What I don't like is when the writer distorts a third character in order to make the favored pairing work -- in Yu-Gi-Oh, Anzu is turned into a raving harpy so that Yami/anybody can work, for example. Hell, I've seen her become a snappish, petty bitch towards Joey once because he was pregnant with Kaiba's baby...she called him a "fat cow," and Joy responded back with a joke I'd heard on Yo Mamma about Anzu having no breasts. O_o
Right.
If the writer has to distort the canon characters' personalities this much to make the story work, it's really not fanfiction any more. Agreed. Way back when I posted Star Trek fanfics, I was proud of the fact that they were completely impossible stories with everyone acting like twelve year olds. I cringe at those stories now.
One thing that irks me is when fanwriters focus on one aspect of a character and ignore the rest. Especially with both Kaibas, where Mokuba's become the typical kid brother/sister you see on every other show (Like Cardcaptors's Sakura with a penis :? ) who acts REALLY naive and Seto's so oblivious to Mokuba's needs it's rediculous. I came across one fic where Mokuba was cutting himself and had gone into drugs and depression and Seto never once drags him to a doctor. *facepalm*
Likewise, Yuugi's incredibly small for his age, so obviously, he just *has* to be a weepy girly uke in a fic where Yami/Jounouchi/Kaiba/Otogi/Ryou/Bakura/Malik doesn't WUB HIM OMG!!!1!!!1 Or even worse, when all his friends decide they like Yami better and abandon him.
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Date: 2006-12-25 09:21 am (UTC)Hell, I've seen her become a snappish, petty bitch towards Joey once because he was pregnant with Kaiba's baby...she called him a "fat cow," and Joy responded back with a joke I'd heard on Yo Mamma about Anzu having no breasts. O_o
Right.
If the writer has to distort the canon characters' personalities this much to make the story work, it's really not fanfiction any more.
Agreed. Way back when I posted Star Trek fanfics, I was proud of the fact that they were completely impossible stories with everyone acting like twelve year olds. I cringe at those stories now.
One thing that irks me is when fanwriters focus on one aspect of a character and ignore the rest. Especially with both Kaibas, where Mokuba's become the typical kid brother/sister you see on every other show (Like Cardcaptors's Sakura with a penis :? ) who acts REALLY naive and Seto's so oblivious to Mokuba's needs it's rediculous. I came across one fic where Mokuba was cutting himself and had gone into drugs and depression and Seto never once drags him to a doctor. *facepalm*
Likewise, Yuugi's incredibly small for his age, so obviously, he just *has* to be a weepy girly uke in a fic where Yami/Jounouchi/Kaiba/Otogi/Ryou/Bakura/Malik doesn't WUB HIM OMG!!!1!!!1 Or even worse, when all his friends decide they like Yami better and abandon him.
Fandom. *shakes head*