Shrinking Violet
3. Which part of [title] was hardest to write?
Maaaaan! The whole thing! No but um? The scene where they enter the motel room. Going from strangers to lovers(?) without a lot of fluff. Because that’s not what it was about for either of them. It was a fix it fuck, and they needed to get down to the point.
6. Which scenes did you cut, and which were added in [title]?
I don’t think I cut anything? Adding Mulder in the parking lot...I didn’t want to? But. It made sense.
8. Which came first, the title or the fic?
The title for sure. I had to write something smutty inspired by Excelsis Dei, which is a decidedly *unsexy* episode. But there’s a line. Where the victim (in the ep) is saying that’s she’s no “shrinking violet”, that she would have remembered the face of an attacker, and not blocked it out like a coward. Given how recent Scully’s own abduction and medical rape had been, that line hit me hard. I imagined it affected her too. And it absolutely came from that line, Scully’s need to regain power, agency, some affirmation from someone who wasn’t Mulder or her mother, etc., her character canonically gravitates toward powerful men. The final dialogue from Miles came absolutely from that line of thought.
