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[stardust_rifle]

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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[yvannairie]

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???????

[stardust_rifle]

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.