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

[shiromadoushi]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaannnggst~ Often conveniently forgetting that his grandparents exist, the fandom often writes Bakura being any combination of homeless or having inherited great wealth when his parents died, but always always, he's alone and brooding. In some fic, he may as well be Batman with how often the fact that his parents are dead is mentioned! Brooding, serious and very punk, fandom Bakura often goes for long walks in the rain and loudly claims he doesn't need anyone but Diabound.

Which of course doesn't stop him from being shipped with everyone he's ever talked to. There's a very creepy section of fanfic devoted to him and Lyall, another only slightly less creepy section with him and Toushirou. Defrosting the ice queen tropes fill another section with him and Banagher. He becomes the predator in fics with Anthony and Kurt, dragging them down in to the seedy underworld of whatever illegal thing the "fictress" has decided Bakura is involved with. Underage drinking, drugs, thuggery, anything to show that Bakura's a tough guy who takes what he wants!