I'd say, lad, that it's a lack of understanding, possibly combined with the secret (or not so) desires of said fict writer. For one thing, given the amount of adolescents or young adults writing fanfic, their hormones converting them into a sexual internal combustion engine (and how's THAT for an awkward metaphor?), they're not interested in writing about friendship as much as they're out to write about GETTING IT ON!!! After all, pornography wouldn't be the billion-buck biz it is if they just showed people being friends. (Although wouldn't that be a nice change?)
But I have a feeling that most fic (or at least a darn good part of it) represents the writer's urge to have a relationship with a character through Mary Sue / Marty Stuism. At such an age, that's likely to be a sexual one. (If you were, say, 11 years old, you'd probably just wanna be Captain America's or Batman's best friend.) Since "pairing" seems to be the be-all-and-end-all of the majority of fics (God help us if PLOT were required, or ACTION, or STORY, or...well, fuggedaboutit), all they can do is posit a sexual relationship, vying with each other to stake out the next Forbidden Territory, until...well...there doesn't seem to BE an until.
It takes a little perspective to be able to write about friendship, familial relationships, even business relationships with any accuracy. I've always contended that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were able to do such a convincing "family" take on the Fantastic Four because both of them were married and had families, and had them for a long time, by the time they started the book. Some things you just can't fake. Or if you can, you're damned good.
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Date: 2004-01-12 05:55 pm (UTC)But I have a feeling that most fic (or at least a darn good part of it) represents the writer's urge to have a relationship with a character through Mary Sue / Marty Stuism. At such an age, that's likely to be a sexual one. (If you were, say, 11 years old, you'd probably just wanna be Captain America's or Batman's best friend.) Since "pairing" seems to be the be-all-and-end-all of the majority of fics (God help us if PLOT were required, or ACTION, or STORY, or...well, fuggedaboutit), all they can do is posit a sexual relationship, vying with each other to stake out the next Forbidden Territory, until...well...there doesn't seem to BE an until.
It takes a little perspective to be able to write about friendship, familial relationships, even business relationships with any accuracy. I've always contended that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were able to do such a convincing "family" take on the Fantastic Four because both of them were married and had families, and had them for a long time, by the time they started the book. Some things you just can't fake. Or if you can, you're damned good.
That's just my take on it.