[ SECRET POST #3570 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3570 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If your kink isn't compatible with a character's actual personality, why completely remove everything about them that makes them THEM in order to shoehorn it?

I think fanon plays a big part in the phenomenon you're talking about. If a person has a preference for a character to be a certain way, they tend to seek out fics that depict the character that way. And the more of such fics they read, the more that particular slant on the character comes to feel "right" to them. And slowly they become able to read characterizations that lean further and further in that particular direction, because it's become so normalized in their mind. For that person, the fanon has essentially overtaken the canon, to a degree. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that, as long as the person isn't going around arguing that their fanon preferences are true and right while other people's are wrong.

(BBC's Sherlock is like this for me. I enjoy a fairly sub-ish, vulnerable Sherlock characterization. In the beginning I could only read fics that took a very light touch in writing him that way. But over time I've come to accept more and more emphasis on a vulnerable, sub-ish Sherlock characterization. Five years on, he can be pretty damn smol before I stop recognizing him as Sherlock. However, I am aware that someone who favors a coldly dom-ish Sherlock will find "my" Sherlock jarringly OOC.)


OTOH, sometimes I'll read a fic where the characterization isn't skewed in a particular direction so much as it's just missing entirely. That's when I tend to just assume the writer strongly identifies with a particular character and is using that character as a self-insert. And there's nothing wrong with that either, though I personally choose to back button on those fics.