[ SECRET POST #5033 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5033 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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04. https://i.imgur.com/jliRtO9.png
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05. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of underage/grooming]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of possible sexual harassment]

[Ryan Haywood of Achievement Hunter]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #719.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people are giving you flack for this, OP. But I agree to some extent. There are a lot of fandoms out there with not particularly complex characters (not saying there aren't ones with complex characters Tony Stark comes to mind I'd argue due to the input of RDJ). I'm a major Marvel fan for example but I've gotta say, a lot of the characters are pretty stock. I learned this when I wrote a fic including Bucky and realised that, going by the movies, I don't know anything about him. I had to make up a bunch of stuff about his ambitions, what he enjoys, what he does to help when he's stressed, his complex feelings towards the other Avengers, his working through his trauma from being the Winter Soldier. By the end I realised I could turn it into an original fiction and no one would know any better.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah the thing is if OP had said "to some extent, some of these characters were very similar" then people would be like sure that's why tropes and stereotypes exist. When they generalize that to every single AU, it sounds like an RP/writing problem.

And if OP can't recognize that's mediocre RP, their judgment may not be reliable here.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Tropes and archetypes are a well-recognized thing that have existed as long as fiction itself has, but characters who fall into the same general trope/archetype are still going to have their own individualities that differentiate them.

If OP can't tell the difference between characters, that's not an AU problem, that's a bad writing/characterization problem, full stop. They may all be Shounen Heroes, for example, but Ichigo should not be acting like Luffy, who should not be acting like Deku.

[(Anonymous)]

Well I guess this just confirms everyone else's opinion then. Bucky is a war veteran whose suffered the loss of his limb. Would be fully under the effect of PTSD after being held and abused by the opposition.
You can write a modern coffeeshop AU surrounding those features easily. Otherwise you can take his interests and beliefs in the first movie (where there is a plenty) and use his character before the war.

I cringed at the idea at the idea the OP might have mistaken bad RP as fact, but this just takes the cake.
Cause yeah. Being completely ignorant towards a character does tend to have the effect of them not having much of a presence.