All That Glitters
Reason for being in Truly Unique. – First GoldxOC story to not set my teeth on edge.
I will admit to this one being here for purely selfish reasons.
That and LizzeXX is a great author.
I'm going to begin by saying that I do like GoldxOC stories; they are usually good, or if nothing else they are always interesting.
The problem I have with them however, is the reoccurring theme of which most of them fall prey to. Girl meets Rumplestiltskin, girl is desperate, Rumpelstiltskin makes a deal with girl, while deal is being completed they fall in love. Pretty much how him and Belle fell in love. The problem is that the story continues with girl getting to a better place, realizes she is doing terrible things, or that Rumplestilskin is doing terrible things, and so now they're at cross purposes, and the girl usually end up trying to help in trying to foil one of his plans/ foils one of his plans and ends up getting thrown out by Rumple,and/or a surprising number of these stories having the girl helping with the whole crew throwing Rumplestiltskin into jail in the Cinderella deal trap.
I will admit, a lot of good stories have been written following this basic idea; however the problem with it is the fact that if you take a look at it, it is annoyingly close to what the show was doing with RumpleBelle in season 4b.
She loves him, but he's a terrible person. She wants to help him, but she can't let innocent (foolish) people be hurt. She doesn't want anything bad to happen to him or for him to suffer in any way, and yet she is okay with throwing him over the Town Line (what Belle did) or into a jail cell (what most OCs do).
Now I shall admit that not all fanfic of this sort falls into this category, but most of it either falls into this category, or the 'I made my own character, and now my fic doesn't make a lick of sense.' Or the 'still not done yet (After many years and I'm probably dead or in a comma).' Categories, which aren't much better.
And like I said this one is here for purely selfish reasons and those reasons are that this was the first one I found, and I searched quite a bit, that gave Gold an OC that tries to help him.
This OC also wants to help the heroes, and is in fact very protective of a few of them, but the author has done a brilliant job being able to find logical ways of explaining why her character must help both Rumpelstiltskin and the heroes. And this OC that wasn't like Belle who tries to force change to make him perfect, she is able in her own way to naturally nurture, if not a better man, then at least a more stable one.
I think most of this stems from the fact that unlike most people, the author decided that her character would be a villain, and in some ways proud to be a villain, and so there's not that annoying 'I'm holier than thou and therefore you must be the one to change (unrealistically) 'attitude.
And she doesn't fall into the trappings of most OC writings that I mentioned earlier, where nothing makes sense anymore, and has managed to avoid the trappings of a Mary Sue character. Combined with the fact that she normally updates one of her many many stories every day (unless real life gets in the way, but who hasn't had that problem) his story is an absolutely wonderful read, and it has two sequels already out and complete and one more at least in the works.
