Curse of knowledge

[yvannairie]

Currently struggling with what to make of the fact that a lot of people's "characterisation" really boils down to giving characters traits they find cool, righteous or "relatable" with little regard to how those traits would actually interact with their established characterisation.

Like, there's nobody out there making their fave "gay and homophobic", as interesting and potentially well-tracking trait that would be.

Comments

[palominocorn]

I've seen a number of writers who were capable of writing exactly one character: the person they want to be. It's weird to see two characters who are *said* to have completely opposite personalities *behave* in exactly the same manner.

Like, at some point they become OCs, and people should maybe admit that they want to play with their own dolls rather than try and force invented personalities onto existing characters. And especially when it's an AU, it becomes a case of "this is literally an original work with something else's serial numbers".

because we can forgive if our fave assaults people and flirts w/teenagers but not if he's LDP

[stardust_rifle]

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did you want to give me an invitation to complain about that time i suggested offhandedly that X Character that i like was probably politically right-wing and everyone jumped on my ass, or?