Thoughts on the OCC-Assertion

[llybian]

By and large, fanfiction authors try to keep characters well… in character (there has to be a less dumb-sounding way to say that). Sometimes their efforts fail, sometimes they end up basing this “in-character-ness” on other fanfiction which causes character decay, sometimes they don’t even care, sometimes they’re twelve-year-old fangirls who just

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[llybian]

Oh, I don't know. I have my share of ego problems. My initial reaction to criticism is not always so graceful. My opinion is that writers have a... well, a right to defend their work if only to themselves. The right to stand tall and say "I don't care what you say" say "The ghost scene stays. It's the best I've ever written" :P

Right. It's not like we're saying he's an idiot in the bad way! That's just who he is!

Yeah, that was my main joke with Lina. But some people at least still thought she wouldn't sit by and narrate the battle... even though she did so in the novels and that's what I was thinking of. *shrug*

Someone should totally put a scary music curse on Xellos. It would make it very hard for him to get work done.

Love him or hate him, he's interesting.

You know, what you said about tendencies is really something I've always felt about Xellos and Filia. Filia *is* fundamentally good, but she has a truckload of bad tendencies, and Xellos is fundamentally evil, with a truckload of good tendencies. In that way, they're not so different.

And that's why Xellos fits the affably evil trope to a t.

Thanks! It should be fun having them appear, especially since they showed up in the original too.

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[harlock999]

The advantage/disadvantage of Xellos is that the anime itself changes his personality. His character is noticeably different in TRY than it is in Next. Any accusations of OOC-ness can therefore be answered by "I'm writing him as in (insert one) TRY/Next".

And Revolution/Evolution-R splits the difference. His general attitude is closer to TRY, but actions speak louder than words. On at least three different occasions he intervenes in a way that will preserve the Slayers gang when they're in trouble. And he seems remarkably happy when he kills Zumma -- could it be that he is secretly fond of Lina and her friends, and takes offense at attempts to harm them?

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[llybian]

True. For consistancies sake I like to think their are extenuating circumstances to his mood-shifts by series like the fact that he'd already been found out by the time TRY rolled around. And I think the anime has its own 'keeping Xellos in character' deal. Because they float back in forth between the interpretation they've used and then sometimes want to be closer to the novels.

I haven't seen all of Revo/Evo-R yet, but I have definitely heard that. *I* would say that he is fond of Lina's gang, or at least that he would consider it a waste if they died... at least now (and it's always now). I also have another explanation that's no surprise for me to think...

Filia's influence.