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

CINDERELLA | RARITY

[destinedforrock]

Fandom may be entering the impression that Cinderella was a human damsel of some walk of life - either a tailor to explain her receiving a song about tailoring in an Echo, some sort of ambiguously Victorian aristocrat, or a princess, which would explain her name - if not why on earth she'd have been reincarnated as a horse! Perhaps a few later Echoes will explain that.

As such, she is often portrayed either anthropomorphized, as a human, or simply comically performing humanlike behaviors; for example, attempting to hold a fork to eat a piece of cake (as of recently at least a couple fanart pieces of her have been captioned "Let them eat cake") or pouring a tea kettle with her teeth and/or sitting at a table and wearing a fancy dress with or without a tiara.

She's normally regarded as either a pompous comic relief, a sarcastic if not condescending bystander (often as a counterpart to Arthur in a comic duo), or an ingénue with a sparkling-eyed interest in learning about human-ness ("I wanna know about these strangers like me~e!") in fan fiction.

She is occasionally vaguely shipped with Julien, as he is such a very princely man; or Arthur, this most normally in "humanized" form - there's a cute picture of him carrying her gijinka form bridal-style out of a bus.

Re: CINDERELLA | RARITY

[amberhearted]

that last bit is actually kinda cute

[destinedforrock]

I repeat that I am evidently not good enough at simulating odd-fandom hideousness for this meme.

[espigeonage]

Aww. XD

[destinedforrock]

While I am therefore unsure if I am quite getting the point if images are indeed sufficiently cute then I s'pose there's something in it. XD

[espigeonage]

I think it's fine!

This ship has a lot of gallant muzzle-kissing and Julien doesn't... ride her unless he's injured and she has to try and get him to safety. Possibly he paints her hooves at some point, because that's not detrimental to health at all. |D

Re: CINDERELLA | RARITY

[butterfly_kindnesses]

One wonders, if Sarah and Cinderella start getting Echoes that remind them of each other, what will the fandom conclude?

(I am, perhaps, not very good at this meme.)

[destinedforrock]

I'd say that all depends on at what point both are at in their Echoes overall~ Possible scenarios include:
- Sarah was a druid or some sort of nature magician or spirit, and Cinderella was her familiar of some kind.
- Sarah was a druid or some sort of nature magician or spirit, Cinderella was a human woman transformed into a pony, the two partnered up because Sarah having an affinity for animals could most inconspicuously communicate with her, and reincarnation has brought them back together to reattain their true forms.
- They were sisters in some wooded fantasy village and both of them started magically shapeshifting.
- Many others I'm sure.

Annnd you could probably do it a load better than I am!

[butterfly_kindnesses]

Interesting; I was expecting you'd tie into the high-class!Cinderella theory and propose that Sarah, with her simpler name and deferential demeanor, was some manner of lady-in-waiting or other servant.

Annnd maybe. Though the above is literally the only thing I've come up with so far for this. It seems to me like some kind of mental gymnastics or yoga - I can see how one'd get into those positions, but my brain isn't flexible enough to manage it without help.