[ SECRET POST #2987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2987 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are AUs where the characters really do fit in that world while still being recognizably themselves. You can see how their canon personality and interest mesh well in this different setting, how some friendships and rivalries remain, etc.

Then there are others that do not resemble in any way themselves. Sometimes not even physically, but most of the time is that they simply do not think or behave in any way that resembles canon.

It's a sliding scale, and at one point you just have to wonder why even keep the pretense that it's not an original character dressed up like a canon one.

[(Anonymous)]

I understand and agree with this comment perfectly. However, I've seen more than a few people treat all AUs like they fit the second description, so I'm a little skeptical. I feel like I need examples.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, sort of embarrassing, but the clearest example I can think of right away was Kagura from Inuyasha.

Long story short, the Big Bad of the show, Naraku created Kagura to work for him, but the moment she wanted out, she realized she was trapped into working for him, on penalty of dying instantly if she disobeyed because DEMON MAGIC or something. She spends the rest of her life trying to break free.

ANYWAY. Some AUs I read had Kagura be trapped under Naraku in different ways: like him being an abusive father and she too young to figure out how to escape, or him being a criminal ring leader who ensnared her too well for she to get out, etc.

That's a way to transplant those characters and their relationship into a different setting and still remain sort of the same.

But then there was another AU called "Naraku's Angels" where she and two other female characters willingly worked for Naraku who was mysterious but not malicious.

It really could have been an "OCs play out Charlie's Angels", because the only way those characters (and the rest of the cast) resembled Inuyasha was that Sesshoumaru had adopted Rin. That was all. None of them were terribly similar in character or ability or relationships to the canon.

So, not a bad story, but it was a fanfiction of Inuyasha in name only.