Quick Poll

[piecesofalice]

Flisty, can I bend your ear for a second?

When writing fic featuring partners of the policing variety, aside from dialogue, do you feel is it best to call them by their last names (as per canon) through the prose, or by first name?

EXAMPLE!

Charlie was eating a banana. Dani turned to him and groaned, "Crews, can you not?"

OR!

Crews was eating a banana. Reese turned to him and groaned, "Crews, can you not?"


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Discuss. I'd actually like to hear other's opnions on this - writers and readers - because I feel it has a great deal with throwing me out of a story sometimes.

Comments

[suspiriorum.livejournal.com]

I suppose it really depends. What level of intimacy is going on here? If they become closer than partners/work related, then using first names makes sense. You just stick with what works and is IC for them.

This reminds me of the IB fandom and how the Basterds and all military personnel were, by a good part of the fandom, not referred to by their first names, even in intimate fic situations.

Idk, I hated it. It's not Zoller/Shosanna, dammit! Fredrick! It's Fredrick! Unless their portmanteau name is Zoshsanna. Because that's pretty sexy, ngl.

Dieter/Bridget sounds so much nicer than Hellstrom/Bridget. I noticed she got called von Hammersmark a lot, too.

/weird tangent

[piecesofalice.livejournal.com]

I think Sho and Fred are different to the Basterds, though - I'd be reluctant to refer to them as anything but their last names because of the situation, whereas Sho and Fred met as people (to an extent), not colleagues. If that makes sense.

IB fandom is one of the ones that does that - gets overly familiar, and it throws me out.

[suspiriorum.livejournal.com]

It does. I notice that some folk will refer to Fredrick as Zoller to undermine/dehumanize him in some way. Or so it feels that way to me, if that makes any sense.

IB fandom does a lot that's dumb and should be nuked from orbit.


Also




ILU.

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In summary,



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