[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Your berserk buttons

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious about people's definition of character bashing. I totally agree that it's not cool to simply state "Character X sucks" in a public forum or a community, etc, but what about "I dislike this character and here are the reasons why" or even "I hate this character and here are the reasons why"?
I get that it's character bashing if you suddenly portray Character X as a serial killer in your fic when there's no indication of such in the canon, for example, but is it character-bashing to portray a character in a negative light, as long as that portrayal is recognizably rooted in canon?
Of course, different people can have wildly different interpretations of canon, so that's an issue, but you see what I mean.
Is there a commonly-accepted definition of character bashing? Because simply being open about the fact that you dislike a character is not bashing, IMO. Especially if a character is overwhelmingly popular and beloved, I'll admit I get the urge to play devil's advocate, a little.

Re: Your berserk buttons

[(Anonymous)]

Outrageous statements with no basis in canon can be a form of bashing, but sometimes bashing can creep into that gray area of an opinion.

I don't mind if there's something that happened in canon and makes Character X a jerk for a while. I don't mind if people get mad at Character X and hate him for that during that time. Fuck him, he deserves it.

What irritates me is when they blow it WAY out of proportion and/or act like his jerkiness went on for far longer than it did. That to me is a form of character bashing. Yes, it can be a matter of interpretation. But hating on X for, oh, say, sleeping with Y's best friend Z (while he was going with Y) at the beginning of the story, and ignoring the fact that X realized how wrong it was and never did it again, defining him as "the cheater" when he later proved himself honorable and a good person is kind of stupid to me.

Now if someone wrote a fic where X turned back into a scummy cheater, it would depend. Is there a GOOD reason for the cheating? Or is this fic author's chance to giddily smear poop all over X's name again because they hate him?