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

COLETTE BRUNEL

[angelskills]

The fandom is viciously torn on Colette. Half think she's precious and adorable and that she can do no wrong while the other half despises her for being a helpless bimbo who only bogs down the rest of the show. Tumblr is often rift with teenage girls screaming at each other how Colette is realistic versus how awful and generic. Both sides take her at face value, though, and classify her as an endlessly optimistic bubbly air-heard who is way too out of touch with reality to understand situations when in reality Colette actually subverts those tropes by forcing herself to take a positive outlook and staying quiet when she realizes something is amiss rather than taking direct action. She also trips every three minutes, stutters, blushes, and is constantly surrounded by a barrage of shoujo sparkles.

Also, the fandom doesn't realize that Colette lies. A lot. Fandom writes her as blurting out everything that crosses her mind and being fooled by everyone else in the game. She is dumb and simple to the fandom. Basically generic plastic cute girl with no depth.

There is a fic for every pairing with Colette possible because she's often used as a self-insert for the writer, or the generic "cute girl" they want shipped with someone. However, there's a large section of the fandom that worships Colette/Tamara and some who also ship Colette/Regina because Hot Girls with Cute Girl. All of that is fanservice despite both ships actually having potential to be deep and awesome. Colette always wears pure white panties and a bra with a little pink bow on it. She's also stutters a lot and is very nervous about even kissing, and will never make the first move.

However, there's also another side of the shipping fandom that features her as a hardcore yet still cute dominatrix who spanks boys a lot. No boy in the game is safe from her succubus domming ways. If the shipping isn't featuring her she will sometimes make a cameo appearance in fics encouraging the two main characters to get together and playing The Best Friend Matchmaker. Then she vanishes for the rest of the fic, never to be mentioned again. The tumblr fandom has screaming matches about Colette and Julien versus Colette and Banagher. They get very vicious. Even the ones who hate Colette. Shipping wars are intense. Oh, and Aeron/Colette is also really popular because Incest.

The fans have no fucking idea what's going on with Colette and her echoes. Many suspect that she's actually Supergirl with brain trauma.

FEEL FREE TO THROW ME YOUR IDEAS TOO GUYS

[acequeen]

Colette is the cutest pimp ever, let me tell you.

[espigeonage]

Most of the Colette/Julien fics are pure sugarfluff, even when bondage is involved. Especially when bondage is involved! The obvious harmless friendliness of both makes fluff a natural choice, and it's not uncommon to pull in a third party just for the fun of it/because it would be cute or hot or whatever.

There is a darkfic masquerading as one of those where the third party is made to realize that they're both secretly evil and have people in cells in the basement/dead. It gets so many outraged negative reviews.