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.

[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.)