#those mordreds all have the right to exist just like sk's does and just like i do

[echthr0s]

now for a really out-there take: the concept of writing a character “OOC” is kind of alien to me, and I want to say “well except in the case of obvious examples like...” but then I stop because I can’t think of an obvious exception. people are fucking weird. I’m constantly surprising people by liking things they don’t expect me to like. your law-abiding grade-school teacher with the turtlenecks and long skirts probably used to be in a biker gang. your super-aloof Edgy McEdge friend probably watches The Notebook every weekend and cries. the most basic-seeming bland polo-shirt-wearing office-job-having person you know probably likes to record videos of themselves jizzing on anime figurines whilst wearing a Sailor Moon outfit.

the thing is that I understand why characters in [most] stories are less contradictory and confusing and dissonant than actual people are... but I don’t think it’s wrong when someone decides to subvert their tropes and write them differently. I think that’s a good purpose for transformative works, in fact, and it strikes me as backwards when people are like “you can’t write [x] character this way because [x] character only behaves [y] way in canon and that means they’d never do [z]”. like, you’re absolutely allowed to believe that and not read any fics where the character does [z], but I don’t get why it’s something the writer needs to fix

I guess I’m just all for characters being written less like characters and more like people, with all the weirdness that that entails

#singularity.txt #if i read a dark tower fic and there was a mordred in it who liked to play the hurdy-gurdy on a porch while watching the world move on #that'd be cool. or maybe there's a mordred who learns how to tap dance and refuses to eat people #or maybe there's a mordred who takes one look at the tower and goes ''wow no i just want to play animal crossing bye'' #or maybe-- i mean you get the point #those mordreds all have the right to exist just like sk's does and just like i do #okay now i actually AM going to bed. i need to charge my executive functions