tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[bitten_notshy]

Second summer session of 2007, I got assigned Abigail Irene Garrett as Tyler's teaching buddy. I had heard precisely nothing about the book or the author, but the things Danii mentioned about it seemed interesting, so I put it on my list of books to maybe possibly someday read. (Note: This list is about 30 single-spaced pages long.) And it probably would have ended there, except that, about a week later, I was at the library and New Amsterdam was on one of the new books displays.

"Huh," I said, picked it up, checked it out ... and read it to cover to cover that night.

I think the first thing that made me love the book was, and I'll own this, I have A Thing about vampire stories. I like young angry ones and old sad ones and all the kinds in between. And Sebastien is about the oldest and saddest vampire of them all. And then there's Jack, who's so young and wounded and covering for it so well, and -- I don't know how to explain it beyond saying it spoke to me. And of course there's Abigail Irene herself, who is just a unique kind of character -- a Victorian woman who is so much her own master.

The plot isn't really the book's strength, and the ending can only be called cruel, but when New Amsterdam just puts characters in a room and makes them talk they say and do extraordinary things. I loved that.

And then he had to wait a year because I cannot play Jack and Romeo on the same day without my wee brain getting confuzzled. I think it was worth it, I just wish I'd said "screw canon" and made Jack a year younger. *is keeping him forever for reals*