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jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2005-05-24 04:17 pm

Krycek

I mentioned Krycek while talking with some anime fen, and received blank looks.

I'm sorry, even if you are primarily anime and not live action, how can you not have heard of Krycek?

[Poll #500052]

[identity profile] fox1013.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I love Krycek, and at one time read a lot of Krycek fic, but have no interest in writing him.

But anyone who hasn't heard of him is dumb and mute and blind.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*snugs the foxlet*

Also, deaf.

[identity profile] out-there.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
But anyone who hasn't heard of him is dumb and mute and blind.

Dude. That's unfair.

I'm a slasher, I was an anime fan for a good few years, but I was never an X-Files fan. I'd seen three episodes in total over the years it was running on TV, and Krycek never appeared in those.

When I was at a slasher gathering a couple years ago, and people had songvids on TV, there was a Mulder/Krycek vid and when I asked "So, who's that guy?" I got the same reaction. *is still a little miffed*

Krycek isn't hydrogen. He isn't universal. You'd pick up on a little knowledge of him through being into US-TV fandoms, but if you were just into anime and not too into TV or the X-Files, it's not particularly hard to believe that you wouldn't know of him.

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[identity profile] ranalore.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And he grew his arm back and killed that bastard Mulder and the other bastard Skinner and lived happily ever after with Methos, the end.

*koff*

What?

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[identity profile] cadetdru.livejournal.com 2005-05-26 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

Yes, he did.

YES HE DID.

[identity profile] bethos.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I never watched X-Files when it was on, but it's in my Netflix queue and I know Krycek inside and out from fic ... not that I've written him. He's just so pretty.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
See? See? He's everywhere! Even not having watched X-files, you knew him! Because he is the little black dress of fandom!

Also, I hope you're not renting seasons of XF just for Krycek. He averaged about two episodes per season.

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[identity profile] speshope.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, I've seen like, one episode of X-Files with him in it ever and I didn't recognize him until someone said his name, but I know who he is, dang it. He's in every fandom everywhere! How can anime people not know him? He'd fit into so many anime fandoms as well, as long as there were guns! Or even if not!

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
...Now I want to write a Krycek/WK crossover.

Oh, my brain hurts.

But, yeah. Seriously.

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[identity profile] inarticulate.livejournal.com 2005-05-24 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I never ever watched any X-Files, and I know who he is-- vaguely. But that could be because I've heard you mention him. ;)

Kidding. I read X-Files fic a while back when I was less discriminating, and he featured prominantly in quite a few. :)

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
he featured prominantly in quite a few. :)

That's our boy. To read the fic, you'd think he was one of the stars of the show.

[identity profile] cygna-hime.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, I've never seen any X-Files, and I still have heard of him (and that he's the little black dress of the fandom). How can you not have heard of him?

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! He is everywhere. Like Carmen San Diego.

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[personal profile] luminosity 2005-05-25 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Gosh. I still have an XF/HL crossover WIP, where Rachel's an alien and Krycek killed her on Duncan's barge, thereby ruining his rug. Duncan had him up against the wall within 30 seconds (taffeta, darling).

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
*cracking up* Taffeta rug?

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[identity profile] tarzanic.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Sexy rat bastard, he was.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Ratboy! I knew I was leaving an option off the poll...

[identity profile] cloudtrader.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
See, Krycek is one of those characters that I totally can't stand on the show, but in fanfic, oh baby!

Dude. Now I shall have to reread some XF fic.

X-Files was actually my first online fandom. Ten years ago. OMG, I'M SO OLD!!!!!

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, I'M SO OLD!!!!!

This was also my reaction when I realized part of the problem with the anime kids I was talking to was generation gap.

I'm only 22! This can't be happening!

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[identity profile] vonbrigthi.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Actually if you're 12-15 I can... kind of see not knowing him. Like, maybe coming across his name once or twice but having no idea or interest. I mean, if only because the Xfiles zeitgeist seems to have passed on.

Oh god I'm old. *jumps off cliff*

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Actually if you're 12-15 I can... kind of see not knowing him.

If there are any 12-15 year olds on my flist, will they please stand up so I can boot them?

I made a special exception in the case of one 17-year-old, but this is SUPPOSED to be an 18+ journal.

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[identity profile] ann89103.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, the memories! I adored the X-Files (at least, through season six)! It was right around the airing of The Red and the Black that I bought my computer, and soon after I was checking out M/K slash.

