[ SECRET POST #4866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4866 ⌋

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Comments

[catdetective]

Oh man... yeah. Like, I understand wanting to rewrite canon if a character does something that feels extremely OOC-- especially in TV shows with an inconsistent writers' room or a long run and a poorly-kept show bible, it happens! But when it's just 'what if this character never did A Bad Thing', it's like...

What's the point? Why must we remove nuance and complexity?

I think it CAN be interesting to explore an AU that diverges from a key point and has a character making different decisions, but not when it's just to remove any moral dilemma. Characters who have made mistakes and need to take action to atone for them are interesting! Relationships which have been impacted by these mistakes are interesting! I love reading about things like that. Characters who are fallible are human, they're relatable. Characters who do bad things and then seek redemption, too!

I think a lot of the smoothing out of canon faults comes from the current purity thing sweeping a lot of fandom. There are a lot of people who aren't comfortable with anything that isn't black and white, and it's not just that they won't deal with a morally grey character, it's that if a writer knows that a certain segment of their audience is going to get up in arms over portraying a character with their canon faults, they might opt to push those faults under the rug to avoid drama.