The First Six Awards
Everyone had gathered in their seats again, eagerly waiting for the announcement of the first awards of the night.
After a conversation held just off stage, whitem and Slipgate looked at the audience and approached the podium at the center of the stage again.
Slipgate began, "Hello all. Thanks for bearing with the slight delay as we got things going."
People looked at their watches and gave Slipgate 'the eye' while whitem grinned nervously.
After a breath, Slipgate continued. "whitem and I are going to alternate on who presents each award, and I'll be starting, with our first award of the night: Best KP Style Name! Quite simply, if you've come up with someone new who wasn't in the show, and you name them well in the KP tradition, this award might become yours! There was only one nominee this year, Dr. I. Nomore from Broken Heart, Broken Mind by levi2000a1. So the winner for Best KP Style Name this year is..."
whitem handed Slipgate an envelope, which he opened and looked at. "We're being official here," whitem said, and the audience laughed.
"levi2000a1, with Dr. I. Nomore from Broken Heart, Broken Mind! Now, we're going to let him come up here to accept this award."
levi2000a1 rose from his seat in the audience and approached the stage, smiling. As he reached whitem and Slipgate, whitem handed him a statuette and gestured him to the microphone.
"Well, I'd like to think that it was a hard battle with close voting all the way, but in truth, it was an uncontested win. Mine was the only one nominated and actually I was just kidding around at the time, like with Dr. Mindwell, a certified Psychiatrist.
Anyhoo, I started to decline the nomination simply because it was going to be uncontested and I didn't want to win by default. But then I realized that it was an honor to just be nominated for an award. Winning wasn't really that important to me. Mind you, it is really nice to win, but just being nominated is a victory in itself with all the stories that are out there.
I also realize that I will not be eligible for the same category next year, so Kim's maternal grandmother, Kim Credible, whom she was named after will have to wait for another story next year. The same for Kim and Ron's daughter, , and her Nana, . Agent Rex Havoc will return but I remember reading his name in an old Warren Comic book so he won't count.
To all the readers that have read my stories, to the Fannie Committee for working so hard to put the Fannies together this year, and to the original creators, Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley for creating the characters that we all love, Thank you."
~~KPF8~~
As levi2000a1 left the stage, whitem smiled. "My turn now, I believe. Our next award is for Best Original Character. Regardless of what you named them, if you come up with someone that wasn't in the Kim Possible TV series, and people like them, this award could be yours! The nominees this year are:"
- Markus, from The Way of the Gun - The Red, The Green, And The Blues, by MezzicStorm
- Evangeline, from Minor Sitch?, by Martinez.D
- James the guard, from Resident Evil: The Possible Files, by DragonLord19D & MezzicStorm
- Victor the firefighter, from The Stroke of a Key, by Reader101w
- Aunt Attie, from Ronicus et Leo, by Mr. Wizard
"And the winner for Best Original Character this year is..."
Slipgate handed whitem an envelope this time, which he opened, accidentally dropped, and quickly picked up while smiling to the giggling audience. He then pulled out the card and read the winner.
"Mr. Wizard, for the character Aunt Attie! You know the drill by now. Get on up here!"
Mr. Wizard rose and headed for the stage. When he reached whitem and Slipgate, Slipgate handed him a statuette and gestured again to the microphone.
"As great as it is to receive praise for your depiction of beloved characters, it just floors me to receive this honor. I thank you, and Aunt Attie thanks you."
~~KPF8~~
Mr. Wizard then left the stage. Slipgate took a breath, looked at the audience, and smiled. "So much for creating new characters that weren't in the series. Our next award is to celebrate those who took someone who was not a main character in the series and let them shine. Our Best Minor Character award goes to the person who was voted to do the most awesome stuff with a minor character from the show – people like Steve Barkin, Yori, Bonnie, or so on. Our nominees? Why, they are:"
- Electronique, from Lacrymosa, by Iapsa
- Bonnie Rockwaller, from The Red Hood, by DragoLord19D
- Steve Barkin, from The Hunter: Book One, by Sentinel103
- Bonnie Rockwaller, from The Stroke of a Key, by Reader101w
"And who is our victor tonight? The winner for Best Minor Character goes to..."
whitem handed Slipgate an envelope, which now slipped through HIS fingers and dropped to the stage. Smiling nervously, Slipgate bent down, grabbed the envelope, opened it, and looked inside.
"Sentinel103, for Steve Barkin! Come on down!"
whitem whispered in Slipgate's ear: "You know you're not Bob Barker or Drew Carey, right?" Unfortunately, the mic picked it up and everybody laughed.
"No, no I'm not!" Slipgate said to the audience, "But I certainly wouldn't MIND being that famous..."
