#ignore all his character traits and all the facets of his personality. most ppl reduce him to what they WANT him to be

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Sometimes I want to read my friends' fics bc like... friends! Their fics! But then like... my brain reminds me the only fic I read is dmcl.

#DCB Comments #i have the desire to read my friends' fics but my interests are so strict abt it!!! #i mean there's one other ship i am considering reading fic for but it's not even fe #other than that i don't even read tellius fics bc tbh the only tellius fics i would read #would be shinaff and i and like maybe five other ppl tops even ship it so that's just #not happening out of its lack of existence LOL. sadge. #but like... what i write does not equal what i can read. i only seem to have the drive to actually /read/ dmcl #also one of my biggest issues with tellius fics is similar to the lorenz issue #i don't trust most ppl to correctly characterize shinon. with lorenz ppl don't actually #write him in character most of the time. he's written with clear and intended disdain from almost every writer i've ever seen write him #with shinon i completely do not trust that anyone except like me and five other ppl don't just #ignore all his character traits and all the facets of his personality. most ppl reduce him to what they WANT him to be #and not what he actually is. nobody EVER writes abt his care for children. his generosity toward his friends #how he canonically returned to the GMs and stuck by them regardless of where they went/what they did #how he - having been poor all his life by inference of dialogue - does what he can to stop them from being poor #he could leave at any time with his skills and get work anywhere he wanted. he doesn't bc he grew out of that desire #once he felt he had a place he truly fit in with. nobody writes him as the complex human being he canonically is written as #he's just ''the asshole who doesn't like ike'' and we know what the other part is that i won't get into #or we will be here for another few hours of me debunking ppl's bullshit. but yeah. shinon is basically like #the central reason i do not touch tellius fics with a thousand foot pole. i don't trust ANYONE with him unless i already know you #and that even if you don't like him i can at least trust you'd still write him in character and not just as #the obvious character you only wrote in to bash. even reading dmcl is difficult when i can tell the writer #doesn't give a shit abt writing lorenz in character and just uses him to be annoying and shit #aside dmcl being a hyperfixation yeah... that's some reasons why i do not read other fics #not that that is related directly to my friends' writing - that's bc my brain lightbulb only turns on with dmcl content #also why i have not read gautier content. i think it's changing now but like in general #the vast majority of the fandom i do NOT trust to actually understand miklan's character/story/motivations #bc he's basically just tossed aside as the pure evil villain who uwu hurt sylvain #i think myself and some other miklan lovers have helped fix that a bit with hopes' help #but i've loved miklan since before hopes came out so that's why i never bothered trusting gautier content either