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1. Why do you write fanfic?

Because I enjoy it. No, that's too easy, isn't it? I write it because I read/watch/play the original canon and think 'wait, what happened to minor character A who was only there for the first fifteen minutes/pages? She seemed way more interesting than major character B who did nothing for the entire book/film/series and yet somehow deserved his happy ending because he's so ridiculously pretty' and promptly go and write fanfic so that it doesn't bother me so much. :D

2. Are you usually happy with your finished work?

I am when I finish it, but I'll come back to it two months down the line and think that it's rubbish. Mostly. There are a couple of exceptions, but not many.

3. Is there a particular fandom you find easy to write for? Difficult? Why?

I find Battle Royale easy (as people may have guessed by now, right?) mainly because I was about that age when I watched the movie and...um...in Warrington, all of our news is about people getting beaten (sometimes to death) by psychotic teenagers, so...I could believe it would happen. I like to think of it as an AU where Daily Mail readers took over the government. *shot*

I find Doctor Who really difficult, since I like to really do research into characters before I write them and...almost fifty years of canon. Yeah.

4. Any special kinks you like to read/write about?

I occasionally like to read fluff. Not angsty stuff, unless it's well written (I know, considering my fandoms, I should love angst, but I don't). Um...I love AU's. Both writing and reading them, really.

5. What you hate about the fanfiction-verse.

- Ship wars. Look, Doctor Who fandom? The Doctor isn't human. He's not necessarily bound by our strictures on monogamy (and, let's face it, seeing as how he's at least a millennium old by now, he'd be ridiculously lonely if he was). It's even worse in Torchwood, since there's absolutely no reason to have ship wars...okay, maybe between Gwen/Andy and Gwen/Rhys, but that's another story.

- People sticking to one pairing and not changing. And yes, while I am somewhat guilty of that (hello Hirono, I guess?), I do try to vary pairings a little every now and then.

- High-school fics. Okay, if they're written well, then that's different, but most of them aren't.

- Mary Sues or OC's that don't contribute anything to the plot of the fanfic that they're in aside from 'oh s/he's so awesome and so beautiful and yet so sad and lonely'. Argh. Gag me with a spoon, please.

6. Anything you haven't written about, but would like to try.

I would like to write hurt/comfort. I'm not really very good at it, though. Um...I'd love to be able to write smut, but I can't. It says something about me that the only sex scene that I ever thought that I portrayed spot on was the rape of an eight year old girl by three men. Because creepy and disjointed adds drama to that kind of thing. Between consensual adults? Not so much.

7. What genre are you best at writing fanfic about?

AU doesn't count as a genre, does it? Um...I'm actually proud of my humour fics, so I'll say comedy. :D

8. Have you ever been flamed?

No. I don't think so. I don't remember (and I have a good memory for being offended, so I doubt it).

9. Lemons? (Oranges? Grapefruit?)

Enjoy reading, can't write.

10. List, from every major fandom you've written for, your best fics and a brief description of why.

This could take a while. Um. This is, of course, a very subjective list.

Battle Royale:

...Aside from the big epic script-fic crossover with Power Rangers? Okay.

My best on LJ has to be The End Doesn't Justify the Means..., a.k.a. my attempt at BR done in a kind of film noir style. I just...it all came about from one meme from

versipellis (some things never change, I guess *shot*) and a comment about Shinji making a great supervillain. I took it and ran with it. I was actually disappointed, in the end, that the theme was only for the eleven days, since I could have kept going. I think that I got the balance right, so that even though there's some humour (Hirono actually sneaking into Shinji's base in a leather catsuit comes to mind) it's just rather sad, and desperate, with a tiny bit of a hopeful ending and a twist. And what might have been the start of my 'let's torture Yutaka! phase'.

(Although, my favourite is Driven, which involves possibly the only instance of Iijima killing Kiriyama completely by accident. I wrote it in a night (which you can tell, because it's too short and not very polished) as a graduation present for

versipellis because we share very similar opinions on the fate of the three hackers from the movie (as well as a lot of other fandom things, but that was...mostly how our friendship started, as I recall). I love it because...I don't know. I just do. I reread it when I was trying to pick fics out and it still made me smile after three years.)

I should have a choice for BRII, but none of the fics that I wrote for that fandom were as good as I remembered, so...I don't, I'm afraid.

Doctor Who:

Hmm...I think that, because I find Doctor Who so hard to write as a fandom, that most of the fics that I've written for it have been better than my average.

So, my best (or at least, my best finished) fic for Doctor Who? I would say How Do You Solve A Problem Like The Master?, in which Harriet Jones (former Prime Minister...which reminds me, I must prompt something with her and Harriet Harman at some point on the kink meme *shot*) generally takes matters into her own hands. With a bit of help from some old friends. I like it because...I like Harriet. She's awesomesauce. And I think that I wrote it relatively IC too (no, she doesn't like aliens. Her idea of first contact is being chased around 10 Downing Street by farting creatures that want to rip her skin off, nuke her planet and sell off the pieces for scrap, so she's got incentive there not to).

And she could clearly deal with ~~David Cameron~~ Harold Saxon on her own.

Torchwood:

I don't have much in the way of Torchwood fic at the moment, so Hate on Valentine's Day will have to do. Well, Owen had the misfortune of being born on Valentine's. Which is not a good day to be born on if you're the least romantic member of an alien hunting organisation in which the average life expectancy (except for Jack, who doesn't count) is about 30 (although, I don't care what the official materials say, Owen clearly was not in his late 20s during the series). I thought that I got the balance right between memory altered!Owen and the normal one, so yay.