Nov 17, 2009 20:04
I was having a blind rage moment here, and I'm actually regretting posting this...
Dear fanauthor,
Now, I really enjoy your fic(akuroku, btw), as you write well, and the fic isn't terribly cliché, and the way you portray the relationship gives me the fuzzies. The only thing that annoys the hell out of me is the million English lit. references that not everyone would get, especcially me, as a Dutch person. But I was actually planning to ask you if you could consider to explain your references in your author´s note, so that isn´t too much of a problem either.
So in short, you write nice fic.
I was happy to see you had updated your fic, as you don´t do that frequently. But as I read the chapter, I couldn´t help but notice this... weird slant to it, this unusually cutting reference to 385/2 days...
Then I got to your author's note, in which you were mentioning you had trouble writing this chapter. What were you saying again? That it was hard to get back into Roxas' head because Canon!Roxas is bland and boring?
Bland and Boring?
BLAND AND BORING?!
Compared to who? That character you write and call Roxas?
That character of yours, that neurotic bookworm? In this fic of yours, the one with the million lit-references nobody but an English-major would get?
How am I supposed to interpret this?
And you compare him to Canon!Roxas?
Canon!Roxas, who has no clue who he is, but he has this older brother figure that is really nice to him, and tells him they're best friends, which he doesn't quite understand, but it sounds really nice! And he has a female peer, which is also really nice, and she's also best friends with him! And that's awesome!
Canon!Roxas, whose worried about his female friend, because she lost her weapon a while ago, and is constantly disappearing. But Axel says it'll be alright, so it'll be alright!
Canon!Roxas, who had to kill his female friend, and left the organisation of manipulative bastards. And figured that the nice older brother figure had been lying to him, had been manipulating him. Are they even best friends? Nobodies can't feel, so that must be a lie too...
How is this a bland and boring character?
Seriously, you're either masturbating over your version of Roxas, or you are completely missing the whole story behind Days.
If it's the first, you disgust me, if it's the second, you are stupid and pretentious.
Either way, my respect for you is pretty non-existent now.
Tl;Dr: Naiveté != Bland and Boring.
Ps. I can accept that someone's characterisation isn't fully canon, but she just had to jab at Days. And I'm really really fond of Days.
Ps.s. Not a native English speaker, so feel free to educate me if I did something wrong.
Ps.s.s. First rant.
akuroku,
au,
roxas