Category: Batman Begins/Dark Knight
Rating: T
Language: English
Characters: Bruce Wayne/Batman and OC (Valencia Carter)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Summary: Once upon a time, Valencia Carter was a rare Gotham success story, but then she disappeared. When she returns six years later, the city hangs in the balance between the Dark Knight's vigilantism and the Clown Prince of Chaos's reign of terror.
With just a little less than a year left before "The Dark Knight Rises" hits theaters, I decided to start publishing my Batman-related fanfiction that I had been working on for quite some time. According to the file create date of my first drabbles, my OC Valencia has been dancing around in my head since May 2010. It started out as an exercise in creating a character of substance worthy enough to play opposite the too-damn-good-to-be-true Bruce Wayne without being an all-out Mary Sue. (She does come dangerously close to it, I will admit.)
I don't believe I was really serious about Gotham's Cinderella until about a few months ago, about June 2011, when I realized the short scenes that had wandered into my head and onto my computer could easily be connected to one another. In the following couple of months, I worked out a few major plot points that would enable me to include all the elements of Valencia's story I want to include.
The result was the most well-planned story I've ever put out, with all chapters outlined and about 15,000 words' worth of snippets that will hopefully start to flow together into chapters. Just like with Shadows of Ourselves, the chapter titles will have an overall theme/uniformity. New to Gotham's Cinderella, however, is the use of a song (one per chapter) that will end up being the already compiled Gotham's Cinderella playlist, which I've been listening to nonstop for about two days now.
Also unique to Gotham's Cinderella was my decision to write it all in the present tense. My drabbles had started out in past tense, and I had to switch some of my first and favorite original scenes to present. I'm not quite sure where the idea came from. I believe I wrote one very in-the-moment scene in present tense, realized what I had done and decided it would be interesting to try to write completely that way. It certainly has been a challenge, especially when you realize nearly everything else you read and write is written in past tense. It's sometimes limiting, but it's also allowed me to find new ways of describing things, be more aware of physical movement and hopefully convey a sense of this motion and immediacy when needed.
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