[ SECRET POST #2640 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2640 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OOC- Sometimes it's a funny gag.
AU- It's interesting to see how a character would react to a different scenario.

[fenm]

Agreed on the AU thing.

[(Anonymous)]

But always-a-girl AUs are usually OOC, because most characters would not be the same people or in the same situations if they weren't men.

[(Anonymous)]

That's an argument that nobody will ever win. But I can say that I've definitely read always-a-girl AUs that I've felt were completely in character still.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. I'm not a particularly feminine woman so I don't know. I think it depends. Besides, I don't want to start some flamey wanky BS by coming down hard in either direction.

[gondremark]

Yes, let's take a break from the gender wank today, please and thank you :)

[philstar22]

And on the other hand, always-a-girl AUs that rely completely on stereotypes of what women are without taking into consideration the actual character and what they might be as a woman are equally bad (worse in my view).

[(Anonymous)]

IMHO, that's really a nature-versus-nurture kind of thing, and there's no necessarily "right" or "wrong" way to say that Character A would act if they were born and raised the opposite gender, without specifically accounting for external influences like parenting and culture.

[(Anonymous)]

AU - I agree.

OOC - Nah, usually it's just lousy writing.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. A different scenario and/or different influences on their life.

Like one of the characters I write most about. In canon, he was orphaned young. I've done everything from one parent surviving, to his biological parents still dying, but his being raised by his father's ex-wife, to him being orphaned, but he ends up a single father.

As for settings? It's fun seeing how the character reacts when up against different things, from typical high school/college student, to spoiled trust fund kid, to partially-organic being in a post-apocalyptic world.

Canon is fun, and fine, but sometimes putting a new spin on something (as long as the base characteristics of a character stay in place) can breathe new life into something you love.