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Stacy in Bloom | 1: Don't You Forget About Me
Title: Stacy in Bloom
Fandom: Kids Incorporated
Universe: Canon (Season 5 – 1988)
Genre: Friendship/Romance
Rating: T
Summary: With her sister and best friend halfway across the world, who else is there for Stacy to turn to…but Ryan? When the consequences of their actions become clear, the two must decide if pursuing each other is worth breaking up the band.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5873801/1/
If you guys would be kind enough to at least click on the URL and let me know if my story disappears from FF.net, that would be much appreciated.
So, yeah, my new-old fandom is this little show called Kids Incorporated, which ran in syndication, and then on the (then-premium) Disney Channel from 1984-1993. It was in reruns until the mid-90s, which is when/how/where I became so familiar with it.
Obligatory resource post - here you can find out more info about the characters, episodes, and even what (little) fandom has existed for this show.
Mostly this fic is me rewriting Season 5 of the show. Season 5 is full of shippy goodness, even if its never actually dealt with directly onscreen. It was also Ryan's last season, and he was the first in a long line of characters to be written off without a proper farewell (aka, a mention in the next season about why he left/having to replace him). These were the two issues I wanted to tackle, and the direction my head-canon just naturally turned...because if even I can pick up on subtext, you know its pretty damn blatant, LOL.
Even though I'm more or less rewriting this season from scratch, I have thrown in some references from the episodes preceding (and following) the one I'm ultimately basing my story on. That particular episode is #11, "The Open Book," which just happens to be one of the few up on YouTube =) I'd suggest watching it first, so you understand exactly how this fic will diverge from it, if you're at all interested in background information...
A couple of things to keep in mind, even if you don't watch the episode:
[+] The season was filmed in 1988, which is what I'm using as the point of reference in canon - therefore, this story takes place in 1988, with all the resultant technology/pop culture references.
[+] As such, any fashion and/or music may be appropriately hilarious and/or tragic. I'm writing this with my sense of humor about me, so chances are, if you find the reference amusing, it was meant to be :P
[+] Character ages, especially Stacy's, have been hotly disputed within the fandom, but I've basically taken the ages from Season 2, when Ryan first appeared, as my starting point. Stacy was 9 then, Ryan approximately 12, hence the "aged up" three-year difference.
[+] All the songs referenced in the fic were actual covers performed by the band on the show in this season (so - there's the method behind the madness on that).
[+] If folks are interested, I'll keep a running tab of references from future chapters and post them along with any meta-style author's notes.
I was excited when I went to post this at FF.net, thinking they'd answered my request for the category and/or list of characters when I realized that both were magically there :D However, upon running over to my email to get the fic link, I instead found an email from FF.net staff, saying they wouldn't create the category because the characters and actors shared the same first names, which made writing fic for them RPF and thus, against the rules. I'm not about to tell them the category is already there, LOL! But I'm afraid the fic is going to disappear without explanation, which would suck :( If it does, I'll probably just repost in the Misc category, or I'll put it in my IY fic comm here at LJ.