User blog:AustinDR/Inspiration for Shattered Innocence

So...."Shattered Innocence." For starters, the idea for the story came from my initial reading of Syngesphobia....or something like that. Basically, it's an alternate take on "Brawl in the Family" wherein Lincoln develops a crippling fear of his sisters after he gets beaten to a bloody pulp by them. Now, it's dark, don't get me wrong, but I loved it. Now, I found the fanfic kind of cathartic as something bad happens to the girls because of their behavior. I understand that they felt bad for what they had done to Lincoln, but saying sorry wasn't going to cut ir. I don't hate them, don't get me wrong. However, I found myself unable to feel sorry for them because Lincoln told them to stop, but they still decided to be the ever living crap out of him. They could've killed them. As far as I was concerned, they deserved everything that they got.

But onto "Shattered Innocence." The idea came from the negative reception NSL acquired. I know that some had already made rewrites of the episode to make it to where Lincoln either gets hurt or shot so that the family is made to suffer for how they treated Linc. In one fanfic, the parents even get arrested. To anyway who complained about Social Services not taking immediate action, there you go. No, I did not want to do the same thing, so the next outcome I thought of was that Lincoln would get abducted and murdered during the time in which he was thrown out of his house. I felt that this would be even worse for the family than to have Lincoln get shot or whatnot. It was meant to be a harsher punishment for their mistreatment of Lincoln. Keep in mind, I don't hate the episode, but I felt the need to make this.

As for how dark it'll get....I'm hoping to keep it slightly family friendly, but I feel that I'm dancing on thin ice. I'm not testing the limits to how much darkness I can get away with, but I am wary of continuing it. It is not a happy story whatsoever, nor was it ever meant to be. At most, I also uploaded the first chapter to FanFiction.net, and I even got about 33 faves for it in less than two days. And I thought the story was bad.