When I was starting working with the idea of these double slash fics (S/J and M/L) it dawned on me that both John and Lestrade are naturally team players, so if they're not competing over Sherlock, their instinct would be not only to be friendly, but to co-operate and help one another out. Linking the David to David and Jonathan only came very late - it just seemed a nice ordinary name for someone to have.
All this started, of course, with your fic 'Quiet Storm', which inspired Bloom84's 'Some Things He Doesn't Need to Know' and then 'The Instigator'. And some of the Eighties stuff from 'Quiet Storm' is now bleeding into the back-story of this Mystrade fic, and a possible follow-up. In particular, I'm haunted by the possibility that if Lestrade was born in 1963 (as Rupert Graves is) and has been out for most of his adult life, that he'd have been in his early 20s at the height of the UK AIDS epidemic, and probably seen a lot of his friends die in that. And that maybe that is part of the reason for his resilience - that nothing subsequently can ever be as bad. (I'd be interested to know if that was a part of his back-story that you had imagined as well).
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Date: 2011-03-03 08:53 pm (UTC)All this started, of course, with your fic 'Quiet Storm', which inspired Bloom84's 'Some Things He Doesn't Need to Know' and then 'The Instigator'. And some of the Eighties stuff from 'Quiet Storm' is now bleeding into the back-story of this Mystrade fic, and a possible follow-up. In particular, I'm haunted by the possibility that if Lestrade was born in 1963 (as Rupert Graves is) and has been out for most of his adult life, that he'd have been in his early 20s at the height of the UK AIDS epidemic, and probably seen a lot of his friends die in that. And that maybe that is part of the reason for his resilience - that nothing subsequently can ever be as bad. (I'd be interested to know if that was a part of his back-story that you had imagined as well).