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[pez]

1. Characterisation flaw =/= personality flaw. The former is bad, the latter is fine. For example, if a character loses his memory, there will be problem with his personality, how he reacts to people and events because he hasn't got the memory or experience to support him. But it's not okay to be lazy and gloss things over with the "amnesia" excuse. People will still react to things. People always react to things, be the reaction physical or mental. It's fine not to describe the reactions (I'm not a fan of stating everything) as long as you can somehow get the feeling across or successfully tickle the readers' brains into filling it in for you.

2. We see in characters what we want to see. And once we've seen what we wanted to see, then they are no longer the same characters as shown in canon. Everything the characters do take on second meanings whether the creators intended the second meanings or not. After deciding Niou is a certain type of person, the second time I read the manga, he's morphed, if only slightly, into the person I think he is. And so I might rave to other people how awesome he is and think it's totally supported by canon, but those people might look at me and think I'm weird and reading far too much between the lines.


Link from lelola: The Not Rape Epidemic, something everyone should read.

Hah, programmed the central heating to come on before I come back from work. MUCH BETTER.

Comments

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I really look at my Rikkai characterisations and go ...huh, wow. Actually, I've probably done this at you before. SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW I ENDED UP HERE. XD The effect is so much more marked with characters like that which are really just vague ideas than with characters from some other series, although I'm aware that it basically always happens. XD

*reads essay* ...yeah. that.

unrelated

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

LIZ, I'M FIGHTING A MONSTER WITH TENTACLES IN THE GAME RIGHT NOW AND IT JUST ATTACKED RUSH AND DAVID'S UNION WITH A TECHNIQUE CALLED "IMPALE". DDDDDX

Re: unrelated

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

IT HAD TO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER.

Anyway, back to non-unrelated

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

With characters that have far less background or coverage in canon (say, Niou, rather than Echizen) it's far easier to see what we want to see, making interpretations as we see fit, that's what I think. More flexibility.

And canon characterisation in PoT is really lacking anyway, for characters who are not Seigaku or Hyoutei.

Re: Anyway, back to non-unrelated

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yes, that! To be fair, it's substantially more than half the fun. 8)

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

That link is really strange to read, because in english, we were just reading an article that was basically 'everyone cries rape now, and it is BS'

(we spent the entire time tearing it apart...)