Frannie: the little black dress of due South femslash?

[luzula]

So I was thinking about due South femslash, and it struck me that basically all the femslash pairings are with Frannie. Here are the statistics for the sum total of the (really quite few) due South femslash fics posted at the AO3 and the DSA, split up by pairing (and not including crossovers):

Frannie/Elaine - 25
Frannie/Thatcher - 10
Frannie/Maggie - 8 (half of which were written by me *g*)
Frannie/Stella - 7
Frannie/Victoria - 1 (not actually posted, but I know someone had a long WIP with that pairing, so I'm including it)
Frannie/Irene Zuko - 1 (let me link to that, because it is very very good and I just discovered it)
Frannie/OFC - 1 (I wrote that one!)
Maggie/Victoria - 1 (hey, I wrote that one, too!)
Stella/Mackenzie King - 1

So basically Frannie is in all of them except two. What is the deal with that? Not that I'm complaining--I love Frannie! But why is no one writing, say, Thatcher/Stella?

Is it because Frannie seems more likely to be lesbian/bisexual? Or because she's people's favorite female character? Or because she's hot? Or because people feel she deserves some loving? Or because she has more onscreen time with other female characters? Hmmm. ETA: I just thought of this: maybe people dislike the canonical one-sided Frannie/Fraser and write femslash as a reaction?

ETA2: Also, the image of Frannie actually in a small black dress is a very nice one. : )

Comments

Re: I haz opinions on Frannie? \o?

[luzula]

Oh, awesome, you are writing the meta for me. \o/ Also, I love your Frannie icon.

Yeah, I love her going after what she wants, too--that's one of my favorite things about her. And you're also right about her having chemistry with people.

What are your Frannie WIP:s about? Just curious... (Also, I loved your Frannie-in-space fic.)

Re: I haz opinions on Frannie? \o?

[glitteryv]

LOL. Frannie's the one dS character I will always have a soft spot for. :P Frannie icon was made for me by podfic_lover via the Snowflake Challenge. :D!

One of the WIPs is the sequel to the Frannie-in-space fic. It's a due South/Killjoys xover (with a dash of Inception). I have a wall that's partially covered with index cards where I outlined the story. I might actually finish and (someday) post that one? Though the dS factor is reduced in account of the Killjoys. I rather not talk about the other one except to say that akamine_chan read the first 7k words about two years ago and occasionally pokes me about it to this day. (The draft as it stands is at 23k right now.)