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

Haruka [ Minamoto ]

[hoennmaihime]

Haruka is one of, if not the, most controversial character on the show. But I'll get to that in a moment - first I just want to say that she's constantly characterized as an extreme tsundere/yandere. She's a complete and total dick to everyone (except Luke) for absolutely no reason whatsoever. They don't have to piss her off or anything, she's clearly just cray. Oh, and it's obvious she'd go full-on yan for Luke - the way she shot that bat about to maul his face was totally foreshadowing.

Anyhow: Luke/Haruka is totally fandom's Hannigram. By which I mean a truly worrying amount of fans look at it and see true, flaw-free, lovey-dovey, made-for-each-other ~wub~.

They are completely and utterly shocked when he ruins her life because what do you mean he's a bad person; what do you mean she's fucked up; WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST

(Any psychological abuse, no matter how hardcore, is just interpreted as ~chemistry~. 'Luka' is their cutesy ship name.)

Competing ships are Kotetsu/Haruka and Emmanuel/Haruka. Haruka is basically fandom's go-to girl when it comes to ships with age gaps.

Also, tumblr likes to argue about Haruka's privilege levels all the time because she's ~POC~ but she has light brown hair and blue eyes............???? And there is a shitstorm when it's revealed she was bullied in Japan for looking white because nobody can decide if that's racist or reverse-racist or what.

The fact that she's kind of racist is a massive elephant in the room, but people love to talk about how her classism makes them uncomfy. Her 'aggressiveness' in general causes a lot of (unsure)ing. The common consensus is that Haruka should be made "safer" because rn her behaviour strikes too close to home for too many people, you guys




And some people are convinced she's going to end up with Banagher because hey, they ~bicker~ and guys and girls are never just friends on television.

Re: Haruka [ Minamoto ]

[happybirthdaytoyou]

Speaking of giant age gaps... Eugene/Haruka. Usually by fans who are all EVIL EUGENE. They want him to be the cake-baking Hannibal Lecter to her Clarice.

[hoennmaihime]

oh no that makes perfect sense

and it adds to the hannibal theme she's starting to have going here