Carjacking: muse edition
So there's a person I noticed last year coming over into fandom from FF.net - I thought, okay, they're just here to have fun and enjoy the fandom. I'll skim past their fic since I'm not a fan of their style (euphemism for 'totally OOC and veers often into Mary Sue/Gary Stu-ville').
But then they picked up a muse from that canon, and started playing them off my canon muse. The problem? They weren't playing the muse. They were just using that muse to say their own opinions on the characters in the canon. um isn't that what meta posts are for
So they start threading with me and I realize this is going on quite early, though at the time I couldn't put words to why they were so OOC. But it wasn't until a thread this week that it dawned on me that they were just hijacking this character that they liked so they themselves could interact with canon muses. Specifically the one I was playing. Does this even qualify as making the muse a Mary Sue/Gary Stu, or is there some other term for this that I can't brain up right now?
Needless to say, I dropped out of the game that we happened to be in together at the time, and while I try not to be an asshole and reply a little to their comments (our only interaction now happens occasionally on SWS, since I think they got the memo and stopped commenting to posts in my muse's personal LJ), I can't bring myself to give more than one or two responses because it's so painful.
How do you leave concrit for someone when it's not the muse, it's them?
/rends garments
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suggested tags: amirite, buy a clue, characterization fail, doing it wrong, fail
But then they picked up a muse from that canon, and started playing them off my canon muse. The problem? They weren't playing the muse. They were just using that muse to say their own opinions on the characters in the canon. um isn't that what meta posts are for
So they start threading with me and I realize this is going on quite early, though at the time I couldn't put words to why they were so OOC. But it wasn't until a thread this week that it dawned on me that they were just hijacking this character that they liked so they themselves could interact with canon muses. Specifically the one I was playing. Does this even qualify as making the muse a Mary Sue/Gary Stu, or is there some other term for this that I can't brain up right now?
Needless to say, I dropped out of the game that we happened to be in together at the time, and while I try not to be an asshole and reply a little to their comments (our only interaction now happens occasionally on SWS, since I think they got the memo and stopped commenting to posts in my muse's personal LJ), I can't bring myself to give more than one or two responses because it's so painful.
How do you leave concrit for someone when it's not the muse, it's them?
/rends garments
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suggested tags: amirite, buy a clue, characterization fail, doing it wrong, fail