I don't like these fanfiction because the author ultimately changes the characters' past and everything that made them who they are. I'm a sole believer that the only thing separating one person from another is their experience (okay, their biological predisposition also plays a part, but these predispositions will mostly occur when people are living in an environment where it allows these predispositions to develop), thus, by changing a characters' experience, or what has happened in CANON, you are in effect making a completely different person, where the only thing that is recognizable is the characters names. Thus, you might as well be writing original fiction.
When I read fanfiction I want to read about the CANON characters involved in adventures with ALL of the CANON experience and memories that made them who they are. I don't want to read fanfiction where the only thing that is similar to my loved characters is the way they look and their names. For example, I like reading post-series fanfiction, which I know is classified as AU by some, these fanfiction I like because the characters are still themselves with all the memories of what has happened to them in the past (i.e. during the series), they act accordingly to what happened to them, or at least act in a way that is similar to ways similar to past actions.
In conclusion, no, this is not an attack on people who write this type of AU or people who like reading them; it is just a statement on my own personal taste. Okies, I think that's enough ranting on my part.
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Yeah, if there is Major Traumatic Experience that explains it all, you'd figure that the creator would have mentioned it as important to the conception of the character. Well, all of my favorite characters who angst have something already to angst about. >:D So I don't need to invent some incident.
Exactly. Putting the Suikoden characters in highschool only works if you're writing parody or deliberate badfic. For some reason this is an insanely popular genre, if only because so many of the writers themselves are thinking about what will happen when they go to HS next year. :P
To sum up, perceptions of behaviours, personalities, and identity is all related to your culture background. All of this is done subconsciously. This also works for object perception. Have a unique (colour, shape, whatever) in a pool with landscapes, etc. participants from EA backgound will provide much better information about the overall picture, but not much about the unique item, while participants from Western bg will provide more detail to the unique fish, and less info on the surrounding. Most of the experts bellieve that EA people seem to perceive things more holistically.
Gee, that was really lond winded, sorry ^^;;;
Nod to the Major Traumatic Experience. Seriously, why would you want to heap on some mundane trauma such as abuse, when the manga/anime provide you long, drawn out, painful angst that's so much more interesting.
HS fanfics, I like the parodies, they are always a laugh, but the serious ones... *sigh* I remember those. *laughs* Yes, the authors must be terrified of moving into the big, bad world o HS *snickers*