The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Elizabeth

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Elizabeth
Interviewer:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive
Interviewee:	Elizabeth
Date(s):	July 18, 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 Elizabeth was conducted in 2004.

Other Interviews in the Series

See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.

Some Excerpts

I started writing fan fiction in 1999. I'd been lurking in the Buffy fandom for a couple of years--I started watching the summer after season two ended, and was a Buffy and Spike fan from the get go. At the beginning of season four, Entertainment Weekly ran an article in which Joss Whedon was quoted as saying that nothing would ever happen between Buffy and Spike. I thought "@#^$^#$! Nothing? Is the man insane?" and wrote a story ("Achilles Heel") because I figured if Joss wasn't ever going to do something with Buffy and Spike, I could at least write the story I'd like to see for them. So, in my extremely long-winded way, I started writing fan fiction because I wanted to tell stories that I didn't think I'd ever get to see happen, and it still plays a pretty large role in why I write and what I get out of the experience. For me, writing fan fiction is a way of playing 'what if.'

Well, in general, I think how mutants view humans depends on the mutant, and I think how humans view mutants depend on the human, which is one of the reasons why I think stories about human/mutant interaction are so fascinating. You've got a whole range of responses that are possible.

As for Rogue and Logan's take on humans--hmmm.

Rogue still remembers humanity and the first movie did a great job of conveying the total loss that mutation can bestow. So I suspect on some level she not only misses being human, but sometimes longs to be--especially in light of her particular mutation.

Logan, on the other hand, is angry at humans, I think, but then I think he's angry at just about everyone. I think he blames humanity for what's been done to him, but, at the same time, I think he sees them as being about the same as mutants--let's face it, esp. in the first movie, it's not like the mutant community was one he trusted either. I think he views everyone with an overly healthy dose of anger/skepticism. And based on what he's been through, who could blame him? The interesting thing about him is that in spite of all his issues and his anger, he's still capable of caring for people. His scene with Rogue towards the end of the first movie, when they are on top of the Statue of Liberty--oh, just thinking about it gives me goosebumps.

I think the term 'angst' has a lot of negative connotations these days, as some readers seem to feel it implies making characters suffer for no reason other than that the author can make them suffer. I'm not a big fan of that--making a character suffer for no reason--because there's no point to it, you know? I do, however, like stories that I feel deal with issues that would crop up for the characters and a lot of times they are complicated issues, issues without easy answers, and I do tend to write those kind of stories because that's what I'm interested in. So if that's angst, then I guess I do write that and yes, it is deliberate.