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@candyriot_ @SmuggieBop An that's fine. A author can change or keep their characters how ever they want unless they make a promise they have no need to change their character and story. You also seem to be ignoring how toxic the fan fiction community can be. I don't exactly who you are talking about but
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb Because it is entirely okay for the author to care for their characters and for them to have them grow or change how they want. Not to bend the knee to media and twitter and change something because someone demanded a change to their characters.
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb So no I don't believe every "good" author should view their characters as a tool and I don't think that every author shouldn't use or not use a self insert character. The most important thing is that a audience learns to draw that line and separate reality from fiction.
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb The cowboy bebop LA was trash in my eyes but it has like 50 something audience score that means that at least roughly half of the viewers gave it good scores. That can obviously be changed because not everyone leaves ratings. I mean I didn't so plenty of others didn't.
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb They don't have a bigger purpose or are actually flat and unappealing to everyone else. There is a reason shows like flap jack exist. There is a audience for it and just because I don't like it or understand doesn't mean it isn't good in someone's eyes. In more recent news-
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb So saying all self inserts are bad is just a shallow way to think. Yeah there are a lot of bad inserts but if you let that taint your way of thinking then you won't be able to see or experience what they truly wanted you too. Just because they are flat to you doesn't mean that-
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb Another example I would give of "self insert" being good is the Matrix. It may not be about trans people anymore but originally it was about the trans experience. Both creators are trans and at the time hadn't come out. They wanted to portray their experience. The matrix was that
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb I just disagree. Bad self inserts are horrible and hurt the content. Such as with the new DC comics like "I'm not Starfire" that is a bad self insert but not all are bad. It's why you have movies and books that directly tell someone's experience and story and are still good.
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb This will be my final thing sorry for spamming the reply or whateves but my point is that you can treat a character like it is a living breathing being it's when someone can't draw that line between reality and fiction and can't disconnect from the fantasy that its dangerous
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb An that's kinda where the paradox falls though. Authors clearly want you to care and treat characters as if they are real and feel real emotions about them but they are fake and you shouldn't care about them or get worked up over something fake but again the author wants us to.
@SmuggieBop @elisabomb Not all characters are love letters or passion projects and not even most would be but there is a distinction between a character like that and just a tool. This is obviously only my opinion but a tool is something you use while a project is something you care about.
@elisabomb That being said it's when a fandom takes it to far and starts to treat them like living physical beings that it becomes a problem. Not all characters are just narrative tools to move a story along but some are to get readers attached to that character and keep them invested.
@elisabomb It's more so a paradox as far as I see it. I feel like very rarely do authors or story tellers not want you to relate to a character or at the very least grow attached to them. Even series that kill characters off make sure you can relate to them and become attached to them.