Take me, for I am yours! No kidding. I don't have a social life, anyways, so really this is a step up for me.
Uh... well, what I really mean to say is that I have a creative mind and I am a huge geek, so talking about your story would be super-fantastic. I love talking characterization, it's almost as fun as the story themselves.
And, I wouldn't worry too much about your story's reception - the one thing that you've got going for you is a solid plotline (which is more than most fanfiction writers go on) and a pretty unique writing style. The one thing you need to remember is that you're not making all of our beloved characters into psychopaths - there is no sudden loss of conscience. The thing that makes them real is that they KNOW what they are doing is wrong, and they do it anyways - I mean, it's just the reasoning behind it that's different.
It's almost the same way Atlantis could actually end up, if they were pushed too far. Torturing Kavanaugh 'cause they thought they'd been betrayed? Totally canon. They couldn't even apologise afterwards, because they'd made the right call. I see this as... a world where their options have been severely limited, and the sense of loyalty to the Atlantis Family (and that may as well be canon, too) is stronger than their ties to the rest of the world. Even the law. The logic is kind of... "So what if you're killing a stranger, if it means you're saving a friend?" but it's there.
SO GLAD that you have a Rodney in this, though.
PS: If you want a bona-fide beta on top of a rubber wall to bounce ideas off of, I'm your girl. Mostly because I can be a vicious, vicious grammar shark. It's part of what makes my life worth living.
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Date: 2007-10-12 05:36 am (UTC)Uh... well, what I really mean to say is that I have a creative mind and I am a huge geek, so talking about your story would be super-fantastic. I love talking characterization, it's almost as fun as the story themselves.
And, I wouldn't worry too much about your story's reception - the one thing that you've got going for you is a solid plotline (which is more than most fanfiction writers go on) and a pretty unique writing style. The one thing you need to remember is that you're not making all of our beloved characters into psychopaths - there is no sudden loss of conscience. The thing that makes them real is that they KNOW what they are doing is wrong, and they do it anyways - I mean, it's just the reasoning behind it that's different.
It's almost the same way Atlantis could actually end up, if they were pushed too far. Torturing Kavanaugh 'cause they thought they'd been betrayed? Totally canon. They couldn't even apologise afterwards, because they'd made the right call. I see this as... a world where their options have been severely limited, and the sense of loyalty to the Atlantis Family (and that may as well be canon, too) is stronger than their ties to the rest of the world. Even the law. The logic is kind of... "So what if you're killing a stranger, if it means you're saving a friend?" but it's there.
SO GLAD that you have a Rodney in this, though.
PS: If you want a bona-fide beta on top of a rubber wall to bounce ideas off of, I'm your girl. Mostly because I can be a vicious, vicious grammar shark. It's part of what makes my life worth living.