From there a friend pointed me towards the anime fandom, and since I loved anime from a very early age, it was all to easy to fall into the anime fandoms.

Krycek was rightly named the 'little black dress' of fandom, though I honestly can see Schuldig as the anime version of that. A X-Files/WK crossover would be a wonder to behold: Crawford would give Mulder more headaches that CSM ever could, and Krycek and Farfarello working together or as enemies would be fun to imagine. Schuldig? Let him mindfuck Skinner and wreck havoc among the Lone Gunmen!

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've had people make arguments that xyz is the little black dress of anime fandom, but I think it's a harder argument to make, because anime fandom is so scattered. You never really know who's seen what, because access is limited and costly.

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[identity profile] calla-s.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I like Vic a lot *too*. Your sixth option makes me cry.

The Red and the Black made me aware of the existance of slash. I didn't actually *see* the kiss (my tv reception ws *that* bad), but on the newsgroup the next day people were talking about it, and someone said "There's actually these stories..." The End.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Your sixth option makes me cry.

I know, but I realized that part of the problem is that a lot of fen are so damn *young...*

but on the newsgroup the next day people were talking about it, and someone said "There's actually these stories..."

Hehe. God bless the recruiters. Someone got their wings for that comment.

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[identity profile] sorion.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't really into x-files... I popped in every now and then, so I do know him (in passing).
I have absolutely no clue what became of him, or anything. I just remember he was sort of hard to place.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
*snerk*

[spoilers]Skinner shot him in the head in the s8 finale "Existence"--ergo the first poll option. He actually returned as a ghost in the series finale at the end of s9, though...[/spoilers]

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[identity profile] daegaer.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
I know who is is, all right, but I've never read fic with him in it (mind you I've read about 3 X-Files fics in total, and they made me run away screaming).

[identity profile] daegaer.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Er, who he is, that is . . .

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[identity profile] jessara40k.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I remember reading a comment once that he's 'the Philosopher's Stone of objectionable canon', and that if you can't fix a gap by adding Krycek it can't be fixed. I always thought that was funny. But all I know about him is in fandom. Mind I read a lot of fandoms that I haven't seen the canon for - and I'm even writing for one anime fandom I haven't seen the canon for.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, ow. It hurts, it hurts...

*laughing wildly*

I'm currently eyeballs-deep in Fullmetal Alchemist. Which, like, is all about the Philosopher's Stone.

Now I'm picturing Ed trying to work Krycek into an alchemical array.

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[identity profile] cherusha.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wah, Krycek!

I was a late, late comer into the XF fandom (2003 to be exact). First fic I read was Ghosts, and then OMG went on to devour every single M/K fic -- good AND bad -- that was available on the net. *sigh* 'Twas the longest pairing I've ever stuck with. Good times.

Oh great, now I have nostalgia. How can I have nostalgia when it's only been two years?

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, [livejournal.com profile] flambeau. I have that nostalgia too.

[identity profile] myhappyface.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I *do* actually prefer Vic (him not being a sooperspy sort of weighed in his favor, plus he's adorable), but Mulder/Krycek is second only to my OTP. Ah, the love.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude, Vic is totally a sooperspy. He just happens to be a Canadian sooperspy. You know how it is. *grin*

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[identity profile] ladyvyola.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I miss him so.

And he was my last licence plate. My current is "LEXCORP" but I'm in the mood for a change. Hmmm, so many possibilities, so few letters....

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-25 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? You had a KRYCEK license plate? *grins*
ext_8105: my (former) self (Default)

[identity profile] cadetdru.livejournal.com 2005-05-26 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
LIEK OMG, I used to beta-read for this girl who totally...

Oh.

Right.

That was you.

*points to icon*

Paging Alex Krycek for Truth or Dare?

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-26 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
*snicker*

Krycek, I knew.

*Faith,* I didn't.

[identity profile] sparklebutch.livejournal.com 2005-05-28 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
*points at icon*

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-05-28 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hehe.

[identity profile] moderntime.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read all of the comments, but I had to point out that you could also be Japanese or non-American anime fen and not know who Krycek is.

[identity profile] jmtorres.livejournal.com 2005-06-06 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
KRYCEK IS UNIVERSAL! BEHOLD HIS POWER!