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mmxwritingcircle[Insert my old adage of this fandom being so high-strung that it stifled creativity and got trapped in the vicious circle of technically good artists only drawing game scene reenactments, canon-compliant fic, or worse: novelizations and how this accelerated the fandom death.]
So, stuff you want to see and stuff you want to burn in hell.
+ Silliness in general. Only in MMX I wish for things like coffeeshop AUS, movie night prompts, and those things that are often considered the bane of megafandoms. But I do cross the line at High School and Contemporary Mundane AUs, I'm trash but not THAT kind of trash.
+ Female character centered stuff that's not fap material to fanboys, even if it's not my focus at the moment. Alia (SCIENCE HERO) is cool! Marino is cool! But please don't use them for clichéd het romance, that, we already have too much.
+ Noblebright and positive what-ifs. Yup, MMX is a dark, dark canon even with the goofy animaloids and the neon-colored robots. But I always saw the darkness as a result of incompetence than just ~~fate~~. Make Dr. Light, Cain or even X marginally intelligent, the world changes for the better. Many of the darker stuff on the later games was pastede on yay, IMO.
- Novelizations. We're in 2015, we have the Wiki, we have Let's Plays. There's no need to masturbate your own ego on a 500k+ saga that basically retreads stuff that everyone knows. This kind of thing is the #1 source of fandom snobbery on the fandom-producing side.
- Grimdark. Bringing the dark stuff that's implied on the games isn't a bad thing by itself, the problem is that it has been done to death. Most of time, pastede on yay and with no nuance whatsoever. It does not look mature, guys — it SCREAMS 13-year-old boy posting at ff.net for the very first time. And in the great majority of cases, it cheapens the actual tragedy for shock value.
- Cataclysm theory, AKA "Zero killed everyone at the end of Classic" and the "gentler" variants like "Light family got murdered": NO. NO. CLOSE YOUR WORD DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW. DELETE YOUR FF.NET/AO3 ACCOUNT. LOWER YOUR HEAD. YOU DID IT WRONG.YOU FUCKED UP. GO LISTEN TO LINKIN PARK, KIDDO.
So, stuff you want to see and stuff you want to burn in hell.
+ Silliness in general. Only in MMX I wish for things like coffeeshop AUS, movie night prompts, and those things that are often considered the bane of megafandoms. But I do cross the line at High School and Contemporary Mundane AUs, I'm trash but not THAT kind of trash.
+ Female character centered stuff that's not fap material to fanboys, even if it's not my focus at the moment. Alia (SCIENCE HERO) is cool! Marino is cool! But please don't use them for clichéd het romance, that, we already have too much.
+ Noblebright and positive what-ifs. Yup, MMX is a dark, dark canon even with the goofy animaloids and the neon-colored robots. But I always saw the darkness as a result of incompetence than just ~~fate~~. Make Dr. Light, Cain or even X marginally intelligent, the world changes for the better. Many of the darker stuff on the later games was pastede on yay, IMO.
- Novelizations. We're in 2015, we have the Wiki, we have Let's Plays. There's no need to masturbate your own ego on a 500k+ saga that basically retreads stuff that everyone knows. This kind of thing is the #1 source of fandom snobbery on the fandom-producing side.
- Grimdark. Bringing the dark stuff that's implied on the games isn't a bad thing by itself, the problem is that it has been done to death. Most of time, pastede on yay and with no nuance whatsoever. It does not look mature, guys — it SCREAMS 13-year-old boy posting at ff.net for the very first time. And in the great majority of cases, it cheapens the actual tragedy for shock value.
- Cataclysm theory, AKA "Zero killed everyone at the end of Classic" and the "gentler" variants like "Light family got murdered": NO. NO. CLOSE YOUR WORD DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW. DELETE YOUR FF.NET/AO3 ACCOUNT. LOWER YOUR HEAD. YOU DID IT WRONG.YOU FUCKED UP. GO LISTEN TO LINKIN PARK, KIDDO.
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Date: 2015-07-28 07:28 pm (UTC)+ On that note, a Pantheon / Olympic themed series of fics and / or fanart would be epic, in my opinion.
+ Moar Vile. And if not him or other villains, maybe shine some light on some of the secondary cast?
+ Lesyay: We got a small handfull of lovely reploid ladies, why not ship them together too?
(or just genderbend the dudes)+ Axl being the creepy tykebomb he is: Maybe more creepy in general too? I love creepy and horror.
And as for the dislikes, I agree with some of those up there, so I'll just add some others that bother the shit out of me when looking for fics, fanart, and ESPECIALLY roleplay:
- Improbable functions: I strongly believe that humans wouldn't want to make these robots too human. Even though by the time Megaman ZX came out, they practically were human, maybe almost in the same category as the cyborgs maybe... But that's then, which is hundreds of years after the X series. The most I can see in terms of human-like physical functions is the sex stuff, eating, sweating to keep cool and such (though the sweating thing is kinda out there too). I don't really think robots would ever need or want gag reflexes, but that's just me.
- Zero being portrayed as a total wimp and/or 100% asshole 24/7. If it's not done to X, it's done to Zero. It's like he can't even do anything on his own. Showing weakness shouldn't mean that Zero has to be portrayed as some emo wimp who can't even hold his sword let along beat a Met in combat. And emotionally? It's always CRAWWWWLLINNGG INNN MYY SKIIINNN, overplaying his deep, dark and edgy personality and. Also, an alternative is turning him into Shadow the Hedgehog. (sorry Shadz, but you're the poster boy of TOTAL. EDGE.)
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Date: 2015-07-28 10:31 pm (UTC)For the human-like stuff, I choose only to put humanlike sex and eating (tertiary power source, not that efficient, it's for pleasure and bonding with humans and tasting poisons depending of the case). Why gag reflexes and refractory periods when their absence makes stuff more fun? 8DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Sweating is borderline to me, I do believe their cooling systems are air-based instead of water-based (reploids breathe for cooling purposes, yeah)
Gotta be honest, I want to see legit femslash instead of genderbent stuff. Femslash X/Zero does not work for me for reasons I can't explain :/ I WANT BERKANA AND ALIA HAVING FUN AT THE DUNGEON FFS
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Date: 2015-07-30 02:48 am (UTC)"Robots don't poop."
That's also why I personally have.....
+hermaphrodism
-robot assholes
Because if the robot does not need to poop, it does not need an anus. And if it wishes for sexual pleasure from being penetrated, why not go for a vagina? But then, that's just my thing, and I respect the panoply of robot sexual expression.
As for fairytales, that reminds me of the start of my last sadly abandoned Nanomango comic where MMX was presented as a fairytale to the MMZX generation... I should maybe adapt that into fic. Imagining the permutations of the stories over time, then the interactions with other fairytale tropes and even the influence of boardgames was interesting. The MMZX fairytale saw MMX though a centuries long lens...
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Date: 2015-07-30 10:37 pm (UTC)I'm 100% OK with alternate genitalia, even if I only write the humanlike stuff. Maybe I can try my hand ai it later - one of my concerns would be how it would look like and that picture of Lumi/Bass/Rock (which for a second I though it was X) was quite educative :)
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Date: 2015-07-31 03:08 am (UTC)