My Guilty Pleasure Writing

We all have guilty pleasures. In fact, we all have several of them.

Here are some of mine.....

• French fries with salty sour cream.
• Puzzle Pirates or Diablo 2
• Silk
• Reading and writing Fanfiction (both erotic and non-erotic) [Fandoms- Forever Knight, La Femme Nikita the TV show, Dr. Who]

Now, I got to thinking about this because a) I've recently written some erotic fanfic, and b) one of my fanfic groups (Forever Knight) is talking about having our next round robin War.

I'm not the type to Mary Sue myself into a story. I'd have to go back, but I think every pure fanfic I've written (the FK War is a *completely* different creature) has only dealt with the canon characters. I do have a crossover between FK and a book universe in a very slow progress which has a prominent character of my own, but that would only be me if I was male and a vindictive vampire with a long view on unfounded revenge.

For me, it's how I view the characters in their base essence and how they would act given a different set of choices. Or put in different circumstances (in the case of crossovers).

What would LaCroix do if Nick turned Natalie into a vampire (FK)? What would the Doctor act if someone slipped him an aphrodisiac (Doctor Who, either Nine or Ten- somehow the other Doctors and sex seems much more sacrilgeous)? What would Nikita do back in Season 2 if Michael did come to her bed more often, despite the danger of them both being cancelled by Section (La Femme Nikita/TV)? What would Nick and Natalie do in a world where people knew about vampires, and Anita and her cohorts do upon meeting a vamp who was trying to become human (FK/Anita Blake crossover)?

And what my fanfic does, is to write out those questions and find the answer.

Note: When I mention to Oni and his wife (who are two of my best friends) that a FK War might be coming in a few months, I expect to get groans and other expressions of displeasure at the thought of my further disappearance. I'll warn everyone here too, because I *will* end up dropping out of sight when it happens (I happen to be a prominent of one of the very active factions and will be juggling my own contributions and the faction and the interactions with the other factions). But it looks like that won't be until January at the earliest.