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Title: Fate and Metaphysical Aid
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/T; some vampiric violence; deals with internalized homophobia.
Character/Pairing: Vanessa, Dracula, Mina, Vanessa/Mina, Vanessa/Dracula
Summary: Dracula offers another temptation to Vanessa. Slight AU of 3.07.
Also diving into another TV fandom, this one less intimidating to me. I have a lot of things I want to write for Penny Dreadful; this one felt easiest to start with, as a very slight, contained, single-scene canon rewrite.
What was trickiest about writing this was trying to shift to Penny Dreadful's characterization of Dracula characters after fic for the Stoker for novel for something like fifteen years now. I have strongly developed Dracula and Mina voices, and they aren't the characters from the show (also, let's be real, Penny Dreadful's Mina is obviously Lucy). Further complicating it, the dynamic in this particular fic is adjacent (but not identical) to one I've played with previous Dracula stories.
Twisting my head around changing it for these particular characters was lightly fun, even if I don't think I've totally succeeded - there a couple of lines here in particular where I think Alexander Sweet!Dracula sounds incontrovertibly like my novel!Dracula, but I'm going to let it stand.
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/T; some vampiric violence; deals with internalized homophobia.
Character/Pairing: Vanessa, Dracula, Mina, Vanessa/Mina, Vanessa/Dracula
Summary: Dracula offers another temptation to Vanessa. Slight AU of 3.07.
Also diving into another TV fandom, this one less intimidating to me. I have a lot of things I want to write for Penny Dreadful; this one felt easiest to start with, as a very slight, contained, single-scene canon rewrite.
What was trickiest about writing this was trying to shift to Penny Dreadful's characterization of Dracula characters after fic for the Stoker for novel for something like fifteen years now. I have strongly developed Dracula and Mina voices, and they aren't the characters from the show (also, let's be real, Penny Dreadful's Mina is obviously Lucy). Further complicating it, the dynamic in this particular fic is adjacent (but not identical) to one I've played with previous Dracula stories.
Twisting my head around changing it for these particular characters was lightly fun, even if I don't think I've totally succeeded - there a couple of lines here in particular where I think Alexander Sweet!Dracula sounds incontrovertibly like my novel!Dracula, but I'm going to let it stand.
