The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Brianna Aisling
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Brianna Aisling |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Brianna Aisling |
| Date(s): | June 7, 2004 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Brianna Aisling was conducted in 2004.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I’ve always been interested in writing. I have stories that I wrote from when I was in elementary school, maybe before then. I didn’t know fanfiction existed until about two years ago, when I came across an Inuyasha story and fell head over heels for fanfiction. The first fandom I started writing in was Ranma ½, a very complicated manga/anime to explain. The main characters liked each other, but could never get it together long enough to get together, and it was incredibly frustrating. Especially when I came across websites that put them together with other characters. I started to write fanfiction to keep from going insane with frustration, which helped a lot when I discovered they don’t get together at the end of the series and only because of their own stubbornness.
... I tend to ignore everyone except the characters I’m interested in. It’s especially true here, because I’m not so much a X-Men fan as I am a Logan fan and a Rogue fan and a Logan/Rogue fan.If I had to pick, though, Jean’s probably who I’d pick for a favorite. She’s a great foil for Rogue.
As for least favorite, from what I’ve seen, I think I can safely say that’d be Jubilee.
In the movie, Logan’s still very young emotionally. You can tell Rogue is the first person he’s experienced some kind of attachment to in a long time, if not ever. Rogue herself is very sweet and reserved, still unsure of herself.In Evolution, Logan’s much more mature than his movie counter part. He’s settled into himself and is comfortable being responsible for others. He’s still got issues, particularly with his past, but they aren’t as dominating as in the movie. Rogue’s a wild thing. She’s much more defensive than in the movie and she isn’t sweet, but she’s not exactly mean either. She’s also a great deal more dangerous given the number of people she’s touched.
The differences in personality aren’t that hard to adjust for when I’m writing. It’s easy for me to see the movie characters in the Evolution characters and vice versa. It’s the difference in the relationship between the two in both universes that I have to be careful of. In Evolution, Logan is Rogue’s teacher. There’s a greater stigma on that relationship than on a purely May/December relationship. Plus, the movie has laid a foundation for a Logan/Rogue relationship, whether or not it was intended. (My mother thought it was supposed to be a romantic relationship, and she wasn’t looking, or even open, to that sort of subtext.) The transition between platonic and romantic is easy with the movie. Not so much with Evo. The possibility is there, but not the foundation. I see them in a romantic relationship so easily that I forget that it doesn’t have that foundation to it.