Can you all tell I have nothing to do except post in my journal? I read or write fic or watch TV all day until I go to or after I come home from work. IT IS GLORIOUS.
(Yes, I know, I should probably be going to work out or starting prep for the fall for my thesis or something, but I think I can take the month of May off for the love of Chuck, right?!)Anyway. Fic and naming question I'm putting out there for you fine folks.
So, we know that in canon, Dean is named after his grandmother Deanna, yes? Yes. So, it seems likely that, should Dean have been born a girl, his name would have been Deanna, correct?
This seems logical to me.
Several authors when writing genderswitched Dean have used this name. I'm pretty sure I saw it back in my Wincest days, and I've seen it more recently in the D/C pairing. I know for sure
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aesc uses "Deanna" for her girl!Dean 'verse. But, I have also seen other variations of Dean in fic including Dina and probably some others.
My concern is, when writing always-a-girl!Dean fic...is the name intellectual property? Or can it be termed fanon? That is, I don't want to plagarize
aesc and any other author who may have called Dean "Deanna". Yet, I find myself unable to think of another creative female form of Dean. And to me, it makes sense that Deanna could be considered canon as a female Dean's name. But again, I do not want to upset fandom (nor infringe upon the authors creations!) by inappropriately "stealing" the creative name of another fan to use in fanfiction.
Thoughts?
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Feel free to send other SPN fans over here whether they read Dean/Cas or genderswitch or not. I'd like a general temperature reaction to this issue.
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