The Undead, kinda (xposted to WickedWhispers)

(And while all the angst about writing, the business of writing, and cheese goes on in the back of my mind, don’t think I have forgotten the stories. Because them I still love. A lot. Even if I wind up podcasting them for free or some other subversive thing…)

This week’s topic is the undead. You know, weres, vamps, zombies.

I don’t write about the undead, as such.

But here I will muse about a possible undead person I want to write about. I have a character, Jason Bell. In his last adventure, he met with some unfortunate circumstances. But seeing as how Jason is entirely fictional, even within his fictional stories, I think I can get around the whole death thing. The question is how to do it?

Elaborate resurrection ceremony? Some intervention by Suki the wise woman?

My favorite idea so far, actually, is fan fiction (sadly not my idea, but still a good one)! Jason exists because authors write about him existing. His universe is because someone made it so. Questions remain unanswered–who wrote his death scene? Is he actually dead if no one wrote it? Was Katya actually writing the entire exchange to rescue Jen? Nothing was made clear at the end of Bell Curve, apart from the very real fact that Jen would probably not encounter Jason Bell in that particular guise again.

Thus Jason is, for now, dead. But you know how those fan fic writers can be. They decide something in the canon is not to their liking, they just change it. And add a lot of boy on boy action, but we’ll leave that out for now. Why not have a couple of overhorny young but of age folks write a story about their favorite dead bounty hunter, magically returned to life thanks to some quirk they wrote? And why not have him show up in their world?

I don’t just break the fourth wall. I break ALL the walls.

Jason Bell, not your usual kind of zombie. But he’ll do.