[ SECRET POST #5036 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5036 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's the worst or most nonsensical case of OOC-ness you've ever seen in a fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I recently had to stop reading a fic that was otherwise outstanding because of this. It was a Harry Potter fic, which did this to Harry. In canon, as we know, he is a sassy lil snarker who is not intimidated by anything up to and including voldemort and whose favorite hobby is talking back to/disobeying authority figures. In this fic, he is for some reason written as a quivering, perpetually terrified anxiety machine who's constantly having panic attacks so bad that he actually wets the bed repeatedly. It's definitely not portrayed in light of a sexual thing and the author clearly knows their canon, so I have no f'n idea why they're doing this. Everyone else is in character.

Re: What's the worst or most nonsensical case of OOC-ness you've ever seen in a fic?

[(Anonymous)]

RA

That is bizarre, because Harry's got a whole lotta attitude in the books lol.

Did the author not warn for it, or tag it [characteristic]!Harry?

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

no! they didn't warn for anything! they just sort of gradually increased the anxiety-disordered-ness level of Harry over the course of the story until it was so bad that I couldn't take it anymore and un-bookmarked the fic vowing not to torture myself anymore. Everything else about the fic was AMAZING (it was a crossover with Good Omens where Harry runs away and gets adopted by Crowley and Aziraphale and the crossover stuff was handled really really well.) Now I think about it, I think they were actually trying to make it be that Harry was emotionally disturbed as a result of living with the Dursleys? and that he had basically Vietnam-veteran-levels of PTSD from it? But there was ZERO warning or explanation that that was what they were doing, and it had NOTHING to do with the actual plot. it was just tossed in there like some kind of bizarre side detail.

Re: What's the worst or most nonsensical case of OOC-ness you've ever seen in a fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I noped out of apparently a completely different GO/HP xover where Crowley adopted Harry (and Sirius because of legal shenanigans?)

Out of the blue and with no warning, Sirius started having weird daddy-kink-related sexual tension with Crowley and I was done.

Re: What's the worst or most nonsensical case of OOC-ness you've ever seen in a fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Crowley/Sirius is theoretically a pretty decent thing, why did they have to make it weird??