And my own personal characterisations are sometimes completely different to someone elses.
In my opinion, that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Sometimes you run across something that upsets you-but that's why there are warnings and such. But I love to come across a fic that make me stop and think about a character or his motivations, especially if it's something I would never have thought to write and it's even better if the characterisation is so dead-on that I ca hear the actor's voice in the written words. It makes my day to read stuff like that.
Can on occasions make them difficult to read.
I've run across those too but for the most part? I think that depends on the reader's personal thoughts on characters.
For example, rape fics. Not my favorite thing to read but I have no problem (in relation to characterisation) with someone writing Angelus or Spike committing rape because such a thing is within the characters. However, I have a huge thing about rape fics where the attackers are Xander, Riley, Lindsey, Gunn or Wesley.
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In my opinion, that's not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Sometimes you run across something that upsets you-but that's why there are warnings and such. But I love to come across a fic that make me stop and think about a character or his motivations, especially if it's something I would never have thought to write and it's even better if the characterisation is so dead-on that I ca hear the actor's voice in the written words. It makes my day to read stuff like that.
Can on occasions make them difficult to read.
I've run across those too but for the most part? I think that depends on the reader's personal thoughts on characters.
For example, rape fics. Not my favorite thing to read but I have no problem (in relation to characterisation) with someone writing Angelus or Spike committing rape because such a thing is within the characters. However, I have a huge thing about rape fics where the attackers are Xander, Riley, Lindsey, Gunn or Wesley.