The funny thing is that I'm not on Spring Break.
Hay guyz, we're getting rude in here. So let's all stop having our fun and be normal. Sorry, peeps, but there's no more keeping it real. *holds out fist* Feel me?
No one's seen me be rude yet. And you don't want to see me rude.
What do you guys think of epic fics? You think having the fic as an epic genre makes it more deveolped, thought out, and better quality or is the epic genre a bit overated sometimes?
I'll just copy my comment from your LJ, since it's six in the morning. So this post? Does not bring on the lulz.
To be an epic fic, the fic has to fall into the definition of what an epic is, which is the hero leaving home, fighting adversaries, gaining allies, and returning home transformed in some way. That's what it takes to be an epic to me. And it doesn't matter if the hero fights an evil team or the demons inside of them, as long as the hero changes somehow.
For epic works, there's of course "Beowulf", "The Odyssey", and "Gilgamesh". Those are the top poems of the genre. As for novels, the one I can think of is a triad of books from the DragonLance series, called Legends. Good books.
There is such a thing as "epic" failure, as there are failures in every genre. I don't know right now what would make an epic fail. I just woke up.
My own Pokemon fanfiction started out in the basic sense of an epic. My character begins and ends at home. This edition, however, she never returns home, but finds a new one. I have no idea if I would call that an epic. I try not to stick my fic into a genre that it wouldn't meet the qualities of.