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Mar. 11th, 2021 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babydracoI wanted that story to end happily, but I realized there's really no way it can if I'm being honest and in character.
It doesn't mean they'd divorce. But she can't save him. A cisswapped version of a fictionalized take on a man can't do something a real woman couldn't do. And it's not a good idea to send a message that the right woman can fix a man. The canon historical versions, if they'd been a real m/m couple, likely wouldn't have survived their issues either. This isn't a case of "if my ship could have just gotten together and stayed that way, everything would've been okay".
I wrote the sad ending into the girl!Abbie fic. But I didn't want to go through that again. So this is me acknowledging that it probably won't end well, but that I didn't want to write a downer ending again but anything else would be dishonest so I left things open ended.
It doesn't mean they'd divorce. But she can't save him. A cisswapped version of a fictionalized take on a man can't do something a real woman couldn't do. And it's not a good idea to send a message that the right woman can fix a man. The canon historical versions, if they'd been a real m/m couple, likely wouldn't have survived their issues either. This isn't a case of "if my ship could have just gotten together and stayed that way, everything would've been okay".
I wrote the sad ending into the girl!Abbie fic. But I didn't want to go through that again. So this is me acknowledging that it probably won't end well, but that I didn't want to write a downer ending again but anything else would be dishonest so I left things open ended.
