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saint-starflicker · 20 days ago

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It should be more difficult to argue for mischaracterization in fanfiction, because a fanfiction is divergent from the source material in the first place. The moment The Character is written to say "Hey how's it going" versus "Greetings, allow me to introduce myself" is already some distance from the source material either way, even if one voice is arguably more similar to the canon of That Character than the other. What I think readers can sympathize with is the process between parsing the source material and running the simulation that is the fanfiction version of The Character, but that's largely a mystery. The process is not going to be in the text itself.

unless they specifically asked, you don’t get to tell a fanfic writer you think they mischaracterized the character by the way. because the second someone writes a fanfic about a character, that character becomes the writer’s own version of the character. canon is only a suggestion, but whether or not an author will follow it / how much of canon an author will take is entirely up to them. you don’t get to stick your nose in their world and tell them “hey this is not to my liking therefore I think you’re doing it wrong” when you can simply leave quietly and move on to something else you may enjoy

#I'm thinking of how the Persons 3 fan comic Persona 3FTW had such a chad sense of comedy—#—so it was as out on character as a crackfic or summarized badly meme is meant to be #meanwhile the Jason McConnell who lives in my head sometimes sounds like Neil McCormick—because I'm experimenting with style not character #but if that's mischaracterization then yes I'll take it because I can sense the characterization drift too #But most of the time it's something in-between or a secret third thing.#OOBC Jason McConnell was cast and directed to be kinda jerkfaced from the first moment...#...but fanfictions that describe him as heroic/kind do make more sense (or else Peter Simmonds comes off as really stupid for liking him)..#...so that's not MY characterization but it IS somebody else's good characterization (Dalles Wilie's) (...Jason Hite's too a lil bit)#Aaron Tveit's Gabe Goodman versus Jack Wolfe's Gabe Goodman: wildly opposite but I understand why some fans like one over the other...#...and BOTH are Canon Gabe!#I disliked BTM Peter so much that my internet handle is named for him. But I have read some meta that listening to BTM P's vindictiveness—#—is cathartic and your know what? Good for you. This version was staged and accessible. Eat well.#So if canon can do that with big name Broadway stars involved & ticket prices—then why not free fun hobbyists fanfictions by fans?#heck Andy Mientus's Hanschen touring back in like 2007 versus Andy Mientus's Hanschen in 2016 were not the same guy #despite being exactly the same guy playing the same guy.#...Is it just the medium? Are television shows or novels more restrictive about The Character because there is only one definitive version?#(naur can't be; I watched a bootleg of Bare in which Peter and Jason were STRAIGHT)#(as in they flinched away once the lights went up on Matt at the end of Best Kept Secret like ewwwww i kissed a boyyy...)#(when Jason was dying Peter pointed & laughed. These are not The Character. They're actors beefing with each other backstage & it shows wtf #fanfiction

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