Shadowfire626

“Listen, the fact is that any writer can write whatever the hell they what for any god damned reason they want no matter how silly, nonsensical, unfounded, or unexplained it is. That does not mean that audiences will always agree, or that they should; as authors we enter into an implicit agreement to take them on a journey which supports itself, that is the nature of a story. With original works there's already a heavy burden to make your characters seem real, but with fanfiction you have a double burden because you not only have write your characters 'realistically' you also have to write them closely enough to their original depiction that your audience believes they are in fact the same character. Sometimes Option C rubs people the wrong way for a character because it stretches their preconceptions of who that character is and how they respond to the world, so Authors have to be careful to build justifications for differences between their depictions of characters and 'canon' into the narrative.” - ACuttlefish, spacebattles