THE FANDOM FLANDERIZATION MEME

[elfstoned]

We all know how fandom flanderizes characters, but what if Save the Earth were a television show?

How would fandom get it wrong?



HOW IT WORKS:
Post a comment with your character journal explaining generally what the twisted and horrible fanon version of your character is. What less significant personality traits do they fixate on? How do the thirteen-year-olds on fanfiction.net write them? Who are they shipped with ad nauseum? What are they like in Omegaverse?

OPTIONAL: Reply IC to others' comments as your own flanderized fanon character, or feel free to have the real version express horror and disgust (or vicious amusement).

Have fun!!

Comments

ANTHONY JANVIER | ANTHONY

[scramasax]

Anthony would be a bit to the StE fandom what 5 was to the 9 fandom and what James is to the Silent Hill fandom simultaneously.

In more words than that he would essentially be a dog, and subject in many loose super-deformed doodles (in most of which his expression is some variant of "o _ o") either cringing and possibly trembling, sadly line-facing, and fawning over if not physically clinging to other characters, also liable to be depicted overeagerly rushing into things possibly while gleefully shouting "I'LL PROTECT YOU" and running directly into hazards with or without flailing his sword about at random, having "oh-what-does-this-button-do" moments, "heh heh... heh ;_;"-ing in slightly awkward or gone-afoul situations, etc. With a bit of fluff of him being patted on the head, etc. He is often drawn even taller than he is to emphasize how gangly he is or far shorter - normally determined by who else he's drawn with.

On the whole he is either exaggerated into a bit of a comedically-beleaguered and panicky "spaz" or painfully reserved and brooding with a stutter whenever he does speak. Serious inclinations manifest with respectively either "I-I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THIS" or quiet, disapproving, tragic sta-a-a-ares. Subject of a bit of hurt-comfort fic. His French heritage is occasionally played up, and he understands utterly no pop culture references but is quite the fanboy over medieval history. Obligatorily subject to numerous zombie jokes and employment in pieces of black humor and occasionally employed as a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant.

There exists at least one piece of fanart out there of him much shorter and in semi-chibi trailing after a wolf-eared and -tailed Mr. Lyall with a wagging canine tail of his own and another of him peering wide-eyed through the door of the LSR Clinic, as well as one of him uncertainly "8D"-ing captioned "DID I DO GOOD?"

His name would be listed second in every ship in which he is included, most of them with male characters.

Fandom is still not explicitly convinced that he wasn't some sort of apprentice wizard in his past life. He may have interpreted his visions himself as depicting him as a messenger to Charlemagne, but hey - perhaps Charlemagne was a wizard, too. Specifically a necromancer. Or opposed to necromancers and ran afoul of that.

[drama8om8]

I'd say I was sorry but I'd be lying

[scramasax]

Ohh kiss me son of god I emitted noises akin to a hyena-chicken being smothered with a pillow and I actually enjoyed it greatly.