Subject: I write an OFU...
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Posted on: 2013-07-28 06:19:00 UTC

...and you'd be surprised how cruel we can be. *evil laugh*

But seriously, a lot of canon characters would probably be pleased. Imagine if your life was a canon, and people wrote stories about you and your friends and enemies. Wouldn't you just be against the concept of fanfiction entirely? Well, maybe you wouldn't (I don't know you), but some people would be, and that's how the canons would react. Maybe the course coordinators or some of the minor characters who don't get touched in fanfic wouldn't want fanstudents to give up on writing, but a large portion of the staff might not mind.

However, out of universe, when the PPC and OFUs encounter badfic authors they try to encourage them to improve, not to give up. So an OFU will try to convey that. Although the exchange might go:

Canon character: A student in my class has decided to give up fanfic entirely! Yay! One less badfic writer to deal with!

Course coordinator: Yes, but we believe everyone has the potential to improve, and we're trying to help them do that. Try to teach them that, okay? I know it's hard, but then we'll have more goodfic writers in the long run.

Canon character: Well, okay. That doesn't mean I have to like it, though.

That's my experience, anyway...it really depends on what canon you're talking about. Me, I write for Star Trek, and that continuum was one of the first to get fanfiction and therefore the characters don't want to deal with the growing fanbase of writers, but those in an underappreciated fandom might value every writer they get.

I hope that makes sense...

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