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stardust_rifle ([personal profile] stardust_rifle) wrote2019-03-29 08:30 am
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I know that in RPF there isn't such a thing as OOC because we don't actually know these people, we only know their carefully constructed stage personas, yada yada yada, but every so often you run into a characterization that is so utterly baffling that you have to wonder, why? What was the author thinking?

For those interested in what provoked this post, a Jrocker was given "I want to have babies and be a happy homemaker but can't" as their sole defining character trait. Let's just say their stage persona is very...at odds with this.
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[personal profile] yvannairie 2019-03-29 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't do much RP but oh god I. Feel this, because I have faves who also get characterised in similarly bizarre ways. Like, how some people manage to see the high-strung perfectionist with a controlling streak as this empathetic Mother Hen type who's ready to drop all their emotional guards to get someone to do the same, I just... Like, that is literally the opposite of what he is in canon??? How???????
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle 2019-03-29 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Fanon. Fanon finds a way.

This wasn't a common fanon characterization, though. He's either a psycho murderer or a rough-around-the-edges tsundere, depending on how edgy the author wants to be.
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[personal profile] hitokage 2019-03-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
... well, at least it's a change from the edgelords and borderline psychotics?

I think someone's projecting onto their fav is what that is.
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle 2019-03-29 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just...staring. Why would they use Kyo, of all people?
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[personal profile] hitokage 2019-03-29 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
.... falling back on "projecting own wants onto fav" because that's ... that's really the only possible explanation my brain can find.
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle 2019-03-29 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That, or bad, Breaking Dawn-esque writing.


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[personal profile] reilaflowers 2019-03-29 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, Kyo? This is even more shocking than what I was imagining. I can believe that he'd want to be a father, but if he wanted to be a homemaker he'd have quit by now.
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[personal profile] stardust_rifle 2019-03-29 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It was an Omegaverse AU, but it just caught me off guard.

It also had a side effect of infertility angst, which...You know that one bit in Eclipse where Leah Clearwater says that she's a genetic freak of nature and she'll never be happy because she's sterile?

Imagine that, but stretched out for over ten chapters worth of poorly written angst.
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[personal profile] reilaflowers 2019-03-30 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a fun read.
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