Legend of the Seeker fic: Sneaking Happiness

Title: Sneaking Happiness
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Pairing/Characters: Darken/Kahlan
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2116
Summary: Set during the 'Reckoning' AU. When young Nicholas goes missing one afternoon, Kahlan is not only surprised by how concerned Darken is for his son, but is forced to consider some uncomfortable truths about her own feelings towards both Nicholas and Darken.
Warnings: None
Note: This is a collaboration written by hrhrionastar and meridian_rose as a gift fic for brontefanatic

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open

30 Day Fanfic Writing Meme – Day 13

13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Depends on the canon, I suppose. I don't use fanon too much but the Legend fandom has definitely developed tropes and ideas that have become part of the mythology for me. some of it is crack, like how Richard always stops to rescue animals, while other things are more considered, like stuff about the Mord'Sith hierarchy. There's bookverse too, which muddies the waters, so it can be hard to say what is definitively canon.

Discussions at the Palace often make me see Legend in a different way, as well as giving me plot bunnies. Sometimes I see poor choices in canon that make me label it as 'badfic' and get the urge to read or write fixit fic. Writing fic can make you get inside the characters heads more and change how you see them and thus the source – and trying to figure out the canon mythology/timelines etc can show you gapting plot holes of doom that make you wonder if the writers were even paying attention to the show bible. It can also highlight the underlying themes and motifs as you more closely examine the plot arcs and character motives.

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