[ SECRET POST #4366 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4366 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's true, but that's also not what "in character" means. It's not as flexible of a term as you're trying to argue it is. When people say "in character", they mean in character as relating to canon, not in character as relating to whatever story the character happens to be in. Otherwise all characters would be in character, no matter how bizarre or crackfic-like the story is.


The point I'm making is that "good characterization" and "in-character" are fundamentally different standards. "In-character" is a standard that only makes sense in terms of fidelity to the source material; "good characterization" is a standard that can be applied to a story on its own. I said that a character can still be a good character even if they're OOC, and I still think that's true. I definitely don't think that you can be in-character, relating to canon, if they're OOC.

And I don't think that's an expression of a value preference in any way, to be clear. I understand that many people reading fanfic are fundamentally interested in reading stuff that is in-character, and I respect that and am not arguing that this is wrong. It's just not something that matters to me personally. If it matters to you whether a character is IC, that's entirely valid. I don't think that's the only possible way for a character to be well-written, but it's still a valid thing to want to read.

The problem lies in telling someone else who doesn't like anchovies that their anchovy pizza is good is missing the rather flamingly obvious point that from their perspective, it isn't.

I don't think I ever said that this was anything other than my own personal perspective. If replying to a post to say that you don't share a person's views is bad, then I'm guilty of that, but I don't think I've said that anyone else should share my personal views about whether or not being OOC matters.