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

[struckout]

As one of the characters on from the very beginning but who also hasn't been very proactive since then, Kallie has a very mixed reception from the audience. The theory that she's literally a fallen angel is so common as to be generally accepted as truth... though at the same time there's the question whether the writers are that predictable or if they actually have something else planned for her. There is an abundance of textual eye-rolling over the belief that the woman is going to ~OUT OF NOWHERE~ eventually save the day in some spectacular fashion... or attempt to destroy it.

The high-and-mightiest of the fans love to spend hours and hours writing out dissertations about what her memory Echoes and/or hair color mean in relation to everyone else's. The other, mostly male-oriented crowd just want a changing scene.

Fandom naturally takes that her canon lack of love interests and chilly personality definitely means that she A) has a dark past, preferably with secretly abusive parents, B) just needs someone to show her the meaning of lovings. Many ship her ferociously with the blond man from some of her returned memories named Snow- mostly because he seems troubled as well and probably not willing to take her crap.

That said, there is a rapidly-growing fanbase of Kallie/not-cat!Regina shippers too, mostly in the fanart category leaning towards showing off their... gifts. Those who don't like her do ship her with cats. Not the cat characters, mind you, but just cats in general, if it means she'll go away and be lonely forever. The feathers she's capable of summoning come in useful for this.

Fanfic-wise she's typically painfully tsundere, cast as a villain/spy/etc., the aforementioned woobie/waifu, or thrown into a relationship with one of the other characters just to be broken up in the name of her partner finding true love with whoever is the author-insert at the moment. Despite her social awkwardness, she is always the mean popular girl in high school AUs.