I don't know; maybe I'm just projecting myself onto her, or something. :/
No, littlegreen42, I totally agree with you. I think threeguesses really captures the way Scully would adapt to this particular reality. I've never taken canon all that seriously on this matter, because IMO Gillian Anderson could not have been distant or cold or awkward with a child to save her life.
The way threeguesses writes it is much more in agreeance with how I see her character. She finds parenting difficult, and has a hard time connecting with a child on a child's level. There's a kind of distance in Scully that I don't think she could have overcome - even for a child - at that point in her life. But she tries.
I feel like with this AU, threeguesses has wrote what amounts to the opposite of fix-it fic. Something was wrong with canon and threeguesses pointed it out by tearing that plotline wide open. It's always been something that bothers me about the Emily storyline, that Scully automatically wants nothing more than to adopt this little girl. I can understand that she would have very conflicting feelings during that time, but the idea that she would give up her life as she knew it (including the work she's been willing to risk her life for on countless occasions) in order to become a parent, just like that, seems incredibly unfair to her character. The change it would have necessitated would have been like bulldozing down her life in order to live another. Which is what this fic shows. Scully makes a choice, and sticks with it, and adapts as best she can, until eleven years later she's telling her daughter that Mulder is someone she used to work with, and really, that's the truth of it.
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Date: 2012-02-29 04:12 am (UTC)No,
The way threeguesses writes it is much more in agreeance with how I see her character. She finds parenting difficult, and has a hard time connecting with a child on a child's level. There's a kind of distance in Scully that I don't think she could have overcome - even for a child - at that point in her life. But she tries.
I feel like with this AU, threeguesses has wrote what amounts to the opposite of fix-it fic. Something was wrong with canon and threeguesses pointed it out by tearing that plotline wide open. It's always been something that bothers me about the Emily storyline, that Scully automatically wants nothing more than to adopt this little girl. I can understand that she would have very conflicting feelings during that time, but the idea that she would give up her life as she knew it (including the work she's been willing to risk her life for on countless occasions) in order to become a parent, just like that, seems incredibly unfair to her character. The change it would have necessitated would have been like bulldozing down her life in order to live another. Which is what this fic shows. Scully makes a choice, and sticks with it, and adapts as best she can, until eleven years later she's telling her daughter that Mulder is someone she used to work with, and really, that's the truth of it.