The Het Girls Creed

[redbrunja]

I love my friends, but they are all slashers.

I am not.

So here follows the het girl's creed- an open love letter to why I love het.

Because the best-written het has a relationship between two people with different views and the world, different perspectives, who are nevertheless equal.

But really, because I like girls. In lots of shows girls, women, they get the short end of the stick. It's hard to find cool female characters in books and movies. I challange you to find a female Light who's in a series anywhere near as popular as Death Note, much less the main character. When I was younger, one of my first critiera for reading a book was, "Is there going to be a girl in it?" I didn't demand that they be the protaganist (though I prefered it that way) but that they at least should be a main secondary character.

I stil like and relate to girls. So slash really doesn't have a draw for me- and for shows like Death Note or Saiyuki, I don't need to spend more time with the guys. I see that from the source text. What I'm intrested in are the women, the characters who don't get that massive amount of screen time. I want to know why Yaone willingly walked into the Centipede Demon's lair. Did she do it because she was ordered to? Because she thought she was saving her village? Why? I want to know what happens when Light's little sister comes across a scrap of the Death Note (what do you bet she likes apples?) I want to know why Naomi willingly gave up her badge, and how she caught her first serial killer, and how many times she's gone through the door with gun in hand (I highly doubt Kira was the first case where SHE was risking her life.) Most especially, I want to see Naomi and L working together. These are the stories I want told.

And also, I like romance. I just do. I like that little giggle I get when I know the characters like each other but they haven't admitted it yet. I like watching two characters snip at each and realize that there's a little bit of attraction hidden in there. I like it when two characters are enemies but cant seem to treat each other that way. I love when it's clear that two characters really love each other, are married and still so in love.

That's why I love het.

Comments

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

Have you read my fic Fratricide? It's a 6600 word Supernatural fic with about 800ish words of a non-explicit one night stand Dean has with this girl he meets in a bar when he's in desperate need of a distraction from the fact that Sam is possessed. This girl informed me that I wasn't allowed to just finish the fic and have that be that, because whether I liked it or not, he was coming back, and over the course of a rather long amount of time, she would make him hers. So OFC meets up with Dean and... type fic.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yay! I could do with some good Dean mets girl and takes a tumble!

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read fratricide, you should. The girl doesn't have a huge part, but it's where she is introduced.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

When I have a free minute (not now, it's midterms) I'll give it a read.

[wishforhome.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling -- just got done with mine.