Personality

What to Do and What Not to Do in Fanfictions

This chapter could tie back into the Mary Sues/Gary Stus.

Personality is incredibly important for it relies within characterization. I bring this up because someone commented about it.

There is a difference between describing a character and personality/characterization.

However, personality can be totally murdered by Mary Sues. 

When writing personality, please refrain the character from having a constant "victim" personality where they act like nothing is their fault and they could never do anything wrong. 

There are so many different ways you can go with personality and they are so extremely ruined by some people.

Especially after tragic events. 

Have you ever heard of PTSD?

Post-traumatic stress disorder. 

The lack of this ever being found in an angst fanfic is astounding. 

Being human, it is impossible to get over , death, etc. in a blink of an eye without consquences. like that s with the mind.

You never and I mean NEVER be the same again. Cuddling with a significant other won't help either. 

I just... /headwalls repeatedly/

I really can't describe the ideal personality for there is no such thing. 

However, I can tell you what is best to avoid.

Avoid the perfect attitude, the -playboy personality, everyone-loves-me personality and anything along those lines. 

 

Personality is so incredibly important, but it's not something you can just throw out there. It has to be slowly revealed through the fanfic or else it would be meaningless to continue the fanfic. 

I could continue on about this topic for forever but I will stop here.

-Rue

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the_wylde #1
Chapter 3: Hmm, this is interesting and I guess it differs from one to another. I personally like author's notes a lot. I truly feel like most of the time, authors don't really want us to hold them in a high pedestal. Instead, they might just want to be friendly with the people who read their stories. It's a 'fans-to-fans' place and I personally feel so good getting to know the fellow fans. I hope that makes sense lol. And also, I might be weird but I love it when authors use the background and poster feature to set the mood of the story.
FullmetalTitan #2
Chapter 3: I think it's okay if users want to add a little color to their fics, but nothing too bright or blinding -__- Thank God they included a Enable Reader mode thing where you can disable brightly colored text ^^ Really comes in handy. I think soft colors should be fine though, like a soft shades of red or something...that's what I sometimes use :3

As for the pictures I'm against using them. I like describing them, so readers can visualize better rather then staring at an image.
immaninja13 #3
Chapter 8: Though plot is important, so is characterization. Yes, a good story can be written without describing the characters much, but lack of characterization can bore me easily.
TheChuglyOne #4
Chapter 5: Personally, I dislike when people write something like [Jongup Oneshot] C.R.E.A.M
We'll know from the tags, you don't need to tell us!
TheChuglyOne #5
Chapter 1: Do you know what is awful? When people don't know when to use the comma instead of the ellipsis. I've seen fics that would go something like:
(I can't think of anything, so I'll just use an example with a name)
"I love you ... Jongdae"
Klutzy #6
Chapter 4: I understand the punctuation one though cause that really is annoying.
Kumikocchi #7
I have so many things I would rant about XD Interesting to see yours
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