[ SECRET POST #4099 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4099 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I will look for mainly A/B but don't care if other pairings are included.

Especially if A/C or B/C or B/D or whatever, are canon ships that play huge roles in A & B's character development and lives, then I feel it's ridiculous to complain if C & D exist as present plot, backstory plot, or are mentioned in passing. I'd expect those character-defining relationships to exist, even if they're turned into exes or not-a-ship-but-shared-an-attraction-in-the-past type stuff.

I probably wouldn't read a fanfic that recons and erases huge parts of the canon character I like, especially if the point of the erasure is purely to turn the character gay and repulsed by the opposite sex so as to not have to deal with unbearable complexity and impurity of being bi.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more to deal with the complexity of breaking up a canon couple without making one or both halves awful people, or trying to convince the readers that A and C parted amicably for reasons they'd never part ways over in canon.

Re: Pairing preferences in a fic

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. Also, depending on where in the storyline you set it, the canon couple could not even have happened yet.

But I'd find it contrived if the third character magically didn't exist if they played a significant role in canon. "Spike and Buffy meet in a cafe and fall in love and Angel/Angelus and Drusilla never existed" is a Spike/Buffy ship fic, but it's a Spike/Buffy ship fic would make me cringe and misses a whole lot of beats that makes the ship what it is.

Regarding the gay point, I'm not saying it's all about the gay. But I'm saying a whole lot are, and I'd avoid those.