>> Wow I love how this jumped headfirst straight into the action. <<
I find that Avengerfic lends itself well to beginning in media res because the audience already knows what canon-typical violence looks like and the real focus of the story is often on something else as a result of the conflict situation.
>> I had the scenes playing through my head like a movie thanks to your great details and clarity XD <<
Yay! I've always been good at description, but the 'cinematic' flavor is relatively new for me, something that has developed in the last few years as I've explored scriptwriting and comics. Once I start thinking about camera angles and such, it seeps into the writing if I'm working a piece that reconates with that. So the combat scenes in my Avengerfic tend to draw strongly on the movies.
>> I can already sense the feels incoming for Natasha. <<
Yes, although she's got things shut down pretty hard right now. Whereas some of the Avengers response to stress by getting anxious or hostile, Natasha turns mechanical.
It's a key reason why she has such a complicated relationship with Bruce-and-Hulk, because Bruce also tends toward the emotionless side as he dumps all that stuff on Hulk.
>> She definently needs to be Natka for a while, and this is a great chance to explore her character a little too. <<
Yes, exactly. It takes a while for her to unpack, unwind, and open up but that's very much what she needs.
>> Beautiful update, I can tell I'm going to love it like the others :) <<
That's good to hear.
>> *Has a moment of silence for the lost cake...* <<
Sooth. I use small concrete details to underscore emotional content. So there's a running motif of happy things lost, broken, and abandoned in this scene.
It's also a way to emphasize the aftermath of battle, what a mess it makes, and how somebody has to clean all that up eventually. That's a major theme for this series, as contrasted with comic canon where the aftermath usually gets handwaved away.
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Date: 2013-04-23 09:21 pm (UTC)I find that Avengerfic lends itself well to beginning in media res because the audience already knows what canon-typical violence looks like and the real focus of the story is often on something else as a result of the conflict situation.
>> I had the scenes playing through my head like a movie thanks to your great details and clarity XD <<
Yay! I've always been good at description, but the 'cinematic' flavor is relatively new for me, something that has developed in the last few years as I've explored scriptwriting and comics. Once I start thinking about camera angles and such, it seeps into the writing if I'm working a piece that reconates with that. So the combat scenes in my Avengerfic tend to draw strongly on the movies.
>> I can already sense the feels incoming for Natasha. <<
Yes, although she's got things shut down pretty hard right now. Whereas some of the Avengers response to stress by getting anxious or hostile, Natasha turns mechanical.
It's a key reason why she has such a complicated relationship with Bruce-and-Hulk, because Bruce also tends toward the emotionless side as he dumps all that stuff on Hulk.
>> She definently needs to be Natka for a while, and this is a great chance to explore her character a little too. <<
Yes, exactly. It takes a while for her to unpack, unwind, and open up but that's very much what she needs.
>> Beautiful update, I can tell I'm going to love it like the others :) <<
That's good to hear.
>> *Has a moment of silence for the lost cake...* <<
Sooth. I use small concrete details to underscore emotional content. So there's a running motif of happy things lost, broken, and abandoned in this scene.
It's also a way to emphasize the aftermath of battle, what a mess it makes, and how somebody has to clean all that up eventually. That's a major theme for this series, as contrasted with comic canon where the aftermath usually gets handwaved away.