Fandom has seen Julien's Echoes and thinks that he is absolutely right: they write his preincarnation as a rather inhuman, somewhat creepily focused/cold angel called the Apostle of the Violet Rose. The Apostle has done something bad in the past - fallen, possibly - and caused many people to die, so he began atoning by trying to save them, particularly humans. Sometimes from soul-absorbing eldrich abomination things. He's kind of James Bond, too, with the... spy thing, but not every writer really uses that.
Julien himself... is very inconsistent, with different authors focusing on different aspects. Sometimes he's the authorial stand-in and sort of wide-eyed and youthful, and generally willing to let other characters get away with whatever they want to do. Sometimes he's a huge flirt and has a lot of pick up lines to unload or gallantry to display. Sometimes, especially in shipping with men, he embodies the trope of the Keet, all energy and fun and chatter. Fandom in that case tends to ignore how he's been building muscle, have him be soft and skinny, and emphasize that he's short. He'll kiss anyone eagerly and then blush and become shy, and he's the uke wherever he goes, whoever he goes with.
No matter the version, when he gives people nicknames they are cutesy and not very imaginative. He may append Japanese honorifics to every name, or use gratuitous French at every chance, or both. Fandom's Julien is kind of helpless especially last version, but since the mines they've picked up on how he cares about Strider friends... so he gets dramatically teary and desperate if something happens. No matter which version.
Also he's a huge target for bondage-themed art and fics. Subs to everyone. There's some conflict between what his preincarnation must have been like and how his last version's written, and this shows up as everything from becoming more dominant after a lot of sex in certain situations to split personality shenanigans.
He doesn't have much of a job and his family is usually absent (though there are angsty fics where his rich dad abuses him and he needs rescue), so he spends most of his time being klutzy in places like the Clinic. The person he and the Apostle are shipped with most is Strider, but fics can be found with just about anyone.
Julien Sakazaki
Julien himself... is very inconsistent, with different authors focusing on different aspects. Sometimes he's the authorial stand-in and sort of wide-eyed and youthful, and generally willing to let other characters get away with whatever they want to do. Sometimes he's a huge flirt and has a lot of pick up lines to unload or gallantry to display. Sometimes, especially in shipping with men, he embodies the trope of the Keet, all energy and fun and chatter. Fandom in that case tends to ignore how he's been building muscle, have him be soft and skinny, and emphasize that he's short. He'll kiss anyone eagerly and then blush and become shy, and he's the uke wherever he goes, whoever he goes with.
No matter the version, when he gives people nicknames they are cutesy and not very imaginative. He may append Japanese honorifics to every name, or use gratuitous French at every chance, or both. Fandom's Julien is kind of helpless especially last version, but since the mines they've picked up on how he cares about
Striderfriends... so he gets dramatically teary and desperate if something happens. No matter which version.Also he's a huge target for bondage-themed art and fics. Subs to everyone. There's some conflict between what his preincarnation must have been like and how his last version's written, and this shows up as everything from becoming more dominant
after a lot of sexin certain situations to split personality shenanigans.He doesn't have much of a job and his family is usually absent (though there are angsty fics where his rich dad abuses him and he needs rescue), so he spends most of his time being klutzy in places like the Clinic. The person he and the Apostle are shipped with most is Strider, but fics can be found with just about anyone.