Stuff you want to see (or not) in fanworks

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[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.

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-bodily functions. THIRDED. I live by one very powerful maxim in my worldbuilding:
"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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"Robots don't poop" - I should have been read this before creating the comm, it's a great title 8D

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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My porn is dangerous now, hohoho. ~and educational~ Yeah just hit me up for "both parts" diagrams if you need them. Fulla headcanons over here. I think that the world is large enough for all of us to smut however we'd like.