6, 9, 11 & 13 for Fugazi vs Vanilla / Impatience 💚💜 - xavier-plymptons
aah thank you so much for these darling, i wish i had a new punk!duncan for you by now!
6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?
frankly, this was my first proper venture into an au. i’d never given alternative versions of cody boys the dedication i gave punk!duncan because my vision ever really reached past the versions of cody characters we knew on screen. i’d always bent the truth about the characters a little this way and that way, but i’d never delved head-first into a total rewriting of a character. duncan’s an ambiguous man as it is, we as a fandom have twisted and skewed that character beyond all recognition, but i wanted to make sure this au version of duncan shepherd was as true to his original as possible. he’s got the sass of an outgoing boisterous punk but that weakness around his family connections, his history and even his own feelings. that’s why he’s so hard to write for in my own mind, i’m so stuck in the actual duncan shepherd that creating this alternative personality goes against everything my tiny mind knows about him!
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
actually no! i never come up with alternate versions, i’m a shallow writer that just puts down what i think of and that’s the end of the story. i wish i had more preparation when i go into stories but that’s just me!
11: What do you like best about this fic?
truthfully? duncan’s appearance. from his hair down to his piercings, he’s every inch that typical punk you bump into outside shows. he’s got a cigarette hanging in the corner of his mouth at any given moment… except when he’s going down on his girl, of course.
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
the strange thing is i definitely wasn’t listening to fugazi for this one, i didn’t want these characters to be clouded by the show they were going to see because frankly, they were much more interested in each other. i work in the music industry and we’ve all been to shows where the social interaction outweighs the music. that’s not to say that punk!duncan doesn’t love fugazi, his local band of choice on that fateful night, but he’s just got bigger priorities in the form of this chick he met outside. i was actually listening to def leppard’s pour some sugar on me, as odd as it may sound, because that’s my regular go-to soundtrack for writing smut — you can’t get much more filthy than def lep. so if you’re reading this, plug in some joe elliott and picture duncan battling with reader’s bondage belt. punks don’t exactly make stripping in the back of a camaro easy on themselves, do they? 😜
punk!duncan so far: fugazi vs vanilla // impatience
