[ SECRET POST #061 ]

[grayout.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #061 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe.

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Notes:

Posting for Liz and totally not just slacking off from starting both of the take-home midterms I have due tomorrow. Okay, maybe slacking a little.

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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 020 secrets from Secret Submission Post #009.
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Comments

[superheroine]

5. It's already like that, imho. Zexion wasn't a trendy emo boy until KH2 hit and the Organization was suddenly big, for example. I never saw uber-feminine!Marluxia until after KH2.

(icon directed at those people, naturally)

And it's not a matter of being a fan of them longer - it's a matter of having played COM and getting their characterizations RIGHT.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I never saw uber-feminine!Marluxia until after KH2.

-- I did! It is/used to be all over Japanese fanart sites, Marluxia being all weepy and blushy and uke to like, Axel or something. It was pretty awful. >>"

[superheroine]

I didn't start hitting up the Japanese fanart sites until after KH2, but I've seen it too - the big AkuMaru thing? I agree. Crap, crap, crap. Either way, I was more referring to the side of fandom we end up seeing more - the North American side - but I won't disagree with you.

Then again, the vast majority of doujinshi are Japanese-made, and to this day I have found few that are entirely IC :P Besides, in all honesty, you see very little Japanese fanart that's IC, for KH, really.

I don't like the fandom's mentality that the Japanese's OOC is okay, though. It's kind of weird.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I don't like the fandom's mentality that the Japanese's OOC is okay, though.

-- totally agreed. I can't even look at some doujin 'cause like... even if the art is beautiful it's like why are they acting like that whyyyyy, it's like other people in my favorite characters' bodies, what's wrong with this comic??? *diiies*

[x-of-greene-x.livejournal.com]

Really? I saw a LOT of girly!Mar-- not even just in Japanese sites, either, Case.

I also saw a lot of emo!Zex, for um, what I saw of Zex-- which wasn't much.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

Makes you wonder if Square got pissed and gave Marluxia that really deep voice to compensate for it. *dies*

[shahni.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did. But concerning the fanart, it's a lot easier to get more views for humor than it is to get for like UBERSERIOUS pics, right? I mean, at least fanartists can get away with it by playing on the character's predominant traits, it's when they go LOL THAT'S WHAT THE CHARACTER -IS- LIKE when you worry.

Fanfiction writers now.. I want to say they have no excuse for butchering characterisation, but I feel like I'd be contradicting myself somewhere. >>"

[x-of-greene-x.livejournal.com]

They probably did. I think the same happened with Yazoo.