Fanfiction and POV

[silverwhistle]

I received a fanfiction review last night that took me a bit aback. I don't mind if someone simply doesn't like my writing style, or points out a genuine weak spot. But this writer seemed to be castigating me for the morality of the characters. I've encountered this once before, when I wrote an OFC narrator who was (to say the least) a prickly

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[syntinen_laulu]

Perhaps also the apparent presumption in films and novels for the young that the main characters must be people with whom the viewer/reader "can identify"?

Can you give us a link to the fic and the review?

[silverwhistle]

Perhaps also the apparent presumption in films and novels for the young that the main characters must be people with whom the viewer/reader "can identify"?

Yes! I did wonder about that.
I don't think she gets the humour of the story, either.

The character is a former prostitute-turned-penitent, who is now in back the world again (and would like to make up for lost time!). She's a bright girl, but uneducated, with a very crude and simplistic understanding of the whole sin-repentance-absolution lark.

She's less angry with the man who wanted to seduce her daughter than she is with her daughter for not taking advantage of him for material security. (As far as she's concerned, clerical concubinage is a shrewd career-move.) It's also complicated by the fact she's attracted to him herself.
Last Year's Snows: An Education Sentimentale. The review is the latest one, for Chapter 10, The Virgin & the Harlot. I did PM the writer, pointing out that the chapter title is significant (we're dealing with an ex-whore, who believes that, if sinning

[silverwhistle]

Another point I made when I replied to her is that a 16-year-old is fully an adult in the Middle Ages.