lunabee34

So, this only applies in a few of the fandoms I read. There's so much Supernatural fanfic that I can get my narrative kinks met by good stories, and will pretty much always back out of ones that are crappy, but there's not as much Ronon-centric or Teyla-centric SGA or Boromir-centric LoTR, so I'll take worse stories to get my fave character needs met.

* If the writer loves Teyla, Ronon, or Boromir as much as I do. Like, if you can tell they think s/he is 1,000,000 kinds of awesome, and will totally save the day. (This is predicated on No Character Bashing, which kills my squee. S/He can't be awesome at the expense of someone else.)

* Ronon- or Boromir-whump where he's still a totally bad-ass and awesome character.

* Teyla rescuing Ronon. Actually, Teyla/Ronon, though I can't be sure as I don't recall having read a bad one.

* Smart, savvy Ronon.

* Ruthless Teyla -- not evil. But ruthless, willing to do what needs to be done in order to accomplish an important goal, like saving Ronon her people. (Struckthrough because I haven't read one like that, but I TOTALLY WOULD.)

* Boromir Lives! And is not evil!

* Boromir Lives! AUs in which ruthless!Aragorn (but not evil! exactly) is paired with alpha!Boromir. *quivers*

(I'm looking for a pattern here. Maybe I'll be able to articulate it later, but I'm getting the sense there is one....)


Strangely, while I would think that all these narrative kinks would apply to Leverage/Eliot, they don't. I don't see them very often in Leverage and would love to, but I wouldn't read them if they were badly written. I wonder why.