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Okay, I'll say this now: I actually dislike fanfiction or fan works in general. As a contributor on the cleanup forum for the Complete Monster trope over at TV Tropes, we were exposed to many terrible fanfics. Not only were they were heinous, but they were grimdark trash that often took children's shows and corrupted them so that they could introduce subjects like murder and all other morally apprehensive misdeeds despite the fact that the canon series had no such thing. From My Little Pony to Pokemon, there was bad example after bad example. Now, I will be one to admit that there are a few gems here and there, but otherwise, I hated them because they were usually horribly written, or they were dark for the sake of shock value written by hacks who think they're being edgy.

But then there came Requiem for a Loud by UnderratedHero. Just....my god. I had happened to read up on the summary of the plot on TT, and I figured, well since I'm already in a low mood, this won't be that bad. But I was far wrong. This fanfic, despite it having some broken English here and there, was one of the saddest things I had ever read. It even made me cry bitterly at some points. No other story, or movie that I've seen can attest to that. I wanted to pull away and stop reading it as I knew where this would all lead, but I couldn't; I was so wrapped up in the story, that I wanted to pursue it until the end. The tragedy is just heartwrenching. Lincoln having two weeks to live was hard to swallow already, but then his older sisters start to react and.....just my god. It is absolutely saddening to see how they're taking the news, particularly Lynn as she feels that it's her fault about what's to happen to her brother. Of course, I won't go into full detail about what happens as I expect that a majority of you have also read the story up to a certain point.

The fanfic's not even over yet, but it left such an impression on me. In fact, the fanfic nearly caused me to drop the actual show altogether as I couldn't even look at Lincoln the same way again. His white hair only reminds me of the fact that he was to die in the fan work, and that just made it even more upsetting on my part. It just felt that something like that could actually happen in the show. OK, so Nick wouldn't allow that episode to fly on any circumstance, but it just felt so realistic. I really liked the story - even though it's damn depressing - so much so that I wrote a response to it that took place years after the original story. Even UnderratedHero himself liked my take on it, though he did say that I should've waited until the actual story was finished which made me feel guilty for jumping the gun. The story isn't perfect, I'll admit that much, but I made it to show that I appreciated his story, though I felt that maybe I should've deleted it because it seemed most were thinking that I needed to match the atmosphere of the original story when clearly I had no intention of doing so. Given that four years passed, you could say that all of the events of the actual story were in hindsight. And now, I probably unintentionally caused him to hate me, because I was contemplating to him that I intended to delete my take on Requiem, and that I said some slightly sarcastic words when he was giving his nuggets of wisdom to me.

Well, in all cases, I had since dropped the story, not because it's bad, but I just can't take anymore. I don't have the willpower to finish reading it as I know how it will end. We all do. I just don't want to feel anymore pain from the fic, so I don't intend to read it, at least for a very, very long time. I can say, it did inspire me to get interested in writing fanfics to practice my writing, even though I personally feel they're shitty, so there's that.
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ninjakingofhearts's avatar

I say you're a jerk for killing off Lincoln!