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rionaleonhart) wrote2010-02-28 12:22 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2010-02-28 12:22 pm
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I'm Making You Gaaay.
Guys, I would like to introduce you to two characters I adore. I have never played Left 4 Dead, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zarla (whose work, incidentally, was the reason I first started writing fanfiction a decade ago) has created a couple of OCs for it, and I love them. I love them. I want them to have a huge fandom.
All you really need to know: Left 4 Dead is a zombie apocalypse videogame. The zombification spreads via infection; some are immune. Two types of zombie are the Hunter and the Smoker, both male in the game.zarla has created hypothetical female versions of them.
They are wonderful. They (pre-infection, obviously) have one of those lovely 'we mock each other all the time but deep down we love each other fiercely' friendships, which exist between female characters in fiction far too rarely; it reminds me a bit of the relationship I have with my housemate, actually. I find their well-concealed affection and loyalty very touching. Smoker is reserved and sardonic and a bit old-fashioned and Hunter is energetic and adorable, and there is a constant heartbreaking thread running through their interactions, because you as the reader know what their eventual fates will be.
Here are some ofzarla's entries filled with sketches and comics of them:
one - including their first meeting, how they became infected, Hunter gatecrashing Smoker's dinner.
two - ADORABILITY IN ALL ITS FORMS. Refusal to acknowledge affection! Embarrassing taste in music! A bit of Hunter/Smoker! Also, the beginnings of a comic about the day Hunter is bitten; Smoker's worry and the way it expresses itself in disjointed rambling break my heart.
three - in colour, in different outfits, in an AU in which they survive, playing backseat Tetris, defending each other.
I don't typically seek original characters out in fandom, but of course every fictional character we love is someone's OC, and I've always foundzarla's creations incredibly compelling. The fact that these two are not from a published work and therefore unlikely to develop a massive fandom genuinely makes me quite sad, because I love them no less than I do many characters I adore from videogames or television. Do check them out.
zarla (whose work, incidentally, was the reason I first started writing fanfiction a decade ago) has created a couple of OCs for it, and I love them. I love them. I want them to have a huge fandom.All you really need to know: Left 4 Dead is a zombie apocalypse videogame. The zombification spreads via infection; some are immune. Two types of zombie are the Hunter and the Smoker, both male in the game.
zarla has created hypothetical female versions of them.They are wonderful. They (pre-infection, obviously) have one of those lovely 'we mock each other all the time but deep down we love each other fiercely' friendships, which exist between female characters in fiction far too rarely; it reminds me a bit of the relationship I have with my housemate, actually. I find their well-concealed affection and loyalty very touching. Smoker is reserved and sardonic and a bit old-fashioned and Hunter is energetic and adorable, and there is a constant heartbreaking thread running through their interactions, because you as the reader know what their eventual fates will be.
Here are some of
zarla's entries filled with sketches and comics of them:one - including their first meeting, how they became infected, Hunter gatecrashing Smoker's dinner.
two - ADORABILITY IN ALL ITS FORMS. Refusal to acknowledge affection! Embarrassing taste in music! A bit of Hunter/Smoker! Also, the beginnings of a comic about the day Hunter is bitten; Smoker's worry and the way it expresses itself in disjointed rambling break my heart.
three - in colour, in different outfits, in an AU in which they survive, playing backseat Tetris, defending each other.
I don't typically seek original characters out in fandom, but of course every fictional character we love is someone's OC, and I've always found
zarla's creations incredibly compelling. The fact that these two are not from a published work and therefore unlikely to develop a massive fandom genuinely makes me quite sad, because I love them no less than I do many characters I adore from videogames or television. Do check them out.
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