I'm here to tell you a story that all started when I found a little placed called
khfanficrants. :]
A few weeks ago, my friend and I started a very random, plottless RP written on paper at school because... We couldn't last through the school day without thinking about KH2. Seriously.
It was RoxasAxel from what she was writing, because she's a fan of that, and I was mostly writing AxelDemyx and DemyxZexion. How does that work? I really don't now. We weren't really trying to make it very good or IC, just getting the smut and ponderings of KH2 out of our systems so we could function through the day. We're thirteen and fourteen, so our interpertations of the characters were pretty flat.
During the Fall Break, someone borrowed it (it was 18 college-ruled papers, front and back! D:), so I forgot about it for a while. I read the stuff on
khfanficrants daily, taking in characterization explinations, ranting about badfics, rules for AUs and romance fics, and anything else.
Lo, on a Monday after the break, the RP was given to me with the command, "Write fast, I want it soon!" (We have a posse of groupies that gathered and wait to read what we write after I wrote the first smut, apparently we aren't the only hormone-crazed teens. =__= Its like being a crack dealer!)
I read through the story.
And could not write on it. It was so far out of my (new) comfort level of ICness I just couldn't. If anyone was reading it, they'd be like, "What?!" when they got to my part, because I was writing them how I was seeing them now instead of characterizing them as before.
The lesson: What you are ranting about is changing things! Don't think its hopeless, you will convert one stupid fanbrat at a time to the good side unmanipulated by teenage opinions! Keep up the good work. :D