A thought before bed

[quietprofanity]

The Twilight Lady is like the cardboard box in the toybox that is the Watchmen fandom. Nothing's in it. It's really only surface. And yet somehow everyone's got great ideas for it and wants to play with it.

(Not that I didn't give the box a spin ... noooooo.)

Comments

[flowerofsin.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with that. It's funny that we know so little about her from canon and yet she pops up in many different fanworks. *raises hand in guilt* You don't really see the same thing happening with some of the other minor characters. Maybe it's her connection with Dan that's responsible.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I blame Dan for it. Dan's got a connection to pretty much all parts of the Watchmen universe, though. Nobody goes to a party unless Dan shows up.

I used to be all, "Who cares about minor characters who don't do anything?" especially when looking at, say, the Harry Potter fandom and even though I read all the books I'm like, "Blaise WHO?" But then again I love this Captain Carnage fanfic of all things. That Silhouette fanfic on Yuletide was interesting, too, but I think I need to read it again because I had trouble following it.

[ook.livejournal.com]

There was a Silhouette fanfic on Yuletide? That's odd because I checked Yuletide several times and never saw that fic on the Search Results for "Watchmen." :(

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

It came up on the New Year's Resolution challenge here. I just caught it when I went back a few days ago looking through the old stuff.

[ook.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks! I recollect there was at least one other New Year's Watchmen fic too. :)

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

[checks] Oh ... yeah, I read that one when it came up on owlblot. It was good.

[i-am-your-spy.livejournal.com]

Huh. That one's awesome.

I have a thing for the minor characters.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Twilight Lady has sort of become the "Matt" of the Watchmen fandom--a very minor, attractive character with a connection to a more major character, and someone who a fanfic author can project pretty much whatever they need (or just want) onto. And the love interest/nemesis archetype is very popular. It's fine with me, since there are so few female masks and pre-Keene Act villains in canon. (The RPG sourcebook does flesh her out a little, and some consider it canon.)

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Matt is ... :/

And yeah, I'd agree with pretty all of that. Including the part about there being so few female masks in the Watchman-verse. :-(

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

D'oh, silly me. Matt is a Death Note character who is insanely popular in the fandom (and half of one of the most popular slash pairings) despite only having about two scenes in canon. He's become controversial for that reason: to some he's their favorite character, while others say his fans just project personalities onto him.

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Ah. Interesting. I've really got to pick up Death Note again, even if it will most likely make my feminist sense go beserk.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one of the risks of reading Death Note...

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

It's too bad, because I read the first ... three volumes, maybe? The one where Misa shows up at the end and it's her first appearance or whatever. So I love the mental dueling and L and all that and I'd love to get back to it but I'm like, "Ohhhh a rude awakening is around the corner, huh?"

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Misa makes me want to choke things, so I don't think you'll like where that goes...There's a lot to like about Death Note, but feminist it's not.