[FIc] "Second Chances" -- Daredevil (MCU)
Jan. 1st, 2017 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingToday is Daredevil Secret Santa reveal day! Here is the story I wrote:
Second Chances: When Foggy meets an old acquaintance who's fallen on hard times, he naturally does his best to help. When this leads to romance, he couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. Foggy/OMC, Foggy/Matt. (14,825 words, written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
iraya)
[ETA: As of mid-2017, I have revised this story to improve narrative flow and insert a scene I didn't have time to write the first go-round, so it is now 17,550 words long. Oops?]
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So uh, this story is a little bit of a mess still, which is my own fault for not starting it until very close to the deadline. I was avoiding it because the prompt asked for a type of tropey romance plot that I am very bad at writing. Unfortunately for me, iraya's other prompts asked for romance involving a ship that makes no emotional sense to me -- here is where I say, Your Ship Is Not My Ship, And That's Okay! -- each with some attached tropes that are emphatically Not My Trope (And That's Okay!), which meant this one was my only real option.
I ended up ditching a bunch of the specific details -- Foggy's new boyfriend being an actual supervillain, potential brainwashing scenes, potential cameos from the Avengers, weepy love confessions -- in pursuit of something that I could write while still approaching the general spirit of the prompt: Foggy starts dating an apparently reformed criminal, Matt is not pleased but doesn't really interfere, criminal returns to his old ways and tries to persuade Foggy to join him on the dark side, Foggy says no, and Matt saves him in the end.
I wrote from Foggy's POV because that was a more effective way to show his developing relationship with Ray, and I wanted to spend a lot of time on that and make it feel as plausible and healthy as possible so as to maximize readers' investment in Foggy's emotional conflict when Matt reveals that Ray has fallen back into crime. I also figured that Matt's POV would turn this into a different genre of story -- case!fic rather than relationship!fic, where after registering his initial dislike of Ray, he backs off and throws himself into his work until he reluctantly realizes that Ray and the target of his current investigation seem to be the same person. (If I'd written in Matt's POV without changing the genre, his hypothetical continued focus on Foggy and Ray would rapidly get creepy/stalkery/possessive, which is not the target mood at all.)
Any sexual attraction Foggy feels toward Ray is entirely thanks to Vicky, who helpfully told me where to insert sentences in which Foggy thinks lustful thoughts or even just observes Ray's body in an appreciative rather than clinical fashion. She also had some suggestions for alternate titles, but in the event, the archive went live a few hours earlier than I expected so I figure I will stick with the current one (which is not terrible, but was intended as a works-in-a-pinch placeholder while I thought of something less generic).
I still want to make a bunch more edits to this story, and may post a revised version sometime in January. Until then, though, this is far and away the longest story I wrote all year and I'm proud that it hangs together considering how far outside my strengths it is, and the ridiculous time crunch I got myself into.
Second Chances: When Foggy meets an old acquaintance who's fallen on hard times, he naturally does his best to help. When this leads to romance, he couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, life is never that simple. Foggy/OMC, Foggy/Matt. (14,825 words, written for
[ETA: As of mid-2017, I have revised this story to improve narrative flow and insert a scene I didn't have time to write the first go-round, so it is now 17,550 words long. Oops?]
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So uh, this story is a little bit of a mess still, which is my own fault for not starting it until very close to the deadline. I was avoiding it because the prompt asked for a type of tropey romance plot that I am very bad at writing. Unfortunately for me, iraya's other prompts asked for romance involving a ship that makes no emotional sense to me -- here is where I say, Your Ship Is Not My Ship, And That's Okay! -- each with some attached tropes that are emphatically Not My Trope (And That's Okay!), which meant this one was my only real option.
I ended up ditching a bunch of the specific details -- Foggy's new boyfriend being an actual supervillain, potential brainwashing scenes, potential cameos from the Avengers, weepy love confessions -- in pursuit of something that I could write while still approaching the general spirit of the prompt: Foggy starts dating an apparently reformed criminal, Matt is not pleased but doesn't really interfere, criminal returns to his old ways and tries to persuade Foggy to join him on the dark side, Foggy says no, and Matt saves him in the end.
I wrote from Foggy's POV because that was a more effective way to show his developing relationship with Ray, and I wanted to spend a lot of time on that and make it feel as plausible and healthy as possible so as to maximize readers' investment in Foggy's emotional conflict when Matt reveals that Ray has fallen back into crime. I also figured that Matt's POV would turn this into a different genre of story -- case!fic rather than relationship!fic, where after registering his initial dislike of Ray, he backs off and throws himself into his work until he reluctantly realizes that Ray and the target of his current investigation seem to be the same person. (If I'd written in Matt's POV without changing the genre, his hypothetical continued focus on Foggy and Ray would rapidly get creepy/stalkery/possessive, which is not the target mood at all.)
Any sexual attraction Foggy feels toward Ray is entirely thanks to Vicky, who helpfully told me where to insert sentences in which Foggy thinks lustful thoughts or even just observes Ray's body in an appreciative rather than clinical fashion. She also had some suggestions for alternate titles, but in the event, the archive went live a few hours earlier than I expected so I figure I will stick with the current one (which is not terrible, but was intended as a works-in-a-pinch placeholder while I thought of something less generic).
I still want to make a bunch more edits to this story, and may post a revised version sometime in January. Until then, though, this is far and away the longest story I wrote all year and I'm proud that it hangs together considering how far outside my strengths it is, and the ridiculous time crunch I got myself into.
