bonding with askerian

[kaigou]

...Because then there's the reviews that just make you go *stompstompstomp*

Your story started very good and interested but you made it each time more and more complicated. AND the result is not GW anymore even if they are in, no it is some strange story. What every you wanted to reach with you story I dont think you are going in good direction. You have very good talent for writing but here it is not GW story anymore. Come on, do something here. Dont get mad.

Yes, this would be the point of an AU, girly. Ah, another poor fan who honestly believes safe-houses and unrequited luuuurve make up the majority of the storyline. Because obviously war, despair, philosophy, and mecha (can't forget the mecha!) aren't GW.

Then again, Tyr (the GWA archivist) mentioned to me the other day that her most common complaint about my stories is that they're never IC; in her opinion, it's all ofic with GW names slapped on. I told her, I don't take it personally anymore. Now, when she tells me that, I'm happy, because it means the rest of the fandom will read it as being completely IC. It's when she tells me the story's IC (like Trace, which she really liked) that I get worried.

It's like reverse archivist psychology, or something.

*stomps off*

Comments

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Sorry I ignored you this morning. I was...uh, actually rather hungover.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

It could be argued that all of us who extrapolate the characters and write them post-series (but in canon) are OOC, since we're writing how we think they would develop, five, ten, fifteen years later. The question is whether or not it's believable that any of them would end up where we say they have, given the experiences we've attributed to their history post-series or post-EW. I think it's believable that Relena would end up like she is in Tet, but she's nothing like the original Relena.

Then again, if anyone ever said to me, "you're just like you were at 15, still!" I'd probably deck them.

[sarolynne.livejournal.com]

That is true. But I still think there's a range of IC/OOC for extrapolation, though. I mean, we do try to logical extensions. It's like writing AUs. Obviously characters can't be precisely the same, because they haven't had to same experiences, but there's still a level of reasonability.

And, crap, at 15...? I think that was at the peak of my quiet/glaring phase.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

And, crap, at 15...? I think that was at the peak of my quiet/glaring phase.

Well, that part hasn't changed. It's the 'crush on every person in ten feet' that's chilled. *cringes*