You posted your last comment anonymously, so I'm replying here.
By "last chapters" do you mean previous chapters to this? Or the last chapters of the fic (which haven't yet been posted)? I'm not seeing why in this ficverse Wilson makes the decision, so am thinking I must have missed something. I'm getting a bit confused myself, because I'm editing the next few chapters while posting the present ones, but basically I mean the last posted chapters and the next one or two chapters.
In canon I didn't see how Wilson went from being reasonably normal and balanced to being unwilling to fight for his life. His life seemed no worse than in previous seasons, both his job and his friendship with House -- according to S1-Wilson the only two constants in his life -- were in calm waters, we heard of no private problems (bereavement, a relationship gone wrong), there's no mention of him being particularly down. If he had in recent times come to doubt the efficacy of cancer treatment, shouldn't we have been shown this in some manner, for instance in a reluctance on his part to advise his patients to submit to rigorous chemo? We saw the opposite in the second episode of S8. What changed in the few months between that episode and the cancer arc? The people he mentioned as having died despite a good prognosis had mostly died before S8, IIRC.
My fic doesn't make much more sense than in canon, because as you say it probably wasn't meant to be understandable to outsiders, but IMO I've at least laid the groundwork for Wilson to be depressed enough that not fighting seems a sensible option. There's no 'friendship' worth mentioning, he's working in research because Nolan doesn't trust him to work with patients as yet (that's the one thing you might have missed, as it's a carry-over from The Kelpie), and he has relapsed, which would be depressing even without the cancer diagnosis. In The Kelpie he attempted suicide, so suicide by neglect wouldn't be such a big step further.
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Date: 2014-04-18 06:25 pm (UTC)By "last chapters" do you mean previous chapters to this? Or the last chapters of the fic (which haven't yet been posted)? I'm not seeing why in this ficverse Wilson makes the decision, so am thinking I must have missed something.
I'm getting a bit confused myself, because I'm editing the next few chapters while posting the present ones, but basically I mean the last posted chapters and the next one or two chapters.
In canon I didn't see how Wilson went from being reasonably normal and balanced to being unwilling to fight for his life. His life seemed no worse than in previous seasons, both his job and his friendship with House -- according to S1-Wilson the only two constants in his life -- were in calm waters, we heard of no private problems (bereavement, a relationship gone wrong), there's no mention of him being particularly down. If he had in recent times come to doubt the efficacy of cancer treatment, shouldn't we have been shown this in some manner, for instance in a reluctance on his part to advise his patients to submit to rigorous chemo? We saw the opposite in the second episode of S8. What changed in the few months between that episode and the cancer arc? The people he mentioned as having died despite a good prognosis had mostly died before S8, IIRC.
My fic doesn't make much more sense than in canon, because as you say it probably wasn't meant to be understandable to outsiders, but IMO I've at least laid the groundwork for Wilson to be depressed enough that not fighting seems a sensible option. There's no 'friendship' worth mentioning, he's working in research because Nolan doesn't trust him to work with patients as yet (that's the one thing you might have missed, as it's a carry-over from The Kelpie), and he has relapsed, which would be depressing even without the cancer diagnosis. In The Kelpie he attempted suicide, so suicide by neglect wouldn't be such a big step further.
Hope that helped.