The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with FyrDrakken

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with FyrDrakken
Interviewer:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive
Interviewee:	FyrDrakken
Date(s):	November 27, 2001
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Men
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with FyrDrakken was conducted in 2001.

Other Interviews in the Series

See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.

Some Excerpts

My roommate my freshman year in college was the one who led me to online fandom, which is where I first learned that not only do other people feel compelled to play with their favorite characters from books, TV and the movies but will actually write down and share the behind-the-scenes or after-the-action events that they've imagined.

For a certain period of my adolescence I thought I wanted to be a writer. This was actually a push from my relatives (largely my mother) who connected my love of books and occasional tendency to verbosity with a potential career. Turns out I have more of an editorial or even non-fiction mindset -- but damn if I can't run off at the mouth (or the keyboard) when I get a good topic.

Writing fanfic happens because A) I have these ideas and some of them are just too much fun *not* to share (and when I simply *tell* people about them I get presented with demands to *write* them properly), and B) occasionally it becomes necessary just to get these scenes and characters out of my head! An act of auto-exorcism, performed with pen and notebook or clankety little laptop computer...

In other fandoms, Star Trek: DS9 was my first fandom and Kira/Odo my first ship -- I have a very few stories in it. (One was even published in a zine --_Love and Justice III,_ as I recall.) If anyone still has any of my stories posted, they shouldn't have, because I tried to yank them all off the web years ago. Outside of fanfic, I write sometimes-voluminous letters and e-mails, and of course there were the inevitable school papers. (Including scientific papers, no less -- fun! Taught me to view it as "research" rather than "plagiarism," so long as I footnote it and give credit for exactly where I stole it from! ;-))

I really identify with Logan to a psychologically frightening degree, and of late Kurt has begun dancing (and also bamfing, backflipping, and tail-swishing) through my psyche until I think I can handle him nearly as well as Wolvie. I don't think I have any *least* favorites, so much as characters I just never got a real handle on. Like, I haven't put that much time and effort into getting into Jean and Scott's heads, so they don't really feel like characters so much as like vague outlines of stereotyped traits... :-(