I hate gotten, and rarely, if ever use it myself. If I do it's only ever in dialogue with one of my American characters, but even then it has to 'sound' right for that sentence. There has been the odd occasion when I've automatically typed gotten in speech, because it just 'felt' right, but normally, I use got. And I'd certainly use it in narrative.
Also, having just literally finished a mainstream book written by a pretty well know, well respected British author that was set in America and written in ... British English throughout, it just confirms my feeling that the obsession with using the 'correct' language in fanfic is a strange one.
So stick with your guns, go with got. I read your sentence out loud with both 'got' and 'gotten' and definitely got sounds right.
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:47 am (UTC)Also, having just literally finished a mainstream book written by a pretty well know, well respected British author that was set in America and written in ... British English throughout, it just confirms my feeling that the obsession with using the 'correct' language in fanfic is a strange one.
So stick with your guns, go with got. I read your sentence out loud with both 'got' and 'gotten' and definitely got sounds right.