Inside the Head of Pallas

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Inside the Head of Pallas
Interviewer:	Amy Murphy
Interviewee:	Pallas
Date(s):	February 2002
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Xena: Warrior Princess
External Links:	full interview is here, Archived version
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Inside the Head of Pallas is a 2002 Xena: Warrior Princess fan interview at Whoosh!.

Series

For others in this series, see Whoosh! Interview Series.

Some Excerpts

I'm a writer. It's my profession and it's my life, so of course I would write. Would I write Xena fan fiction? I dunno. The ideal of the two characters still fascinates me, but after watching where the show has taken them, I'm not sure if I would feel the same way about the possibilities. I still think from an alternate lifestyle perspective, the Xena/Gabrielle pairing has opened a world of good fiction where there was frightfully little choice. Despite what RenPic [Renaissance Pictures] did with the characters, their show has inspired so many to take up the challenge and produce better fiction. So, yes, I probably would still have become a bard.

I started writing fan fiction by reading fan fiction. A lot of the stories I read sparked my imagination and others left me saying "I can do better than that". A friend I met on-line encouraged me to write a story and from that Ravages of Spirit was born. Today the story makes me cringe, but for where I was coming from at the time, it was a good effort.

I love it. I think it helps add another dimension to the characters. I think in the case of Xena, it helped move her from what could have turned into a dull two dimensional "hero" character into a more living breathing "hero" character. The aspect of their friendship or relationship expanded the show beyond the premise of "hero looking for redemption." The subtext made for a richer enjoyment, and the question of are they or aren't they led to a lot of interesting discussions.