30DoFF: Day 7
Jan. 2nd, 2011 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zosimosDay 7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Oddly enough, no. I mean, I've never written a fic that changed my own opinion of a character - I am pretty passionate in my likes and dislikes. Now, age and wisdom has changed my perspective on characters: (See: Relena from Gundam Wing, pretty much half the cast of Rurouni Kenshin), but that was all in their own canon and no effect on the writing I've done or will do. Generally even if I dislike characters I try not to carry my prejudices through to my writing.
On the reverse side, I have wanted to slap a few characters after writing them, but that's more from a fan side versus a creator side. Misunderstanding and idiocy is what fuels a lot of stories - if characters wouldn't be so stupid and stubborn and prideful and would just talk to each other issues could get worked out easier - but unfortunately that wouldn't make for interesting fic now, would it?
Oddly enough, no. I mean, I've never written a fic that changed my own opinion of a character - I am pretty passionate in my likes and dislikes. Now, age and wisdom has changed my perspective on characters: (See: Relena from Gundam Wing, pretty much half the cast of Rurouni Kenshin), but that was all in their own canon and no effect on the writing I've done or will do. Generally even if I dislike characters I try not to carry my prejudices through to my writing.
On the reverse side, I have wanted to slap a few characters after writing them, but that's more from a fan side versus a creator side. Misunderstanding and idiocy is what fuels a lot of stories - if characters wouldn't be so stupid and stubborn and prideful and would just talk to each other issues could get worked out easier - but unfortunately that wouldn't make for interesting fic now, would it?