When Bad Fanfic Happens to Good Characters, Part I

Part One: A Closed Circle

I started reading FE7 'fic long before playing the game out of a combination of boredom and desperation.  Writers I enjoyed, like shimizu_hitomi , had FE7 (and FE6) works that looked promising, and the simple fact was that Elibe fanworks outnumbered Archanea fanworks by about three orders of magnitude.  So I got a taste of the prevailing fan-take on the FE7 gang long before I actually sat down with the source material.

( In which I tl;dr about FE7 fiction )

Stay tuned for Part Two: When Pairings Eat a Fandom