3325: A flower tale - Scarlett Marie Black, Elizabeth "Eli" Annabell Potter

[pottersues]

Don't forget about the fanfic contest. Today's link of the day deals with character bashing. It is a forum thread.

Since this is the month of October I decided that the Flashback Sue's will deal with the ones featured on Halloween. This one is from 2003 and had a Native American Sue.

TITLE: A flower tale
PERPETRATOR: Severus's Daughter
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Comments

[ext_2118339]

How on Earth did you make it to chapter four? :P Aaaaaaargh

[yemi_hikari]

I suggest looking up the term "whump". I tend to "whump" on Hinamori Momo from Bleach because of her character flaws and one writer called me out for character bashing.

It depends on how you write it. Turning Ron into a playboy after a break up with Hermione can be character bashing if he womanizes every single woman he is with and thinks they should be under his thumb, particularly Hermione. It's whump if you have him still be friends with Hermione and him realize that's the kind of life style he really wants to live, albiet Hermione does agree.

It's also character bashing if Ron rapes Hermione because she wouldn't "be" with him only to have her go off to whatever guy you want to pair her with to be healed by the other guy, only to have Ron try to murder everybody.

It's about being fair to the character. Ron and Momo from Bleach... both are characters with the kind of flaws where they're not necessarily going to get a good draw every single time.

[indigoneutrino]

I get what you're saying, but is that how the term "whump" can be applied? Isn't it usually where a writer puts a character through physical/psychological/emotional hell so they can do H/C that's very heavy on the H? That's what I always understood it to be. What you're describing sounds like simply writing the character fairly.

[yemi_hikari]

You're actually correct.

I had someone who couldn't fathom the difference between character bashing and not character bashing when it came to a character they liked. They claimed that said character shouldn't be treated as if she was childish and mature because she was just confused. Whump's the closest antonym one can get for character bashing.

[ext_2118339]

Thanks guys! :)

I feel a bit better. I'm really not trying to be unfair to Ron. But it sometimes smarts a little when people accuse me of doing so. I don't think I've really done anything in my fics except explore actual facets of Ron's character in reaction to events that are clear psychological triggers for him.