Subject: Re: Um...
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Posted on: 2013-06-12 18:23:00 UTC

I think in fanfic that it tends to be much easier to find a character enjoyable, if you don't know the canon that well. In my case, I don't know the canon very well at all for X-Men. I've read the character summaries for various ones that I am interested in, like Gambit. I know the bare bones of "what", but I don't know very well the "heart" of the character.

I read and enjoyed things written in that fandom that I have no doubt would make people that have read all the comics whip out their mission writing hats. And many other things that would probably make those who hold the canon dear to their hearts would find rather wrong.

Many times I think that the positive comments on stories that are basically well-written, but completely violate canon come from people that either don't know canon or just don't care. (Also think a lot of fanon gets created this way, like Denethor or Thranduil being physically abusive, which I've seen quite a lot. People that don't know the canon that well getting their info from other people that don't know it or don't care about it.)

I can think of at least one story that I wrote a mission on, because all the characters were OOC, even the physical properties of the setting were all wrong. Judged through the lens of the canon, the story was horrendously awful. But I could see that if the author had decided to call it a world of her own creation and disassociate it from the canon she was defiling, that it would probably be considered a very good story.

I don't know if this makes sense or not.

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