Long discussion here.
Also, because I've finally gotten around to friending more people recently, I'm pointing out this here.
This was between Sister (yes, she is very much in the fandom and no, I'm not saying who she is) and I over Skype. Some of it was interrupted by her going to sleep. I'm only going to put what I said once it got going, but it started with her debating who to put as Oracle in a Organization-as-Birds of Prey thing she's going to write. I said maybe DiZ, she said she didn't like him, and it went on from there. Her favorite Organization member is Vexen. Leading up:
Her: But I don't like him either...Tho as Ansem with the 'prentices, it would work. Hmmm.
kaos_sparrow: And? Vexen isn't really on of my favorite characters. I only like him when people mischaracterize him, which honestly, almost everyone does. I know both of us make our sporking nobodies OOC to make it funny. In what I've seen of Vexen in the game, he's creepy and kind of pathetic. He's also not brave. But that doesn't mean I deny he's the "science guy" in favor of other characters I like better. It is possible to not like someone and still write them well. I do love your Vexen, because when you write him he isn't the same as in the game. We write the Nobodies OOC so that we *can* write them. Larxene is usually the most IC because we characterize her as what she is. For most of the rest of them, we add more human traits that don't actually belong to them but make them something other than "the villain". And we try to make them as close as possible, but there's no way we're going to write them perfectly as compared to the game. Because it would not work. To take a page from language arts classes, we like characters because we relate to them. We have to add some human characteristics, and if we do it well we start believing that our interpretations are true.
That will be all.
This was between Sister (yes, she is very much in the fandom and no, I'm not saying who she is) and I over Skype. Some of it was interrupted by her going to sleep. I'm only going to put what I said once it got going, but it started with her debating who to put as Oracle in a Organization-as-Birds of Prey thing she's going to write. I said maybe DiZ, she said she didn't like him, and it went on from there. Her favorite Organization member is Vexen. Leading up:
Her: But I don't like him either...Tho as Ansem with the 'prentices, it would work. Hmmm.
kaos_sparrow: And? Vexen isn't really on of my favorite characters. I only like him when people mischaracterize him, which honestly, almost everyone does. I know both of us make our sporking nobodies OOC to make it funny. In what I've seen of Vexen in the game, he's creepy and kind of pathetic. He's also not brave. But that doesn't mean I deny he's the "science guy" in favor of other characters I like better. It is possible to not like someone and still write them well. I do love your Vexen, because when you write him he isn't the same as in the game. We write the Nobodies OOC so that we *can* write them. Larxene is usually the most IC because we characterize her as what she is. For most of the rest of them, we add more human traits that don't actually belong to them but make them something other than "the villain". And we try to make them as close as possible, but there's no way we're going to write them perfectly as compared to the game. Because it would not work. To take a page from language arts classes, we like characters because we relate to them. We have to add some human characteristics, and if we do it well we start believing that our interpretations are true.
That will be all.