User blog:AustinDR/Update on Remembering Lincoln

On FanFiction.net, so far I am receiving 21 faves for my story "Remembering Lincoln." Thus far, I have 28 reviews on my fanfiction most of which are positive from scores ranging from 10/10 to 8.5/10. The story was written in response to UnderratedHero's Requiem for a Loud which concerns Lincoln having to accept his mortality when he is diagnosed with brain tumors. I even received a compliment from UnderratedHero himself for my take on his story. Granted, he did say that it was somewhat rushed, but he applauded me for making the fanfic as emotional as I possibly could.

I don't understand why I'm receiving a lot of attention for my interpretation, though. I mean, I guess I could see why several people loved it, especially since Requiem is still in progress, but it's a story that I'm personally not proud of. Admittedly, I did not make this fanfic to tailgate off of the success of Requiem; the fanfic first came to my mind when I was reading the TV Tropes page for the fanfic, and I saw that in Chapter 12 of Requiem, Lincoln realizes that Lily --the baby of the family -- would eventually forget about him as she matures. First, I thought "Darn it, UnderratedHero, stop playing with my heart strings!" the second thought I had was "what would happen if Lily were to find out that she had a brother years after the story ends." With that, I made the first chapter of "Remembering Lincoln" revolving around four-year-old Lincoln's room. Ever since Lincoln's death, the Loud family hardly ever recovered from their loss to the point that his room was boarded up, and was made off limits. As you would guess, Lily gets into the room and finds a family picture containing Lincoln. So, Lincoln's surviving sisters needed to face the reality of their situation, and they bond over their shared memories of Lincoln.

Then came "Lincoln's Farewell" which I did delete because I felt embarrassed by it, but it's back now thanks to UnderratedHero's insistence. "Lincoln's Farewell" is set four years earlier where Lincoln slowly succumbs to the wretched brain tumors. In it, Lincoln is permitted to leave the hospital to attend his sister, Lynn's, final ballgame. As the game was nearing its end, Lincoln is overcome by a major heart attack; the tumor was beginning to spread to his heart. Lincoln falls over in his seat and gets knocked out when his head hardly hits the railing. Once they return to the hospital, they are made to realize that they needed to say their goodbyes before Lincoln passes. All of the sisters get a word with Lincoln except for Lynn. She no longer felt guilty about accidentally hitting Lincoln in the head, but she can't bring herself to even look at his frail body. This brings her into conflict with Lori, and the two proceed to have a slight fight. The stress of seeing them fight causes another heart attack to rear its ugly head as he groans for them to cease bodily harm. Before Lincoln closes his eyes for the final time, he sees a vision of his friend Adrien -- a boy introduced earlier in the fanfic who died after his battle with leukemia -- congratulating him for making his final weeks meaningful for his sisters. Lincoln would end up dying a week shy of the 2 to 3 weeks that the doctor suggested.

Overall, I'm just pretty surprised that several people actually enjoyed my story. I thought it was bad, but apparently they see something in my story that I can't. I mean, it was actually an honor to have UnderratedHero himself not only approve of my rendition of his story, but to recommend it to his friends. I may retool it a bit here and there, but I don't know exactly when.