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

[elfstoned]

it becomes fandom headcanon: "yeah they're totally banging"

[testsonseashells]

oh god people write dramatic breakup fanfics where mordin discovers that aaron's selling weed and goes "Violation of medical ethics!"

[elfstoned]

omfg

and aaron has to come and beg mordin's forgiveness

he did what he had to do to keep the clinic afloat, he's not proud of it, he kept it as separate from the clinic itself as he could...!



(also whenever one of them is shipped with someone else, they're totally played as fuckbuddies

"oh, you fell in love with someone? fantastic, I'll miss the sex but I wish you well")

[testsonseashells]

when mordin is revealed to be asexual, the fandom explodes into debate.

it's a dark time. few survive the shipping wars of [year]

[15minuteslate]

I feel the fandom would be split into two camps: there are the ones who ship him anyway and the ones who cry ace erasure when he is shipped.

[testsonseashells]

then he's revealed to be an alien and no one knows what to think.