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what the hell kind of name is benton
Okay, BURNING QUESTION TIME, because I'm trying to write Fraser POV things and I keep tripping over and second-guessing the damn pronouns. When in doubt, consult the internet!
Me personally, 'Fraser' is invisible to me when I read it but I kind of feel weird having the guy refer to himself by his last name inside his own head when I'm writing him. My default is 'Benton' because I assume that's the name he uses in his head, and at this point when I read it, it also comes up invisible. I actually hate 'Ben' except in exceptional circumstances ie when the narrative starts when he's a child, because plenty of old friends call him Ben without it making me twitch. ('Benny' is not even an option, although if you're writing Vecchio-POV I find it mad charming.) The problem is that this makes sense to me but I imagine that 'Benton' is not invisible to other people and possibly even annoying, and having some raw numbers might be nice.
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When reading a Fraser POV story, I like/don't mind him referring to himself as
When reading a Fraser POV story, I will allow, under certain circumstances and depending on the skill of the writer, him referring to himself as
When reading a Fraser POV story, I really don't like him referring to himself as
Me personally, 'Fraser' is invisible to me when I read it but I kind of feel weird having the guy refer to himself by his last name inside his own head when I'm writing him. My default is 'Benton' because I assume that's the name he uses in his head, and at this point when I read it, it also comes up invisible. I actually hate 'Ben' except in exceptional circumstances ie when the narrative starts when he's a child, because plenty of old friends call him Ben without it making me twitch. ('Benny' is not even an option, although if you're writing Vecchio-POV I find it mad charming.) The problem is that this makes sense to me but I imagine that 'Benton' is not invisible to other people and possibly even annoying, and having some raw numbers might be nice.
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Mm, I do not know! I am happy to break fannish trends but I don't want people to run away.
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Hmm... maybe? The fact that his Canadian friends (including Victoria, who he met as an adult) call him "Ben" suggests to me that he's more formal in Chicago (because he's a guest there, representative of the Queen, etc, = China's usual theory ;-). I don't know -- when Frannie calls him "Benton", it always strikes me as a slight faux pas on her part, emphasising distance between them when she's aiming for intimacy, and when Kowalski calls him "Benton" I think he's partly teasing. :-)
(In slightly related news, I'm pondering a Huey-POV fic, and I'm not 100% sure if he's going to be Huey or Jack. I may have to give up and go with first person POV.)
I am happy to break fannish trends but I don't want people to run away.
Well, so far I'm a statistical outlier, so that's not too much of a problem. (If you wanted a wider sample, you could always link to your poll from
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(Huey POV fic: definitely go with Jack. Enough people call him that.)
And oooh, yes, I should do. I'm running out the door right now, but I may when I come back.
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I'm sure the "what is 3rd person POV, anyway?" conversation's been had a billion times before. *makes note to self to poke around metafandom later on* :-)