But! Maybe I can write some meta. I got to thinking about the completely genderswapped dS universe, where everyone's always been the opposite sex. This is something I've had on my fic idea list for a while anyway.
How would Fraser's character change if he'd always been a woman? She'd've had an emotionally distant Mountie mother who was murdered, and be a Mountie herself. Her father died when she was six. She fell in love with a bank robber and brought him in despite that, and later he comes back to revenge himself. She's classically beautiful and has an obsessive sense of justice. She acts innocent and oblivious to put off flirting men (somehow I suspect that strategy would work less well for female Fraser).
Hmm, there's something about this that highlights the tragic aspects of Fraser's character? Women are not usually written as tragic in quite the way that he is. I can't quite get a grip on Fraser's character as a woman, to be honest. What are the differences in how it would play out?
Relatedly, do you think Fraser has a lot of manpain? Okay, Bob was pretty much killed to give him manpain in the beginning, sure. And he does have the world-resting-on-his-shoulders thing going on. But the Victoria arc is a bit different--she's not fridged or anything, and I feel that Fraser's pain is mostly for himself in those episodes. Hmm.
All right, that was your tiny spontaneous bit of meta for the day. : )
due South, always-the-opposite-gender AU, gen
But! Maybe I can write some meta. I got to thinking about the completely genderswapped dS universe, where everyone's always been the opposite sex. This is something I've had on my fic idea list for a while anyway.
How would Fraser's character change if he'd always been a woman? She'd've had an emotionally distant Mountie mother who was murdered, and be a Mountie herself. Her father died when she was six. She fell in love with a bank robber and brought him in despite that, and later he comes back to revenge himself. She's classically beautiful and has an obsessive sense of justice. She acts innocent and oblivious to put off flirting men (somehow I suspect that strategy would work less well for female Fraser).
Hmm, there's something about this that highlights the tragic aspects of Fraser's character? Women are not usually written as tragic in quite the way that he is. I can't quite get a grip on Fraser's character as a woman, to be honest. What are the differences in how it would play out?
Relatedly, do you think Fraser has a lot of manpain? Okay, Bob was pretty much killed to give him manpain in the beginning, sure. And he does have the world-resting-on-his-shoulders thing going on. But the Victoria arc is a bit different--she's not fridged or anything, and I feel that Fraser's pain is mostly for himself in those episodes. Hmm.
All right, that was your tiny spontaneous bit of meta for the day. : )