No, see, the brilliantness of that fic is that it may take a village to raise a child but it TAKES A FUCKING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE to make Rorschach borderline functional.
and I love that at best, it's *borderline.*
You absolutely keep them true to character. I mean, the canon characters, imho, are as fucked as they are because, while Dan is easygoing enough to tolerate R. much longer than anyone else would, by the same token, without a catalyst like a FUCKING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, he doesn't have to chutzpah to take Rorschach, um, in hand the way he needs to be, um, taken. You don't warp the characters out of true, you just provide one hell of a catalyst.
As for crack: god, this fandom is nothing if not on crack. It's been on crack from the beginning. And your zombie epic is practically canon compared to, say, the Wanda Kovacs babymama epic, or the High-School-Phantom-of-the-Opera epic, and I'm currently loving the latter more than life itself.
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Date: 2009-05-07 06:49 am (UTC)and I love that at best, it's *borderline.*
You absolutely keep them true to character. I mean, the canon characters, imho, are as fucked as they are because, while Dan is easygoing enough to tolerate R. much longer than anyone else would, by the same token, without a catalyst like a FUCKING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, he doesn't have to chutzpah to take Rorschach, um, in hand the way he needs to be, um, taken. You don't warp the characters out of true, you just provide one hell of a catalyst.
As for crack: god, this fandom is nothing if not on crack. It's been on crack from the beginning. And your zombie epic is practically canon compared to, say, the Wanda Kovacs babymama epic, or the High-School-Phantom-of-the-Opera epic, and I'm currently loving the latter more than life itself.
So go forth and write porn.