I've read quite a bit of amnesia fic, but I don't think any of it has met the criteria you mention of A stalking an unreceptive B who is happy with hir life. Okay, maybe one.
My fic reading is pretty much Buffyverse-centric, so I don't know about other fandoms, but in Spikeworld (and he does seem to get it the most), it generally runs from the hilarious (S6 Spike gets amnesia and thinks he's secretly dating Xander instead of Buffy! Randy & Joan have adventures!) to the sublime (shanshued!Spike doesn't remember his vampire days, but he's still very Spike which means he's very into Buffy! shanshued!Spike doesn't remember ANYTHING and tries to piece it together, with and without help from the people that he meets!) I'm not sure I like the shanshued!Spike turns back into William trope, though. Too much power imbalance.
Sometimes it's happy/romantic, sometimes it's darkest dark. I think these are a bit like another big fic trope — traveling back in time to "fix" things. Sometimes it works better than others, depending on who's doing the telling. It's a reset for one side, a chance for a do-over, to try again without making the same mistakes. Personally, I'm sort of a fan of the variation on this where things go wrong anyway, though I've had some fun with them going right, as well.
In the real world though (and I've actually had a brief amnesia experience myself) it seems unlikely that an amnesia victim would not be curious about their past. For the most part, I'd think they'd be willing to explore that with people who claim some prior knowledge.
I haven't written any amnesia fic, but I might feel a Randy & Joan one coming on...
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Date: 2011-11-15 08:10 am (UTC)My fic reading is pretty much Buffyverse-centric, so I don't know about other fandoms, but in Spikeworld (and he does seem to get it the most), it generally runs from the hilarious (S6 Spike gets amnesia and thinks he's secretly dating Xander instead of Buffy! Randy & Joan have adventures!) to the sublime (shanshued!Spike doesn't remember his vampire days, but he's still very Spike which means he's very into Buffy! shanshued!Spike doesn't remember ANYTHING and tries to piece it together, with and without help from the people that he meets!) I'm not sure I like the shanshued!Spike turns back into William trope, though. Too much power imbalance.
Sometimes it's happy/romantic, sometimes it's darkest dark. I think these are a bit like another big fic trope — traveling back in time to "fix" things. Sometimes it works better than others, depending on who's doing the telling. It's a reset for one side, a chance for a do-over, to try again without making the same mistakes. Personally, I'm sort of a fan of the variation on this where things go wrong anyway, though I've had some fun with them going right, as well.
In the real world though (and I've actually had a brief amnesia experience myself) it seems unlikely that an amnesia victim would not be curious about their past. For the most part, I'd think they'd be willing to explore that with people who claim some prior knowledge.
I haven't written any amnesia fic, but I might feel a Randy & Joan one coming on...