NC-17 (03/08/08)
• Seeing Red: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark knew Lex wanted answers, but he never realized just how far he was willing to go to get them. NC-17 (04/08/08)
• A Web of Lies: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark thinks that he's finally gotten everything he ever wanted. It doesn't take him long to find out that ideals seldom last. (AU after Promise) NC-17 (04/08/08)
• Adamantine: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Clark is coming home. NC-17 (05/29/08)
• A Picture's Worth: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, Pictures don't lie, even when Clark and Lex do. It's possible that a little truth is exactly what they need'€”even if it turns their lives upside down. NC-17 (06/08/08)
• Resurrection: available at LiveJournal, Lex comes back from the dead. He doesn't like what he finds. (AU after Exodus) NC-17 (06/21/08)
• Hidden Intentions: available at LiveJournal, After a failed mission for the fledgling Justice League, Clark finds himself completely at Lex's mercy. When Clark begins to feel sick, Lex's real intentions are revealed. NC-17 (06/26/08) – mpreg, abandoned WiP
• Like Shifting Sand: available at SSA – available at AO3 – available at LJ, What if the baby wasn't Jonathan's? R (09/27/08)

Fans Comment, Rec and Review

Comments

[rosemaryj]

My favourite author used to be Hoperoy who wrote a lot of evil lex hurt clark but that author has left the community now. I love a bit of abused clark at the hands of lex but i just dont no where to search anymore. Iv gone through gotclex and svfanfic but can't seem to find much.

Recs

[sussixer]

THis [This Time Around] is so sweet. Just lovely.

[twinsarein at crack-van]

This [Web of Lies] is simply the best characterization of Lex post-rift I have ever seen written. He is captured so well here and is so believable. He is so ruthlessly practical that it takes my breath away. The other characters in the story, Clark and Lana, were just as well written, but Lex's intensity just stole the show for me. This is not a story to be read passively, or at least neutrally, either. At some point you will want to smack each of the main characters upside the head in the hopes of knocking some sense into them, you will also feel sympathy for each of the three at some point (some more than others), you will by turns feel shocked, surprised, relieved, happy, maybe even turned on once or twice, but what you won't feel is bored or lackadaisical.

"You know what I'm doing, Clark."

"No, I don't!" Clark shouted, moving towards Lex with all the force of a freight train. "I don't know why you're trying to make me lose my childhood home!" he bellowed, raising his voice enough that it echoed off the walls of the room. "I don't know why you're trying to put me out on the streets! And I sure as hell don't know why you don't want me to be at all happy!"

By the time he'd finished yelling, Clark was breathing hard and his hands were clenched into such tight fists that his knuckles were white. He could feel himself shaking with anger.

Time seemed to stand still as they looked at each other, their gazes unflinching. There was a strange expression on Lex's face, but Clark was too far gone in his rage to understand what it was. He didn't even want to understand.

It was hard to choose a section to include because there is so much leading up to and away from every other part that I was afraid of loosing some of the quality of the intensity that this story is told with. This one works pretty well, but there was quite a bit that led up to the outburst from Clark.

Controversies

In one of her works, Seeing Red, Hope Roy writes a plot where Lex drugs and rapes Clark, but she denies that such aggression is abuse. Which clearly annoyed some readers, as can be seen from the publication of jane_elliot, in June 2010 at epic_rant LiveJournal Community:

[jane_elliot]

Lex, for reasons that really aren't nearly enough justification, doses a helpless Clark with liquified RedK and has sex with him. Clark doesn't take it well at all (as well he shouldn't).

First, I should note that that the author tries to emphasize in the story that the sex isn't rape (in fact she says that outright). However, when consent is impaired by forcibly holding someone down and injecting them with an inhibition-reducing drug against that person's will, any subsequent sex act that follows is rape in my book.

That said, I really wanted to rec this fic, because there are things I quite like about it. It's well written, the characterizations are good (though Clark is a bit more woobie than I'd like, but then again he just got raped), and Lex doesn't just get a free pass on the dub-con-bordering-on-non-con situation. The problem is that the non-con stuff takes up almost exactly 50% of the story, which leaves just 50% for Lex to somehow realize that what he did was wrong (and that isn't an instant realization), Clark to somehow forgive Lex for something pretty unforgivable, and for them to somehow move past all of that and reform a friendship, much less anything more. And, frankly, there just isn't enough story to make all of that believable.

Short version: this story is potent (both in good ways and bad) and if the latter half of it had been expanded to about three times its current size, the end product would have been amazingly good. As it stands, there's just too much of Lex hurting Clark and not enough of Lex making it up to Clark for me to give it a rec.

Subsequent comments on the post agree in gender, number and degree that drugging and having sex with a person is indeed rape, even if that person is a fictional alien.

[slyprentice]

I'm not sure how anyone could construe this as not being rape. I mean, Lex drugged and forced himself on Clark. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't care if he has super powers, is an alien, and lives in Kansas, he still has to be fully aware of his actions and give consent before I'm on board the 'this isn't rape' boat.

[jane_elliot]

The argument that it isn't rape is based on the fact that (after being kidnapped and knocked unconscious and drugged) Clark makes the first move. To me, however, the kidnapping and knocking out and drugging that comes first is far more significant than the fact that Clark (when high on RedK) initiated the encounter (especially since he only did so because he was seeking some sort of control in the situation and that was all he could figure out).

[slyprentice]

I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse but the part about Clark seeking some kind of control is kind of chilling in its own way.

[jane_elliot]

Yeah. I think it's supposed to mitigate things that Clark initiates the sex, but the fact that he feels that out of control even with the confidence provided by the RedK isn't a good thing.

[theficklepickle]

I'm with slyprentice - 'drugged into wanting it' is still 'drugged', and legally as well as morally that's rape.

[elspethdixon]

the author tries to emphasize in the story that the sex isn't rape

I don't understand the logic process by which drugging someone into having sex is not date rape.

And unfortunately, while rape itself is not an automatic dealbreaker for me in fic, the author insisting that something totally isn't rape when it clearly *is* is an automatic backbutton or "close this romance novel and give back to the library now/stop reading this comic," moment.

[jane_elliot]

I have to admit that I tend to give the Smallville fandom a bit more leeway than I usually do because Lex is (sort of) evil and Clark is an idiot. Even so, I needed a *lot* more emphasis on how wrong Lex's actions were (and, yeah, I would have *really* liked at least one of them mentioning that the sex simply wasn't consensual). *sigh*