So....

[hmpf]

I've been bad. I've gone and read some fic. HL, Methos, my eternal number one fic reading fandom, the one I always keep coming back to.

And... there was some really nice characterisation there and all. And yet... suddenly, a bit of romance creeps in, and takes me right out of it, and I can't get back into the story, afterwards.

Why am I so bloody allergic to romance? It's not even like it would be out of character for Methos (unlike Sam and Gene, whom I really can't see having candlelight dinners and giving each other flowers)! Methos' entire relationship with Alexa is straight out of a romance novel. And I've written some bad romantic angst for him myself, in my very first fic, way back... Yet I can't read that kind of thing.

*sigh*

I also notice that I - hypocritically - tend to avoid fics featuring OFCs, and to some degree even OMCs. Hypocritically, because I've written both - in particular, I've written an OFC who's only a hair's breadth away from being a Mary Sue (maybe even is a Mary Sue) - and in a Horsemen fic, no less! I really should give some of those fics a chance.

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy reading OFC/Methos fic (and writing it) but it has to be just right. Though what makes it so I can never quite put my finger on. I'm just fickle [g]

[loz]

...unlike Sam and Gene, whom I really can't see having candlelight dinners ...

... it happens in canon, Hmpf!

But, actually, yeah, I do sort of know what you mean, mostly.

[unovis-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm not fond of romance in Highlander. It has to be very well done for me to read it in slash, and by someone I trust (I can see carenejeans waving her arms at me from the side). I avoid Methos/OFC like the plague, as with most het, unless it's highly recommended by someone who knows me. And even then -- ugh.

I try to write love without romance, when I can, which is a hard line to walk. I think most of my Darius/Methos things are like that -- you could try looking at "Of Late," and see what you think. It's not mushy and most of it deals with Darius facing the mortality of mortal friends.

But I love my OCs in other stuff, and Poor Roger has a romantic fool confronted with Methos at its heart. It's mostly about romantic disillusionment.