Re: Of course, but not for this.

OT: Pluggage, with all respect... by Gandalf the Beige on 2010-04-01 02:43:00 UTC Reply

I always like the premise of the movie Back to the future... as well as everything. else about it. But the idea of being forced back in time and, in addition to trying to find a way back home, to have to help your parents get together to save your future hide always appealed to my inner 'shipper.

So... I just got the first chapter of a new fanfic up. It's been forming in my head for years but other projects (including ones that are going or went nowhere) distracted me from it. It's basically set in a possible future of the underGRADS canon, where one of the kids gets sent back in time by a government/university experiment gone wonk... and, as well as trying to get back (and getting their own parents together), decides that they have to be the ones who get together the parents of two of her best friends and try not to reveal too much to her only confidant... her future godmother. Because (it is written that) to know the future is to be trapped by it... but to know that there IS a trap is the first step in evading it.

And this kid likes being trapped.

Of course, it may also be a very detailed dream.

For a link to the prologue/first chapter:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5856773/1/Click_Tock

Re: OT: Pluggage, with all respect... by orangedream13 on 2010-04-01 12:59:00 UTC Reply

sure, but why not subvert/invert this by having a story about a suicidal protagonist who goes back in time to keep his own parents from getting together so that he never exists?

Plus... by Gandalf the Beige on 2010-04-01 19:38:00 UTC Reply

I plan to make the Traveller somewhat Genre Savvy

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreSavvy

They DID watch Back to the Future and understand, to a point, the concepts of paradox and causality.
Of course, but not for this. by Gandalf the Beige on 2010-04-01 16:50:00 UTC Reply

I find that an extremely interesting idea as well (and actually postulated that for an alternate ending to a Rose Weasley suicide fic by a Hermione fan and former pseudo-H/Hr fan by the name of pstibbons.

However, personally... I just find the whole concept of suicidal tendencies to be so messed up (less a pain that is so great and so terminal that it cannot be cured) that I would not normally even think of such a thing.

I appreciate your view though... And are you new here, I seem to have missed your into thread?

Re: Of course, but not for this. by orangedream13 on 2010-04-03 03:36:00 UTC Reply

I've been here since january but I don't post that much.