I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

I seem to have a Type of character that I fall for, inevitably. Even though, logically, if I met any of them in real life, I wouldn't like them, and they wouldn't like me.

It started with Kerr Avon (Blake's 7).
Anti-hero, cynic, brilliant, snarky, witty, pragmatist, who rolls his eyes at heroics. But also faithful, with a dead girlfriend that he's willing to be tortured for in order to avenge her... only to turn out that she'd betrayed him all along. He needs a hug.

Then there was Methos (Highlander).
Brilliant, snarky, witty, pragmatist, survivor, who rolls his eyes at heroics. Oh, and a mass-murderer who played mind-games with his girlfriend. But he grew up. Probably. He's just this guy, y'know.

Severus Snape (Harry Potter) is next in line.
Brilliant, snarky, witty, liar, spy, but also a nasty piece of work, a bully who holds a grudge like it defines his identity. And faithful. With a dead girlfriend whom he betrayed, but switched sides for and is willing to die in order to avenge her. He needs a hug.

And now Loki (Marvel). The most dangerous and unpredictable of them all.
Brilliant, snarky, witty, liar, manipulator, betrayer, survivor, mass-murderer, with a love-hate relationship with his brother that is as tangled as a hundred balls of yarn that have been played with by a thousand cats. Or possibly that's his mind; he isn't quite sane. And yet he has helped save the world.
He needs a hug too.

They are all quite rude (except possibly Methos). In real life, that would annoy me, if they were rude to me.
They all consider idealists to be morons. In real life, that would mean they would consider me a moron too, and I would not like that at all.
They don't play well with others. In real life, that would also annoy me, if I had to work with them. I much prefer cooperation to confrontation.
Every single one of them is a killer. In real life, that would terrify me. Loki especially.

So why on earth do I like them in fiction?

Gacked from jaythenerdkid:
Post, in your journal, a rec list singling out the best of your own fics. Tell people why you are especially proud of those particular fics, and of course provide links to them. Yes, that's right, this step involves self-promotion. How else are people supposed to find your fics? List as many or as few as you feel appropriate to represent your body of writing.

Also include a paragraph about the types of fics you most enjoy reading or are most interested in reading in the immediate future -- favorite tropes, pairings, fandoms, whatever. If you're particularly lazy, link to that Dear Writer post you did for whatever holiday exchange comes to mind.

Reply to other rec posts (like for example the one you are reading now) by reccing a fic of your own that might fit the original poster's tastes, or that you'd just really like them to read, because maybe they don't know they'd like it.
( my best fic )
( my fic likes )
So go ye and rec your stuff!

Title: Provenance Unknown
Author: Kathryn Andersen
Universe: Highlander
Rating: PG
Category: Crossover, Ficathon
Characters: Rebecca Horne, Methos
Size: 2300w
Date: 2009-12-12
Elsewhere: http://community.livejournal.com/hlh_shortcuts/33662.html
Summary: A traveller visits Rebecca's castle, bearing a mystery.

Done for Highlander Holiday Short-Cuts 2009.

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Title: Paths Crossed
Author: Kathryn Andersen
Universe: Highlander/Sentinel
Category: Crossover, Pre-Series
Characters: Naomi Sandburg, Byron
Size: 1050w
Date: 2000-6-30
Elsewhere: The Lyric Wheel, HLFIC, fanfiction.net
Summary: An encounter in the Sixties changes some paths.

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/PathsCrossed

Title: Hide and Seek
Author: Kathryn Andersen
Universe: Blakes7/Highlander
Series: Winning Is The Only Safety 2
Category: Crossover
Characters: Avon, Ritchie Ryan, Methos, Jenna, Servalan, Vila
Size: 12890w, 74K
Date: 1998-3-01
Elsewhere: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5373494/1/Winning_is_the_Only_Safety_2_Hide_and_Seek
Summary: PGP crossover. Sequel to Winning is the Only Safety: First Death.

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/HideAndSeek

Well remix_redux is now revealed, and you could knock me down with a feather when I found out that mistraltoes was the one who had done the remix of my story (Trigger Finger (The 11 O'clock Remix)).

As for me, the story that I wrote for Remix was Making Connections (The Telephony Remix), which was very scarey, because the author I'd been assigned wrote nothing but slash. So I'm proud of how I managed to write a gen story out of all that. But Never Again!

The story is now also up on my site at http://www.localhost/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/MakingConnections

I have been chastised by more than one person for not posting my fic. So here's a catch-up post, with links. Do reassure me by reading them and commenting. Please?

A bunch of Buffy crossover drabbles and double-drabbles for tthdrabbles:

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/BitingOffMoreThanYouCanChew (Buffy/Lois & Clark)
http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/TooTooSolidFlesh (Buffy/Highlander)
http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/Galloping (Buffy/Highlander)
http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/ConflictingParadigms (Buffy/Doctor Who)
http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/Shopping (another one in the "In Truth, Beauty" universe)


And also, I think I forgot to mention last year's multiverse2004 story:

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Stories/KathrynAndersen/SeekingLethe (Doctor Who/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Title: Friendly Drink
Fandom: Highlander/Doctor Who
Challenge: crossovers100
Claim: Doctor Who
Characters: Methos, Duncan, Joe, The Doctor, Rose
Prompt: #60 drink
Rating: family
Words: 450
Series: Methos and the Doctor #1
Big Table: http://www.livejournal.com/users/kerravonsen/156920.html

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Cross-posted to crossovers100 and crossoverfic