As Canada鈥檚 figure skating sweethearts are celebrated across the globe, the number of fantasy stories about them continues to rise. The longtime chemistry between Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir has been a great inspiration for creative writers to take the duo鈥檚 story into fantasyland.
Ever since the duo claimed gold medals in Pyeongchang, there has been an increase in stories on fan fiction platforms like Wattpad and Archive of Our Own. Eden Lackner, an English literature instructor at the University of Calgary, told 麻豆影视 Channel numbers on Archive of Our Own alone have jumped from 160 stories yesterday to 197 this morning.
So what is fan fiction? Lackner, who specializes in the medium, explained what this type of storytelling is all about.
鈥淚t鈥檚 when fans find themselves interested in a particular media property鈥nd they are basically inspired to write stories about them,鈥� Lackner said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a creative act and one that honestly if there is media about it, there鈥檚 stories somewhere about it.鈥�
With the widespread media attention surrounding the decorated athletes, there has been a recent increase in stories across a multitude of genres. One story on Archive of Our Own called 鈥淪paces and Hollow Places,鈥� is the most popular in the archive. Surpassing 16,000 hits, the story鈥檚 description teases, 鈥淲hen a partnership of eighteen years is put to the test, Tessa and Scott must rediscover who they are.鈥�
Another title, 鈥淣ow I am become Death (the destroyer of our world),鈥� injects the couple into a 鈥楬unger Games鈥� style world.
鈥淭here are ones that are going to be traditional romances, there鈥檚 going to be ones that are perhaps more interested in angst. They鈥檒l be ones that even have fantasy or science-fiction bents to them. Fan fiction itself is something that really stretches across genres,鈥� she said.
Lackner believes the reason behind Virtue and Moir being the centre of all the recent fiction is due to their already real-life compelling story. Add the sport of ice dance, the length of their career, and their prowess to the mix, and writers are compelled to play with the 鈥渨hat-ifs鈥� of the pair鈥檚 relationship.
鈥淎ll that sort of works together and feeds that creative notion and really gives fans of the sport, of Scott and Tessa in general, the impetus to really be creative in their own right.鈥�
Although the couple denies a romantic relationship,
