Subject: Badfic about goodfic?
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Posted on: 2011-08-18 14:27:00 UTC

If someone wrote badfic about a fanwork, would the original fanwork be treated as its own canon?

Say, for example, if someone wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality badfic in which their Sue was the most rationalist and scientific student in all of Hogwarts and got Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres all steamed up. Harry Potter-Evans-Verres is almost nothing like the canonical Harry Potter - should the extent of the OOC be judged on how MoR puts it, or how canon puts it?

Or, more broadly, if someone writes badfic about a goodfic with OCs. Are the OCs from the original fanfic taken as "canons" for the purposes of the mission?

This also applies to things like video game mods.

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