[ SECRET POST #2640 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2640 ⌋

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

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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

OOC - I can understand altering a character a little if it will make something important to the plot work better, so long as most of the rest of their personality remains reasonably intact. I can under fics that start out at canon and show character development throughout the fic that ends up changing the character greatly. I can usually accept stories that have an adult or elder version of a young character being substantially different if we get an explanation that makes sense for how they got there. I can understand OOC for the sake of parody.

But blatantly writing something wildly OOC for no good reason other that "I just wanted to!"? There I agree with you.

AU - Transplant AUs (highschool, coffee shop, college, etc.) have never been a huge appeal to me. Almost all my fandoms I like because of the storyline and setting, so to remove the characters from that? Loses massive amounts of what I like. I can like individual characters quite a bit, but in the ending they are, in my mind, very connected to the setting. Who is Kíli if you remove him from Middle Earth and make him a modern human? Just some boringly dorky shmuck IMO.

I did mention upthread that I count reincarnation AUs and Modern Retellings as exceptions. I have read one pretty epic story about the quest to reclaim the highly technologically advanced isolationist nation of Erebor - that was a good fic, and incidentally had a sentient AI named Aulë in it. That preserved enough of the story of the Hobbit that I didn't feel it was disconnected from the original.
Reincarnation AUs - well to use my earlier example, Kíli Durin is a boringly dorky shmuck... who wakes up one morning remembering his past life as a dorky young Dwarven Prince and suddenly decides he needs to find Fíli. It's the Kíli I know and love, and is connected back to the canon setting.

There's never a guarantee these will be written well, but I need to feel a connection to canon, one way or another.