The actor thing totally makes sense, and I've heard of it before so I feel like I should've thought of it... it just doesn't sit well with me anyway. I understand that sometimes people want to write using characters' physical attributes & names (and sometimes the names get shortened weirdly and the physical attributes exaggerrated or glorified), but... it huuuurttss usss, precioussss. Like, I get the potential idea (I do that too to some extent), but if the writer admits to only writing a character a certain way 'cause a scene demands it... that just seems sloppy all over, no matter -what- characterization lives in your head. I guess the whole plot-guiding-characterization thing always seemed off to me, especially in any for of fanfiction.
Like, in a way, any fanfic tries to broaden a character's potential, and a lot are, broadly speaking, IC while ignoring certain bothersome events (hello, OoTP), but... I feel like you go too far when you force a character to do something just because the plot would go easier that way, or something. I just feel it's cheating and that's it :>
As far as having your own vision separate from canon-- if it's an internally consistent, believable-as-human-behavior sort of vision-- then yeah, the line of what's plausible is rather fuzzy :>
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Date: 2005-01-05 06:42 pm (UTC)Like, in a way, any fanfic tries to broaden a character's potential, and a lot are, broadly speaking, IC while ignoring certain bothersome events (hello, OoTP), but... I feel like you go too far when you force a character to do something just because the plot would go easier that way, or something. I just feel it's cheating and that's it :>
As far as having your own vision separate from canon-- if it's an internally consistent, believable-as-human-behavior sort of vision-- then yeah, the line of what's plausible is rather fuzzy :>