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[roxy]

mecurtin pointed me towards metafandom and whoa—some very interesting posts there. Also--What the fucking fuck????? You have got to be kidding me...

It made me all thinky about writing, and specifically, writing characters of color, and I'll refrain from saying CoCs and snickering. See, this is why I very seldom *get* thinky.

It's a subject that gets kicked around a lot, one I find very interesting.

So, I got curious. Roxy, how many times have you written characters of color into your stories, lo, though your fandom is Anglo-Saxon as Anglo-Saxon can be?



Boys Of Summer: Pete, and his whole OC family of brothers and one sister. They played important parts in story

The Dog: one of the major characters in Lex's life in the story was a body guard, Robin Wald, a Black man. And actually, a cross-over character, Principal Hotstuff from Buffy

I'll Fly Away is a Pete-centric story, and most of the characters are Black. In this fic, Clark was the man on the outside. This came about mostly because I was thinking about diversity in the SV universe, using Pete as an interesting character, and Pete as a sexual character, which believe me—rare as hell. If you know a story in which Pete actually gets it on, let me know—bonus if it's one of the main players. I think I also realized that I had some kind of weird prejudice going on here that I'm not discussing right yet. I'll save that for another post.

Ripley parts one and two: one of Ripley's daddies is a man of color. Jordan, one of my favorite OCs. I didn’t make a big issue of it, he just was.

Honorable mention:

Brothers and Heroes: Clark picks up a mixed race boy in Thailand. That was to date, my only attempt to write a non-white character who wasn't black. Blink and you'll miss him

Edge of The Forest Alexei's story—the main character of Fire Bird. His first love (more or less) was a mixed race boy, Russian/African.

Mariposa: The opening is narrated by a person of color and an enormous Mary-Sue. (I am also the queen of self-insertion.) Hey if it was good enough for Hitchcock…I'm not sure if that counts as a CoC. *g*. I know I certainly am.

Also, coulkd someone remind me how that Five Pretty Good Stories I Wrote meme id supposed to go? And soon, in the space, SV ficlet! And The Joker! Yes! And some more SpN, I think! *G*

Shit, I missed you guys!

Comments

[ladydreamer.livejournal.com]

What the fucking fuck indeed. *hugs* Welcome back.

I don't write S1-3 as much as I'd like, but when possible and logical, Pete shows up. He's hard to write for me because they gave us so little of his character (and stole his plotlines for Lana), then made him a tool. It's hard to write him with the major players unless you do Plete, because it's weird with Clark or Chloe and I like him too much to put him with Lana! I wouldn't be opposed to creating (or borrowing) a girlfriend for him who deserved him.

You Make Me Sick: Michelle is black (although I mention it but once, she's in a few stories and will be getting a bigger part... whenever that issue comes up). Dr. Yeh's family is actually from Hong Kong. Mercy is Blewish (Black/Jewish), but she passes and since Clark isn't apt to notice, and Lex doesn't think about it, this probably won't be mentioned for a while.

I have a couple of unposted stories where I bring in Lena Luciano as a half-Latina friend of Lex, and her friend Marina who appears in stories without her. Domovoi, Lex's butler is of Slavic/Russian descent. I don't know how many stories he appears in.

Does Lex count when I make him Jewish? I didn't even think of Lana... but she's around. And I refuse to make her French, though, in If It Doesn't Fit, It's Ugly Anyway, she's part Kawatchi. I'm a little annoyed that they don't have more AM students at Smallville High.

I stick so closely to the canon characters that I don't give myself much chance to develop these characters sometimes, and OCs VERY rarely get a POV section (although Lena will) unless I'm borrowing them from comic canon. In my original fiction, I've felt much more comfortable trying to write PoV from CoC. One of these days I'm going to have to play with Andrea (from Vengence. Cause she's hot and Chloe wants her). Looking at this list, I probably need to write more CoC who are MALE. I really want to write a DIFFERENT black guy as J'onn J'onzz because that pretender on SV is a fraud. We also have a very pretty Victor Stone to play with, if you're working the later seasons. (And now my evil brain wants Victor/Chloe to piss off Pete.)

[(Anonymous)]

WRT recasting J'onn J'onzz, he is, of course, a shapeshifter. :) May I suggest Carl Lumbly, who does J'onn's voice for Justice League?

--Jessica

[ladydreamer.livejournal.com]

I could deal with Carl Lumbly. I didn't have anyone in mind, really. It's not the actor that's displeasing me though, but the fact that they ignored his backstory and roped him into that strained, ridiculous Jor-El plot. I don't want a knock-off Martian Manhunter, who is just a minion of Jor-El.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Perfect choice, looks-wise. I agree with ladydreamer what's this thing about Jor-El and J'onn J'onzz being buddies or whatever from way back? I know that everything in the DC vers has been ret-conned and twisted out of the shape it was when I were a wee girl, but really--that's silly.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

And now my evil brain wants Victor/Chloe to piss off Pete.
Wow, you are evil!
Does Lex count when I make him Jewish?
Well, it adds to the diversity, doesn't it? *G*