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a) a story set in the past when an (adult) main character was a child

b) stories set in the present/future with a child canon character or OC

Which do you prefer, if you read kid-fics at all?

B. B b b b b b b b bbbbbbb.

Definitely B, although it depends a bit on fandom or pairing or whatever whether I'd be into it, since adding a kid isn't automatically interesting for me (although I'll always make exceptions for a well-written fic that makes it work).

I'm not terribly interested in reading about characters when they were younger, although it can be interesting occasionally. I think I've just been burned too much by AUs where everyone meets as a kid/teen/college student and those are never interesting for me.

A million times a). I do not give a single shit about stories about a child OC and I don't have any significant experience with canon child characters, but I absolutely LOVE stories about an adult character's childhood.

I love both.

But I prefer main character as a child to be deaging fic.

Yes. Do you jave a preference on whether they keep their adult minds versus going full kid regression? I think both are interesting depending on if the focus is mainly on the de-aged (keeps their mind) or the people turned into sudden caretakers (full-on kid).

I prefer full kid regression because then we get caretaker hijinks. And I love those

Depends on the character the fic is focusing on. For some characters, I really love to read about their childhood. For others, I prefer to read about them interacting with a child.

I'm not a huge fan of cutesy kid-fics, but I've had the fortune of coming across several well-done ones.

Well, I guess I prefer A, because that can provide some valuable insight/theories about how an adult character became who, or what, they are today.

B can be done decently if handled correctly. Most of the time I've noticed, that it's just a retelling of the adult's story with new characters, with nothing new added to the story line (like Little Mermaid II, or Lady and the Tramp II for instance.)

A, by *far*.

Definitely A, because a lot of times when I seek out fan fic it's to read different interpretations of the pasts of characters who didn't receive backstories or only had them hinted at in canon. But I guess I wouldn't normally consider the general concept in itself "kid-fic" because it's not the character being a child that specifically interests me so much as the backstory aspect. Also I'd probably be more interested in their adolescence/adulthood anyway, unless the canon indicates something significant happened in their childhood.

I might read something in B if it was about the future of a younger character, but it'd probably have to be for a canon with a really interesting premise or setting that'd guarantee a unique plot that character could fit into. Otherwise I wouldn't be particularly interested in reading gen or romance about a different version of what's probably a secondary character in the original medium.

An OC child wouldn't interest me at all. I can like OCs when they fill a needed role in a story the canon characters are featured in, but I've never seen a case where a fic that started off with and centered on one really kept my interest.

Likely A, because usually it's the canon character I came for. It dopesn't work every time, some childhood fics can drag unforgivably, but if they don't, it can be an interesting insight into how the character comes to be who they are, or how the character grows up differently from what we know in canon, and how that in turn affects canon events.

A lot of the time B fails for me because it's the Canon Character parent I'm interested in. It has to be a good story, preferably one about the child learning about their parent's past deeds, for me to really like it. I do recall a great HP fic about a girl who comes to Hogwarts and for a class project starts writing to the missed Harry Potter, unaware that he is her father.

I might read either, or a story where the canon character has been de-aged. It depends so much on the story; if it's just for the aww-cute, I'm not all that interested. But if it illuminates something about the canon characters? I'm SO THERE.

A.

I don't really care much for kid OC's.

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