A man rose. Next to him sat CajunBear73, two Japanese women, and older-looking versions of Justine Flanner and Big Mike. Shaking his head, Sentinel103 approached the stage and stood next to Slipgate and whitem.
whitem handed him a statuette and Slipgate surrendered the microphone to them.
The large fat and almost done balding man wearing his blue and green kilt and black formal jacket raised his Fannie Award above his head. "I want to thank everyone for helping me with this. It wasn't my goal to portray Steve Barkin the way I currently am in 'The Hunter', but we worked out a deal. I made him the centerpiece of 'Hero's Corner' and he let me do this with him in return. SO I can say that Stevie boy does deserve some props… and you will see 'H C' in due time."
"I also want to thank CajunBear over at our table sitting with the Sake Sisters and Justine and Mike at our table, without all his work over the years I might still be panhandling in city parks trying to get by. Also I want to thank Slippy and whitem for all their work in putting this together. And while I am thanking people I want to thank everyone who voted for me. I AM humbled by this reward.
Lastly I think we need to remember those writers who are not with us now. I greatly miss CPneb, Commander Argus and Screaming Phoenix. Unfortunately we won't see their like again except on another plane and I hope that someday I will be able to compare notes with Ben and Rob, who knows maybe even Nelson. Thanks to everyone and keep writing, you guys keep Kim Possible Fan Fiction going. This is a great fandom."
~~KPF8~~
Sentinel103 walked off. Slipgate edged over so whitem could reach the microphone. whitem looked at the audience.
"Before we go on…" whitem began.
Slipgate continued, "We'd like to let you know that we do have something planned for later in this awards ceremony to honor our dearly departed that Sentinel103 just mentioned."
"We won't forget these people in this ceremony. We just wanted you to know that, since he brought them up." whitem then finished, their dialogue eerily reminiscent of Tweeb Speak.
"With that said," Slipgate added, then turned to whitem.
"You think you're all that Kim Possible, but you're not!" whitem shouted, causing a small amount of feedback on the speakers.
Almost everyone in the audience cringed at the noise, and then gave whitem an annoyed look, making him mouth 'Sorry.'
After a moment, he continued: "Drakken said that many times during the series. He ended up being one of the favorite villains of both the series runners and series watchers. Fanfiction authors have had the opportunity to play with lots of villains – sometimes villains they created themselves, and sometimes villains from the show. Our next category is Best Villain. The nominees are:"
- Jeremiah "The Preacher" Jackson, from The Way of the Gun - The Red, The Green, And The Blues, by MezzicStorm
- The Hybrid Computer System, from Broken Heart, Broken Mind, by levi2000a1
- Monkey Fist, from I Lost a World The Other Day, by temporaryinsanity91
- Mr. Baron, from A Gathering of Heroes, by Oreochema
- Yono, from the Monkey's Tail trilogy, by levi2000a1
- Shego, from Fed Up to the Core, by shivnmcg666
- Dr. James Trask, from Resident Evil: The Possible Files series, by DragonLord19D & MezzicStorm
- Shegovia of Liguria, from the Ronicus series, by Mr. Wizard
- The Empusa of Sophinisba, from Ronicus et Leo, by Mr. Wizard
- Moriarty, from Possible Manipulation, by whitem
"And the Fannie for Best Villain goes to..."
Slipgate handed whitem an envelope, which he opened and looked at the contents of.
"Uhh… Me?" whitem asked, with his voice suddenly less booming.
Slipgate glanced at the envelope, looked up at whitem, and nodded with a smile.
"Ah, well, I, whitem, appear to be the winner in this category, for the character Moriarty."
whitem stood a bit taller, and then began.
"Wow… I can't believe that Moriarty has won again. I wish to thank first and foremost ALL of those who have read this series of stories. When I first came up with the concept of Moriarty, I wanted to use a combination of different villains I had seen and read. First off, I did put a little bit of Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes, but I also put a bit of Ra's al Ghul (hope I spelled that right) from Batman, and Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars just before he turned completely to the Dark Side.
As a result, he came out to be the most sinister bad guy that my mind has ever come up with. What I didn't expect, were some of the reviews for the stories he was involved in. Almost everyone hates this guy with a passion, and the majority of reviewers want him to die. I've never had responses like that for any of the OC's I've created.
To sum everything up, I want to Thank everyone again for nominating Moriarty as Best Villain, and I would like to Thank all of those who voted for him in the final round. If y'all are wondering if he will show up again in any future stories… all I can say is… keep reading and you will find out."
Slipgate handed whitem a statuette, which he took, smiled at, and put on a side table for the moment before returning to the podium.
