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⌈ Secret Post #6309 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I understand giving them a moment to be vulnerable and what not, because some of my faves are so bad at letting themselves be taken care of, but then there's what always ends up happening where a canonically badass character gets woobied to the point of being emotionally 12 and... it's fucking terrible. Like this character wouldn't be able to do their job or exist if they were actually like this.

Sometimes I genuinely don't think a lot of fandom knows how to write adult characters on any level.

[(Anonymous)]

I was definitely guilty of that as a teen... and maybe even into my early 20s, lol. I hope I'm better about it now.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd wager a guess that most of us did that as a teen. I also used to write my faves as thinky veiled self inserts. I didn't realize I was doing that at the time, but I totally was. I think its pretty normal as a teen and a new writer.

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AYRT.

I get teens doing it because everything does feel very dramatic as a teen, I remember thinking every hurt I suffered was the worst y'know? So that bleeding over into writing checks out(never mind being a teen writer meant I was still learning, thus writing mistakes abound). But I've known plenty of adult writers who wrote completely capable and competent adult characters with the emotional stability of a 12 year old. Maybe it's a catharsis thing I don't know really, but I do know that I hate it every time it happens.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I know exactly what you're talking about. The only thing I can figure is it is (or similar to) a kink. There is this one author that just loves to make Steve Rogers into a crying child by the end of all their fic. It was bizarre. At first I thought they were just young but then it turns out they were a married woman with grown children? (Mentioned in aithors notes.) So I guess she just has a kink for turning strong characters into helpless children. More power to her, I guess.

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AYRT.

Yeah it's why I do think it's a kink, or at least an emotionally cathartic thing for some people which is fair enough, but absolutely not my jam. It's just really irritating when it gets into the fandom headcanons and this unrecognisable, useless, and frankly boring character has taken the place of the one I liked. Drives me mad.

[(Anonymous)]

Completely agreed. When I see those characterizations popping up more and more I consider it the death nell of a fandom.

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AYRT.

You're right on the money there anon, when it becomes most of the fic that's when I leave. There's nothing for me there anymore, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gawd this reminds me of a fave of mine who's canonically 21. Popular author headcanons her as "over 25" because she thinks the character is "too mature" to be 21, and yet...writes her like she's a moody 15-year-old rather than an adult. It's bizarre, but I think it'd be less bizarre if the author hadn't gone around opining about the character's maturity level.

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AYRT.

Oh wow, yeah that's wild. 21 is still young for sure, but they're adults, they've even had a few years of being an adult like they're either in uni/further education or have a job. I'm not gonna say that every 21 year old in the pinnacle of maturity, but on average the dumb shit they'll do won't be the same as a 15 year old's dumb shit, and their emotional regulation levels will be different.

You can still write a character as being naive in certain respects at 21 depending on their childhood imo, but writing them like an average moody teen is bizarre.