Subject: Awwwwe-some!
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Posted on: 2011-05-02 22:24:00 UTC
I don't even know Left 4 Dead, but I love this.
I gotta write some Parody Sue stuff myself at some point when my exams are over. Tell me if you wanna join in, I'd love your expertise :)
So, for this mission I decided to try something new and fun that maybe has been done before, but I haven't seen. I wrote the entire mission from the point of view of one of the canon characters involved. In this case, Nick.
Be warned, it's kind of heavy on the swearing. I mean, it's Nick. The man's vocabulary is dirtier than a used Dutch oven.
I also made up the fic, because the fanfictional elements I needed for where I intended to take this were way to narrow for me to just troll the Pit looking for one. To my knowledge, there is no Left 4 Dead 2 fanfiction starring a Fiery Redhead named Angela Destiny Norton who horns in on Ellis. Any resemblance to an existing fic is purely coincidental, not to mention unfortunate.
http://rc273.webs.com/mission3.htm
Kinda reminds me of the Fill the Plotholes I did with Nume and Cameo back when I was just starting to wrap my head around the idea of writing missions--only this is much, much better constructed. Seconding the love for Jack. It's not easy to make something like a zombie adorable, but you've done it!
The idea that the canons might be aware of the wrongness while being forced to act against their natures is creepy, and definitely reinforces the PPC's purpose. It's cool to get an outside perspective on the agents as much as the "badfic," too.
~Neshomeh
I know others have said this already, but the POV shift made this mission very entertaining. It would be fun to see different canon characters' reactions to the madness going on around them during a badfic.
Sad to say, I would probably be a lot better at L4D in this Suefluenced, where-are-all-the-zombies? version...
This is the magical land of L4D in which the zombies only show up to make the Sue look good so she can dramatically save her love interest or be dramatically saved by her love interest which never makes any sense because if she was that ridiculously competent she wouldn't need to be saved so it's clear at this point that the author's trying to make her not-perfect and failing or this entire thing is just one huge wish fulfillment.
*gasp* *wheeze*
I especially like how you did it from the canon's POV, that was a nice change of pace.
I don't even know Left 4 Dead, but I love this.
I gotta write some Parody Sue stuff myself at some point when my exams are over. Tell me if you wanna join in, I'd love your expertise :)
I loved it. You did great.
Different, but fun to read. And my fondness for Jack just keeps growing. He's so crazy and weirdly adorable, and makes me giggle. XD