The Ur Narrative
Dec. 7th, 2003 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdBeen thinking hard on this idea, ever since I first saw it. ::massages aching brain.::
My uberstory has to be Fall and Redemption. One character falls in some way and redeemed by the love of the other. The fall can be sexual, physical or emotional.
The physical is often called "hurt/comfort."
Sexual, I tend to refer to as "the Magdalene Myth" More correctly it could be called the story of Hosea. (For those who aren't up on minor prophets: Hosea married a slut. She gave him three kids [he claimed them as his] and left him for her lover. Her lover put her to working the streets, but Hosea made sure she was taken care of, without her knowing. Eventually, she came back to him, and renounced her wickedness. He took her back and loved her.)
Sometimes, I only show the fall. Sometimes, there is no redemption. Sometimes I just feel fluffy and ignore deep themes to write a quick BJ. But the big stories, the stories I'm proudest of, deal in this.
"Lost Blue" is a Fall story. Han didn't take his redemptive moment in ANH and the whole galaxy is paying the consequences.
"What Says the Wind?" is a Redemption story. Luke has fallen long before we see him. But through Ben Kenobi's teaching, he's freed, while Han's love gives him a wholeness, a balance between the sex slave he started as and the celibate Jedi he became. Han brings him fully back to being human, neither a subhuman toy nor a superhuman warrior.
"Illugi's Saga" is a quest story, the redemption there is not for our heroes, but for Ani Owanson, who is returned to mortal life through the love of his son for him, and the love of Han for Illugi/Luke.
"Hunter in the Shadows" is a literal descent into hell to retrieve the beloved.
"Off-duty" is set in the Mirror-verse. It's an ugly Fall story from McCoy's PoV, but within his compliance, Spock begins to exhibit both desire and gentleness for the man whose mind he has turned inside out. The redemption is only slight, and still very dark.
The Indy stuff is, so far, all Fall oriented and it's not showing any sign of redemptive themes. (Marcus/Henry is just fluff)
My Simon & Simon tends to the fluffy (or PWP), which doesn't lend itself to big themes.
My uberstory has to be Fall and Redemption. One character falls in some way and redeemed by the love of the other. The fall can be sexual, physical or emotional.
The physical is often called "hurt/comfort."
Sexual, I tend to refer to as "the Magdalene Myth" More correctly it could be called the story of Hosea. (For those who aren't up on minor prophets: Hosea married a slut. She gave him three kids [he claimed them as his] and left him for her lover. Her lover put her to working the streets, but Hosea made sure she was taken care of, without her knowing. Eventually, she came back to him, and renounced her wickedness. He took her back and loved her.)
Sometimes, I only show the fall. Sometimes, there is no redemption. Sometimes I just feel fluffy and ignore deep themes to write a quick BJ. But the big stories, the stories I'm proudest of, deal in this.
"Lost Blue" is a Fall story. Han didn't take his redemptive moment in ANH and the whole galaxy is paying the consequences.
"What Says the Wind?" is a Redemption story. Luke has fallen long before we see him. But through Ben Kenobi's teaching, he's freed, while Han's love gives him a wholeness, a balance between the sex slave he started as and the celibate Jedi he became. Han brings him fully back to being human, neither a subhuman toy nor a superhuman warrior.
"Illugi's Saga" is a quest story, the redemption there is not for our heroes, but for Ani Owanson, who is returned to mortal life through the love of his son for him, and the love of Han for Illugi/Luke.
"Hunter in the Shadows" is a literal descent into hell to retrieve the beloved.
"Off-duty" is set in the Mirror-verse. It's an ugly Fall story from McCoy's PoV, but within his compliance, Spock begins to exhibit both desire and gentleness for the man whose mind he has turned inside out. The redemption is only slight, and still very dark.
The Indy stuff is, so far, all Fall oriented and it's not showing any sign of redemptive themes. (Marcus/Henry is just fluff)
My Simon & Simon tends to the fluffy (or PWP), which doesn't lend itself to big themes.
