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DENT (Part 3/??)
Jun. 28th, 2011 10:03 amTitle: Dent (3/??)
Previous Parts: | Prologue | One
Fandom: Batman (general comics continuity)
Characters: Harvey Dent/Two-Face, Gilda Dent, Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, Vincent Moroni
Genres: General, Drama, Angst, Romance
Rating: PG-13
This story contains: Alcoholism, brief mentions of child abuse, graphic violence, swearing, character death, sexual content
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
A/N: When I first set out to write Gilda, I wanted to make her something more than just the two dimensional saintly, suffering love interest that she's often been in canon, and avoid the more well known one dimensional mousy, crazy-wife version of The Long Halloween. She needed to be a character in her own right, which meant pretty much creating her from the ground up with the sparse details available in canon as her foundation. Over nine drafts, I struggled to perfect her, finding that she kept falling into those canon traps or, worse, becoming something of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
After a lot of refining, I think I've finally got her. It's about bloody time, too. As for her dynamic with Harvey, I like to think of them as John and Abigail Adams by way of Seth Brundle and Veronica Quaife, but we'll see how that shapes up over the rest of the story.
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Previous Parts: | Prologue | One
Fandom: Batman (general comics continuity)
Characters: Harvey Dent/Two-Face, Gilda Dent, Bruce Wayne, Jim Gordon, Vincent Moroni
Genres: General, Drama, Angst, Romance
Rating: PG-13
This story contains: Alcoholism, brief mentions of child abuse, graphic violence, swearing, character death, sexual content
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
A/N: When I first set out to write Gilda, I wanted to make her something more than just the two dimensional saintly, suffering love interest that she's often been in canon, and avoid the more well known one dimensional mousy, crazy-wife version of The Long Halloween. She needed to be a character in her own right, which meant pretty much creating her from the ground up with the sparse details available in canon as her foundation. Over nine drafts, I struggled to perfect her, finding that she kept falling into those canon traps or, worse, becoming something of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
After a lot of refining, I think I've finally got her. It's about bloody time, too. As for her dynamic with Harvey, I like to think of them as John and Abigail Adams by way of Seth Brundle and Veronica Quaife, but we'll see how that shapes up over the rest of the story.
( Read more... )
