The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Molly
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Molly |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Molly |
| Date(s): | May 3, 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Molly was conducted in 2002.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Well, I'd been writing extensively for X-Files and CSI at the time I discovered X-Men, so writing for a fandom just seemed like a natural extension of my love for the characters. The earliest X-Men that I published was "Generations," and the ones I haven't published that were early didn't really deal with the films or their chemistry- those were just givens in my work. My first X-Men piece, which I haven't posted here but I will post on my site (because while it is L/R, it's also vaguely L/Other) is called "He Wonders" and it is basically an internal dialogue where he wonders about this ghost of a memory of a woman, and how she effects him in the here and now. I guess if I had to characterize it, it would be more of a void... I feel like there's so much more to these characters than we see, and I feel the need to explore that. What happens when Logan outlives his great grandchildren? How does his past really fit in? What would Marie really do for him? X3 especially left a lot of questions for me, and I like to find a way to answer those in my fic.
I really love when there's chemistry between characters who are so *very* different. Wolverine and Rogue, Jim and Blair, Lex and Clark... it provides a challenge in writing a convincing bond between them, whether it's a strong friendship or love or just pure lust. I saw the movie and absolutely adored the way that they were shown: as almost opposites, with no real basis for caring about each other except for things they go through together. I mean, for all the pain and trauma and angst I like to put characters through, I'm a romantic at heart, and I like to think that reality can make people important to each despite themselves, and by accidents of fate. So that's what drew me there.
As for other couples... yeah. *g* Magneto/Xavier, for much the same reason-- the fundamental differences that appeared between them, and yet those shades of knowing each other so well and with reminiscent fondness. (Thinking of this, it's no surprise I'm falling into Smallville slash. Pretty much exactly the same relationship structure, only presented at a different point in its progression.) Also, Scott/Rogue was a pet love of mine last fall, for that challenge of having to *work* to make them believable together, since they don't seem to automatically belong with each other.
Logistically, there's an extra Tab B, no Slot A, and man, Slot C is, yes, pretty different. But that's just pesky biology getting in the way. *g* To be serious (who, me? Naah) I tend to approach slash and gen with a different view of emotional/personality dynamics. While I don't believe there are any definitively set patterns for het relationships as opposed to gay/lesbian relationships, I do think they tend to play out differently. Especially in the context of writing about established characters who are, by and large, originally presented with some measure of accordance with mainstream gender role expectations. I mean, Rogue is presented as having obvious and intentional conventionally feminine qualities, while Logan is *not*. Nor is Scott. So given the same scenario for an L/R story and an L/S story... they're going to be different stories. The characters are going to say different things, have different reactions, want and expect different things, so even if I start with the exact same variables, things will progress differently.
I also approach slash differently. I'm writing it for different reasons, for a different interest. So that often plays out into different thematic patterns, different types of stories.