Campfire Chat #1

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

Howdy Campers!

Do you know what time it is?! Why it's time to break out the graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate bars, and raise our conversation to an all-time sugar high.

Today's topic: The Saddest Man in New Jersey

That's what RSL called Wilson during the series. Now that it's over let's revisit the concept. What is it about Wilson that makes him sick!fic fodder? Is it built into the character or does RSL bring that "certain something"? What makes us pick up on it? With the finale we know even tptb saw and wanted to exploit it. Is it because Wilson is House’s sole support system, and the key to House’s vulnerability, or is it intrinsic to Wilson?

Bonus questions:

• When did you first discover Wilson was a prime candidate for suffering?
• Was it unfair what tptb did to Wilson?

As in years past, please feel free to air your opinions and discuss amongst yourselves.

And don't forget to pass the bag of marshmallows to your neighbor.

Comments

[sheppa.livejournal.com]

My first sick!Wilson fic was "Almost Unnameable Lust" nuclearfootball (http://nuclearfootball.livejournal.com/439401.html#cutid). I cried all day and then I have understood that I like sick!Wilson. It was in 2009. I began to look for similar stories and found this comm.

[srsly-yes.livejournal.com]

Bless our writers for showing us fans why Wilson needs to be loved. ♥

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

Oh, good lord, that was one of my early ones, too. And I grieved over that fic for days, as if someone in my life had really died: tears, sleeplessness, feeling wretched and ill, the whole thing. I avoided death!fics for over a year after reading that one, because I didn't want to go through something like that again, it was too awful. To this day I haven't had the courage to re-read it.

[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

One of the earliest sick Wilson ones I read was All Good Things (http://rubberbutton.livejournal.com/15568.html) - and I cried absolute buckets at the end of that story, I've never been able to re-read it, though it would be interesting now in the light of Wilson's cancer.