I agree there should be balance, but where is that balance? Obviously you can't make Lyon or even Eirika or Valter the same exact person they are in the games. You can make the similar enough to please the fans (for the most part), but you can't ever make them a carbon-copy. It doesn't work that way.
Though I think I like AU fics for the sole reason that the struggles in an AU are usually...small, intimate. Not on a global scale-- teenagers saving the world.
I'd love to see an AU fic where, say, teenage FE characters have to overcome something major on their own-- but it doesn't have to be global anything. For all I care it can be a teenage pregnancy. (Just an example.) It's certainly not global, but to a group of teenagers it might FEEL global.
^I mean, if we're going with teenage heroes again.
But then again, making, say, Serra or L'Arachel into mid 30s adults issssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss against canon and it's AU so I can safely say that a mid-30s AU L'Arachel is not going to be like the one in the games. In fact. They shouldn't be imo. Not in a modern AU. None of the cast, particularly the main cast, should feel exactly the same. Or there's something wrong.
I mean, Lyn can be all ragey over some drunk guy in a semi kersplatting her parents but he's going to jail or prison or some shit, and it's not like she's going to contemplate murdalizing him when he gets out. (Because it'd be a while? Because it's illegal? Well duh.) That strips part of her character away either way: you have to choose: is she going to be amazingly full with the desire to get revenge and try to kill the guy, which goes against all the rest of her character?
I mean, there aren't exactly modern-day equivalents to bandits destroying an entire settlement of people unless you wanna go back to the 1800s and do Cowboys vs. Indians stuff. But that's not exactly modern, you know? And a drunk guy running over her parents isn't even REMOTELY like seeing them be mercilessly slaughtered along with only God knows how many other people.
But we have to also make allowences for modern-day bringing up. Death was a big deal to Lyn, definitely. I mean, in the canon. But she lives in a medieval fantasy world where death happens, bandits do kill people for trinkets (or for fun), and murder plans are just hush-hush among the villagefolk but all plans are totally out in the open-- just, nobody chooses to act on stopping them.
They way her people and, especially, parents, died had a big impact on canon Lyndis. But on a modern-day person? It'd probably traumatize the fuck out of them.
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Date: 2011-09-29 11:55 pm (UTC)Though I think I like AU fics for the sole reason that the struggles in an AU are usually...small, intimate. Not on a global scale-- teenagers saving the world.
I'd love to see an AU fic where, say, teenage FE characters have to overcome something major on their own-- but it doesn't have to be global anything. For all I care it can be a teenage pregnancy. (Just an example.) It's certainly not global, but to a group of teenagers it might FEEL global.
^I mean, if we're going with teenage heroes again.
But then again, making, say, Serra or L'Arachel into mid 30s adults issssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss against canon and it's AU so I can safely say that a mid-30s AU L'Arachel is not going to be like the one in the games. In fact. They shouldn't be imo. Not in a modern AU. None of the cast, particularly the main cast, should feel exactly the same. Or there's something wrong.
I mean, Lyn can be all ragey over some drunk guy in a semi kersplatting her parents but he's going to jail or prison or some shit, and it's not like she's going to contemplate murdalizing him when he gets out. (Because it'd be a while? Because it's illegal? Well duh.) That strips part of her character away either way: you have to choose: is she going to be amazingly full with the desire to get revenge and try to kill the guy, which goes against all the rest of her character?
I mean, there aren't exactly modern-day equivalents to bandits destroying an entire settlement of people unless you wanna go back to the 1800s and do Cowboys vs. Indians stuff. But that's not exactly modern, you know? And a drunk guy running over her parents isn't even REMOTELY like seeing them be mercilessly slaughtered along with only God knows how many other people.
But we have to also make allowences for modern-day bringing up. Death was a big deal to Lyn, definitely. I mean, in the canon. But she lives in a medieval fantasy world where death happens, bandits do kill people for trinkets (or for fun), and murder plans are just hush-hush among the villagefolk but all plans are totally out in the open-- just, nobody chooses to act on stopping them.
They way her people and, especially, parents, died had a big impact on canon Lyndis. But on a modern-day person? It'd probably traumatize the fuck out of them.