Racebent J&W

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

If any of you've heard of dark_agenda's Racebending Revenge challenge, it's been on my mind to do something like that. I know that Bertie's dialogue is very much reflective of his status as rich and white, but what about a black Jeeves? That's the closest I can keep it in the time period; obviously in most other fandoms we could transplant them to other times or place, but in this case it'd be made more difficult because of Wodehouse's slang.

Link (for those who need screenreaders): http://dark-agenda.dreamwidth.org/7371.html

Thoughts?

Comments

[schreckschraube.livejournal.com]

Well, Wodehouse did write Coneybear's speech into his stories, so there's some "black slang" in canon... but if you want to use THAT slang, that's a different question...

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I meant Bertie's usual slang rather than the black slang... I don't know if I could get away with making Bertie black or even mixed-race, as that would (AFAIK) take away much of his status and therefore the Beetie-Jeeves dynamic.

[schreckschraube.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I get it! I thought it was just about making Jeeves black, which is of course a smaller challenge.