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chocolate_chipOkay, so....
In A-Team fandom, Face has been cast as the weepy, raped, abused uke who cries in his sleep and secretly has even more issues than Murdock. Just... why, people? Is it because he's pretty? Is it because he's an orphan? I mean, if you really want to write about someone being gang-raped and tortured in a Viet Cong POW camp and going crazy from it, isn't the obvious choice sitting right over there with his invisible dog? (Not that I advocate anything like that, because I love my Murdock, but come on.)
I was browsing through one of the less cringeworthy of these fics, and while much of it was like, "uh, no," there were a couple parts that were so perfectly spot on that they made me squirm with glee. And I will paraphrase them here, because I am too lazy to go look up the fic again. (It's from a series called "About Face" if you really want to find it.)
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SCENE: Face has just been released from prison on parole, and he and Murdock are driving through the Sierra Madres when they notice that they are being tailed by the associates of a gang member that Face pissed off while in prison.
MURDOCK: You got your gun?
FACE: Murdock, I was paroled two hours ago! Where am I supposed to get a gun?!
MURDOCK: Glove compartment.
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SCENE: Face and Murdock have been pulled from a mountain river by the local sheriff, who is now threatening Face with parole violation (Face maintains that it was Murdock's gun and he never touched it) and grumbling about their "city boy ways".
SHERIFF: So, you mind telling me why your friend was carrying a gun, then?
FACE: Hunting?
SHERIFF: Hunting. With a revolver. Of course! Why not; you went white-water rafting without the raft!
FACE: [turns on his million-dollar smile] We city boys sure like to do things differently, don't we?
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Gyah! If you can write them that well and that in-character, then why do you deliberately choose not to??????????? T__T For most of the rest of the fic, Face was a self-hating emo bitch, so I stopped reading. I get enough of that in my own life, kthx.
There was a plotbunny up for adoption on that archive that tickled my muse. The person who came up with it had it as a B.A. solo fic, but I think it would be really interesting as a B.A. and Face genfic. *pets the bunny some more*
In A-Team fandom, Face has been cast as the weepy, raped, abused uke who cries in his sleep and secretly has even more issues than Murdock. Just... why, people? Is it because he's pretty? Is it because he's an orphan? I mean, if you really want to write about someone being gang-raped and tortured in a Viet Cong POW camp and going crazy from it, isn't the obvious choice sitting right over there with his invisible dog? (Not that I advocate anything like that, because I love my Murdock, but come on.)
I was browsing through one of the less cringeworthy of these fics, and while much of it was like, "uh, no," there were a couple parts that were so perfectly spot on that they made me squirm with glee. And I will paraphrase them here, because I am too lazy to go look up the fic again. (It's from a series called "About Face" if you really want to find it.)
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SCENE: Face has just been released from prison on parole, and he and Murdock are driving through the Sierra Madres when they notice that they are being tailed by the associates of a gang member that Face pissed off while in prison.
MURDOCK: You got your gun?
FACE: Murdock, I was paroled two hours ago! Where am I supposed to get a gun?!
MURDOCK: Glove compartment.
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SCENE: Face and Murdock have been pulled from a mountain river by the local sheriff, who is now threatening Face with parole violation (Face maintains that it was Murdock's gun and he never touched it) and grumbling about their "city boy ways".
SHERIFF: So, you mind telling me why your friend was carrying a gun, then?
FACE: Hunting?
SHERIFF: Hunting. With a revolver. Of course! Why not; you went white-water rafting without the raft!
FACE: [turns on his million-dollar smile] We city boys sure like to do things differently, don't we?
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Gyah! If you can write them that well and that in-character, then why do you deliberately choose not to??????????? T__T For most of the rest of the fic, Face was a self-hating emo bitch, so I stopped reading. I get enough of that in my own life, kthx.
There was a plotbunny up for adoption on that archive that tickled my muse. The person who came up with it had it as a B.A. solo fic, but I think it would be really interesting as a B.A. and Face genfic. *pets the bunny some more*
