You know? I just feel like internal monologue for Mulder and Scully is just... well. There's more to work with, because you have evidence of letters they write or their way of retelling stories and you've seen them in every situation imaginable and what have you. And that gives them a very specific voice that would be so SO easy to fuck up BUT. Like, you'd know if you nailed it, or if you didn't QUITE get it. If that makes any sense.
With Jack and Renee I feel like you only get to see a couple sides of them, making it a challenge to guess how they'd react in this situation and that situation. And THAT'S a challenge too, because while you know how they WON'T act, you don't necessarily know how they would. So that's up to the writer and you always do that so believably.
To sum up?
Mulder+Scully fic = more emotional spectrum to work from, very specific voices, easy to fuck up
Jack+Renee fic = Character knowledge drawn 99% from intense time-sensitive situations, very limited knowledge of behavior in other settings, must make educated guesses, just as easy to fuck up (if you guess wrong).
Like, you're drawing from what would SEEM to be their reaction to things, and not what you KNOW. SO much more up for personal interpretation.
Okay. So have I said enough yet? Have I confused you?
I've read like 2/5 things I'm supposed to. *snicker* So much to reaaaad. This is really grad school, huh? YEP.
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Date: 2010-01-04 11:48 pm (UTC)With Jack and Renee I feel like you only get to see a couple sides of them, making it a challenge to guess how they'd react in this situation and that situation. And THAT'S a challenge too, because while you know how they WON'T act, you don't necessarily know how they would. So that's up to the writer and you always do that so believably.
To sum up?
Mulder+Scully fic = more emotional spectrum to work from, very specific voices, easy to fuck up
Jack+Renee fic = Character knowledge drawn 99% from intense time-sensitive situations, very limited knowledge of behavior in other settings, must make educated guesses, just as easy to fuck up (if you guess wrong).
Like, you're drawing from what would SEEM to be their reaction to things, and not what you KNOW. SO much more up for personal interpretation.
Okay. So have I said enough yet? Have I confused you?
I've read like 2/5 things I'm supposed to. *snicker* So much to reaaaad. This is really grad school, huh? YEP.