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A while back I made a comment elsewhere about the downside of fanfiction authors being too attached to their characters, which got misinterpreted to some degree and.. eh. Water under the bridge. I never meant to indicate that authors shouldn’t care about their characters, or that characters are mere tools to advance the goals of Plot and Story, or of Writing itself. A writer with enough skill can conceal dislike or indifference to his or her characters, and sometimes a character “comes alive” to the reader in spite of the author’s inability to like or understand the creation (see: Severus Snape up until HP7), but generally such things do show and it’s not pretty. And when an author loves a character enough to depict that character as a living, breathing creature with flaws and frailties, that shows too-- and it can be amazing.
I’m talking about something else, and though it’s certainly present in original ‘fic, I’ll confine the talk to fanfic here. And, just so nobody in FE fandom thinks I’m pointing fingers at them, I’ll draw my evidence from a dead fandom. How’s that?
( Dick Nixon says, "Avoid Complacency" )
I’m talking about something else, and though it’s certainly present in original ‘fic, I’ll confine the talk to fanfic here. And, just so nobody in FE fandom thinks I’m pointing fingers at them, I’ll draw my evidence from a dead fandom. How’s that?
( Dick Nixon says, "Avoid Complacency" )
