Characterisation

[lady_windermere]

Was having a chat about characterisation last night to a couple of people, and realised that I don't always use my own idea's on characterisation when writing. In some areas I am quite willing to allow a lot of OOC when I am reading as well. Especially with Angelus and William.

I write Daddy!Kink, and Baby Boy because my friends enjoy it, and use what I consider to be the fandom characterisation for that kink. So even if my Angelus and William the Bloody do not really fit into that, I will quite happily write it anyway, using the general characterisation.

I wondered if anyone else felt the same?

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Comments

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I fully admit to being a characterisation fundamentalist.

I read and write fic to get more stories about the characters I love and I find weak characterisation a big turn off. I personally don't see the point of writing characters OOC, otherwise you might as well be writing original fiction.

Of course, how canon characterisation is interpreted and implemented by different people (even within the show) will vary considerably!

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True, everyone has views on characters, and their strengths and weaknesses with someone would disagree with. One reason I didn't want to do any character studies. I would rather explore that in Gen fic.

I find that with non-canon Shipper fic, then to get the two characters together, something has to give in the characterisation. Not to say that it should be totally OOC. To explore these characters having a relationship, then it means that you have to work around something. Which could be intertaining.