Author's Note: POV on Can Divit
I started to write FanFic in December 2018. I have not written anything before, even when motivated to write, I certainly wasn't ready for it!
Erkenci Kuş is a random TV show from Turkey. For supposedly a lighthearted summer rom-com, it surely packs a punch with the main leads & supporting cast, music & literature references, eccentric characters & great plot lines! Oh well... Turkey is where east meets west, there's that appeal and something for everyone!
Can Divit and Sanem Soysal played by Can Yaman and Demet Özdemir are the protagonists, respectively, on the show!
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It took me a minute (on Jupiter) but there's a strong pattern of why I like whom I like!
Here are my (5 + 1) fictional heroes/anti-heroes ::
Edward Fairfax Rochester from Jane Eyre
Captain Frederick Wentworth from Persuasion
Dr. Ellie Arroway from Contact
Othello
Starbuck aka Kara Thrace from Battlestar Galactica (21st Century)
Can Divit from Erkenci Kus.
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I've found these characters very captivating, complex and sort-of a cluster-fuck... in each their own unique way!
They have flairs of genius: Ellie (actual genius), Wentworth, Starbuck & Othello (war strategy) and Rochester (how to brood?!).
They're tortured in some way, self-loathing loners, who are unable to love themselves: where do I even begin?!
They're brute savages in private that look sophisticated in social settings... in varying forms : Rochester takes the cake, Starbuck and Othello a close second and then Wentworth & Ellie.
They're looking for love... in all the wrong places. Even when they meet their love and soulmate... they can't accept it and are in a full-blown existential crisis! Touché!
Most importantly, they're wanderers & nomads: Rochester (who knows?!), Wentworth (oceans), Othello (wars) and Ellie & Starbuck (space exploration).
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Why am I writing from Can Divit's POV?
Let's get the obvious out of the way: he's tall, dark, hot and handsome... that certainly helps!
He grew up an only child, even though he had a brother, in a broken family... his mom abandoned him!
He's brilliant, accomplished, extremely creative, rich and has garnered respect among his peers!
He's self-loathing to the point of destruction, never letting anyone get close to him, he has built such a tough-nut exterior...now he himself has to learn how to crack it!
He's a sophisticated yet brute savage... and he feels one with the wilderness!
He has intimacy issues, hopping on relationships and skating on love... until love finds him!
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About me : Who am I?
Dear Friends, Country Men & Women, lend me your eyes!
I started to write FanFic in December 2018. I have not written anything before, even when motivated to write, I certainly wasn't ready for it!
I'm deeply romantic and hence exploring Romance Fiction. As someone with borderline eidetic memory, I'm creating stories from visuals!
I'm an once & former orphan with a difficult childhood and drawing inspiration from personal struggles and life experiences. Themes include gender roles reversals, single parenting, abandonment issues and how it affects ones choices as an adult. I'm an ardent supporter of women (and men) and so that'll always be an underlying theme to my stories.
Now, I'm happily married and that helps with the romance, love and marriage themes I'm exploring writing about relationships.
Combining my romanticism with travel, I've traveled to all 7 continents, ~40 countries and ~200 cities and counting, so exploring travel themes.
I also have a challenging STEM career, read lone warrior woman in technology, and need a creative pursuit!
So, Voilà! Yes, hey you... I heard that eye-roll!
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Favorite Quotes
"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." ― Carl Sagan
"根回し" ― NeMawashi in Japanese
"Fight ONLY the battles that will help WIN the war!" ― Chinese Proverb
"If you can't fight, Negotiate!" ― Chanakya
"The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat." ― Lily Tomlin
"It is what it is" ― Erich Fried
"This above all: to thine own self be true" ― William Shakespeare
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes backs it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was." ― Richard Bach
"To Travel is to Live" - Hans Christian Andersen
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XoXo, DR