[ SECRET POST #3057 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3057 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Polandball]


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03.
[The X-Files]


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04.
[Nick Lea/Krycek]


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05.
[Plague Inc Evolved]


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06.
(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)


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07.
[Grimm]


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[Discworld]


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09.
[Magi the labrynth of magic]


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10.
[The Clangers]












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Comments

Re: Out of Character

[(Anonymous)]

I think characters, like people, have a set core. To ignore that core would be to make that character not that character at all any more. You can usually tell what that core is because the character themselves ICly values the things they stick to. But characters also have a lot of other traits that aren't as intrinsic, and that gives a lot of room to play around with AU.

Hermoine from Harry Potter is always going to be a driven, nerdy type of character that is determined and intelligent and values determination and intelligence. That's part of her core. If you remove that, she stops being Hermione. What she's nerdy about isn't set in stone, though. AU her into art school where she's determined to be the best illustrator in her class, or determined to be the first astronaut on Mars, and it may not be magic but it's still IC.

Re: Out of Character

[dani_phantasma]

I agree with this. I tend to phrase it as "staying true to the spirit of the character" . Even WITH different circumstances there should be something familiar there.

Honestly in most reasonable cases if you can do a good job SHOWING why they have this deviance from the canon, and do a good job of explaining where it came from in a way the audience can follow, I wouldn't consider that being OOC. But if NO ONE can see where it came from, that's when people start thinking "OOC"

Re: Out of Character

[(Anonymous)]

This is how I feel too.

I don't write many AUs, but when I do the whole point of it for me is to figure out how such a different setting/past/circumstances would still lead to the recognizable character we know from canon. I want to see how different experiences and events might have given them a new path, but that path will still have shaped their personality.

It's a dirty word lately apparently, but I feel the same way about genderbending in fic. Most characters' experiences are going to be wildly different if they've been/been presenting as male rather than female throughout canonical events, but I still want the core of their personality to remain true to canon. In that case it's a matter of working out how those different experiences would have informed who that character is today.

Re: Out of Character

[(Anonymous)]

I agree so much. If you take that character and stick them into an AU, they should still be that character even if the circumstances are different. Sadly, many people feel that just because it's an AU, it's all good reason to make the character act any way they want. Which is why I stay away from most AU's.