User blog comment:Weavillain/How Would You Approach a "No Such Luck" Fic?/@comment-4618045-20171005104326

By that definition, I have not written an NSL fic. To put it mockingly, I have chickened out of including the very worst elements of the episode in order to preserve a sense of integrity among the characters within a collective AU I have crafted.

If I were to make a straight-up story that ignores my AU and accepts “reality”, then the route that interests me the most is from the POV of the parents. On one hand you could lump that in the same category as Lyn as some sort of guilt would be involved, but you can more or less apply that to any Loud outside Lincoln (and possibly Lily). If I were to write something about the parents, then it would be how these grown adults came to follow the whims of their other children. The attitude I would attempt to achieve is denial. They don’t want to think of themselves as bad parents and wanna convince themselves that keeping Lincoln outside is a noble act. They don’t wanna admit they’re wrong or that they employ any sort of favoritism. But overtime, they slowly start to succumb the eyebrow she that get raised when people see their only son wearing a squirrel suit. Maybe they start getting phone calls about it from the neighbors, but they find a reason to justify themselves. Maybe some of the kids start to realize how ridiculous they’ve been acting and bring their concerns to the parents, only to be “corrected”.

Its all in the name of maintaining credibility. The parents don’t want to embarrass themselves by admitting they’re wrong about all this, but over time they’re increasingly pressured to do so (and to ask why they’re pursuing this on this particular issue). Maybe deep down, they do have an implicit bias against Lincoln that they’ve been too embarrassed (or ashamed) to admit.