Dramatic question

[kenaz]

So.... is it better to kill off the completely inconvenient wife who is only evident in canon because her son wasn't hatched from an egg, or have her Go West, somewhat petulantly? Trying to not to entirely demonizing a non-character, while also not wanting to be overly sympathetic, and leave slashy husband some leeway for technical infidelity without making him a total cad.

Talk amongst yourselves.

File under: #fanficproblems; #loomingdeadlines; #ohshitnotdoneyet

Comments

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

I definitely don't want to vilify! Her spouse wouldn't have been easy, I don't think, so I don't blame her for being unhappy. I think what has really thrown me for a loop here is just her complete absence in canon. There's just nothing to go on-- which you'd think would allow me to throw wide the gates, but instead it's tripping me up. I've probably bitten off more than I can chew-- I really don't know what I'm doing any more and it's a mess. All I have to go on is her totally well-adjusted son, which suggests that they were able to make the marriage work insofar as they didn't antagonize each other in front of the kid... but trying to build up an explanation for that absence that doesn't dominate the rest of the story is hard. Which is my own fault-- the idea for the story germinated before I had really thought through the explanation of the wife's absence. Ugh, now I'm just talking myself in circles.