~~KPF8~~
After watching whitem return to the podium, Slipgate once again spoke into the mic. "Our next category is Best Songfic. The nominees are:"
- Brave, by temporaryinsanity91
- I Don't Care Anymore, by pbow
"The winner of the Fannie for Best Songfic this year is..."
whitem handed him an envelope, which he opened.
"pbow, for I Don't Care Anymore!"
pbow, now sporting a full beard and whiter hair, approached the stage with a smile, and the two presenters surrendered the podium to him.
"Wow, this is something. I've been writing KP stories for about seven years now and I think this is the first time I've ever been nominated. I guess the law of averages finally fell in my favor.
I'd like to thank all of the readers out there who voted for me, although there's a ton of stories on the site that deserve to be recognized more than I do. I'm just a guy with a few ideas. As I said in the intro to my story I Don't Care Anymore I started with the Phil Collins song and it just flowed from there. I could really imagine Ron getting so fed up with Bonnie's put-downs that he'd just explode in her face and mimic the musician. The rest just kinda flowed from there with each character speaking to both me and Bonnie. I just took dictation and fleshed it out with the descriptive. That's just the way I write. I start out with an idea and let the story play out before me in my mind.
Anyway, thank you for the recognition."
~~KPF8~~
As pbow left, whitem took the podium.
"Our next award will be our last before a brief intermission – for all you fancy real-world people out there, it will actually be the conclusion of this chapter of the awards ceremony. Speaking of 'other worlds' our next category is Best AU Story! Have you created a world where Shego's skin is purple? Where Kim and Ron are in Ancient Rome? Where authors are suddenly characters in stories winning awards for their own stories?" whitem paused at this one. "I'm pretty sure this story would be ineligible for this award, though."
Slipgate kicked his shin slightly and whitem continued.
"Anyway, our nominees are:"
- The Way of the Gun - The Red, The Green, And The Blues, by MezzicStorm
- Mrs. Destiny, by diav
- Cold, by temporaryinsanity91
- The Hunter: Book One, by Sentinel103
- Resident Evil: The Possible Files, by DragoLord19D & MezzicStorm
- Resident Evil: The Possible Files II The Shadow War, by DragoLord19D & MezzicStorm
- Ronicus et Leo, by Mr. Wizard
- The Stroke of a Key, by Reader101w
- Kim Possible: Clean Slate, by LJ58
"And our winner for the Best AU Story award is..."
Slipgate hands whitem an envelope, and he opens it.
"Sentinel103 for The Hunter: Book One!"
Sentinel103 got up from his table again and approached the stage. Slipgate and whitem stepped back a bit to allow him access to the podium, and Slipgate handed him a statuette.
"Hey this is getting to be pretty redundant being up here all this much." Sentinel103 told the crowd who were enjoying their night out, "I know I have said this before, but I really want to thank Slipgate and whitem for all the hard work in pulling this off. Now I want to introduce two of my characters who I invited on stage with me this time. They are Big Mike Little and Justine Flanner. Justine is the thin one, in case you were wondering. Yes I know I had them as a couple in the 'Once Again' ARC and they really fit together for me, so I have them in 'The Hunter: Book One.' I fully intend for them to be there through at least book three."
Obligingly, Justine and Big Mike got up and joined Sentinel103 on stage.
"I think that somehow even with the support of CB over there, that there would be no way that I could have won without the support of these supposedly bit players like Justine and Mike along with Steve Barkin. In truth I never meant this to be an AU…well I guess I did, but I didn't advertise it that way. I wanted to push the Yamanouchi training because I didn't think it works with Ron suddenly becoming Omnipotent and I absolutely hate having super-duper guys running around with no weaknesses. And since the graduation was a wakeup call for Kim…..well Ron's training had to be done on the sly so she didn't know.
So there is stuff going on behind the scenes and I am slowly revealing it. Once (I think it was on my first anniversary) my wife and I went to a restaurant for a meal. There was a sign up at the eatery that said 'good food takes time.' I think that for an epic the same holds true, it takes time to tell a story and to have a background in it. That is what I am trying to do here. Soooo again thank you everyone who voted for my story and I want thank everyone who voted for the Bearsent176 team I make up with CajunBear73 as well. I hope to see you all next year and that someone else will be up here speaking in my place."
~~KPF8~~
As he left the stage with his characters, whitem and Slipgate smiled as they took take their places again.
"Wow," whitem said as all three walked off the stage, "that Big Mike is one big dude. Anyway, after giving out six awards, we think we've earned a slight break."
Slipgate continued, "There's more drinks, more chicken on sticks, and more music as we get ourselves ready to hand out the next six awards! Stick around!"
"It's Just You" from Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time started playing, and everyone turned to either the appetizer table or the people sitting next to them.
To be continued...