+ More gen. I'm as guilty as anyone - maybe even more so. But I feel like a lot of fics are now just 'smash two characters together, add a kink, plop the result on Ao3'. Worlds Unite has a lot of problems, but it's whet my desire to see just straight up Adventure Heroes stuff happening. The problem is that gen underperforms - at least when I write it. :( And gen IS hard - there's a lot of moving parts in a good gen fic, and it's hard to get people to care about it if it isn't Gay Luv X/Zero #9,903,833.
+ Rare pairs. I do my part, but I'm always hungry for more and more and more. I want to see how other characters bounce off, change and manipulate the core trio. It's all relationships with me.
+ Porn that brings something to to the table. Anyone can write porn. Anyone can slam two characters together and yell "NOW KISS!" Make it something that changes the world. Or enlightens us to a new facet of the character. Or highlights a hidden aspect of the character. Something meaty and raw and where we really feel the place they're going to as something real, or raw, or terrible, or wonderful. Make me feel something.
- Infantilizing Axl. Stop it right now. Axl's very first on screen appearance is a murder. Stop treating him like he's 12. He can be a junior Hunter and still be competent, fear-inspiring, vicious, or even a cold blooded killer. We've already seen he has the capacity to kill in cold blood when he has to. He shot Sigma in the fucking face. Stop making him some kind of baby. I see this way too much and it drives me nuts. Axl has emotional needs and clinginess - that's not the same as being childish. He also, lest we forget, murdered his entire previous 'family' without batting an obvious eye - only Red caused him to hesitate.
And let's not even get into the whole 'Axl perceives Zero as a replacement for Red' thing because DUH YES OF COURSE HE DOES?
- Cataclysm. Second. Drop that shit. Zero has enough psychological burdens and trauma. You wanting him to go against his core character and murder everyone just so you can bridge the gap between two series that actually weren't meant to directly connect? (protip: Wily and Light are in X as CAMEO APPEARANCES, it does NOT make them and Classic a consistent timeline, and neither does the end of the NONCANON arcade game just because Zero is in it argh)
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Date: 2015-07-27 03:42 am (UTC)+ More gen. I'm as guilty as anyone - maybe even more so. But I feel like a lot of fics are now just 'smash two characters together, add a kink, plop the result on Ao3'. Worlds Unite has a lot of problems, but it's whet my desire to see just straight up Adventure Heroes stuff happening. The problem is that gen underperforms - at least when I write it. :( And gen IS hard - there's a lot of moving parts in a good gen fic, and it's hard to get people to care about it if it isn't Gay Luv X/Zero #9,903,833.
+ Rare pairs. I do my part, but I'm always hungry for more and more and more. I want to see how other characters bounce off, change and manipulate the core trio. It's all relationships with me.
+ Porn that brings something to to the table. Anyone can write porn. Anyone can slam two characters together and yell "NOW KISS!" Make it something that changes the world. Or enlightens us to a new facet of the character. Or highlights a hidden aspect of the character. Something meaty and raw and where we really feel the place they're going to as something real, or raw, or terrible, or wonderful. Make me feel something.
- Infantilizing Axl. Stop it right now. Axl's very first on screen appearance is a murder. Stop treating him like he's 12. He can be a junior Hunter and still be competent, fear-inspiring, vicious, or even a cold blooded killer. We've already seen he has the capacity to kill in cold blood when he has to. He shot Sigma in the fucking face. Stop making him some kind of baby. I see this way too much and it drives me nuts. Axl has emotional needs and clinginess - that's not the same as being childish. He also, lest we forget, murdered his entire previous 'family' without batting an obvious eye - only Red caused him to hesitate.
And let's not even get into the whole 'Axl perceives Zero as a replacement for Red' thing because DUH YES OF COURSE HE DOES?
- Cataclysm. Second. Drop that shit. Zero has enough psychological burdens and trauma. You wanting him to go against his core character and murder everyone just so you can bridge the gap between two series that actually weren't meant to directly connect? (protip: Wily and Light are in X as CAMEO APPEARANCES, it does NOT make them and Classic a consistent timeline, and neither does the end of the NONCANON arcade game just because Zero is in it argh)