#I can’t believe I’m revealing my genshin impact addiction to you all. we all have our flaws I suppose /hj

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Oh you reblogged the character ask game, yay!! I'd like to ask numbers 7, 21 and/or 22, and 24 (since you mentioned other fandoms 👀) for Dorothy :)

I just love these ask games, I get so chatty when my interests are brought up & I feel like the only people that ever want to listen are the friends I’ve made here 😂 I’ll reblog any ask game that comes across my dash for a chance to ramble haha!!

7: what’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I feel like our corner is very dedicated to portraying the girls exactly as they would be (sticking very strictly to canon, with the exception of, well. You know. The three of them being married. Which arguably is just barely not canon) & this is something I love so dearly. I’ve been in big fandom spaces in the past & have had to distance myself from favourite characters when their main portrayal happens to be far outside of canon. Dorothy is a very good example of this; she presents far from who she really is on the inside. It kills me on an entirely different level to see characters taken at face value, and to be extended and projected that way. For example, Dorothy presents herself with a very dominating presence, someone who is cold and who likes to be in charge. However!! That is very much not the case. In fact I don’t thing that description fits any of the girls. That’s just not a character type you’re going to get with this show. What I can’t stand is when people don’t pay attention to the media they’re consuming, & even more when it’s on purpose (ignoring canon and key character traits/experiences for the sake of it) - people who choose to pay attention to a version of a character they’ve created in their head. Good for you! Create an OC if you’re going to do that!!! Don’t ruin my favourite characters with your wildly out of character headcanons that you push as canon lmao!! Because it will always lead to others that haven’t actually seen the series they’re from thinking it’s canon & further spreading that agenda. Drives me up the WALL. The lengths some people go to to defend these fabricated versions of characters so far beyond who they really are is nuts!!!!

What I’m trying to say is that I love, love love how much care is put into every portrayal & piece of fan media I’ve seen from this fandom. Oh my goodness - if any characters deserve it it’s these four. Of course we’re only talking about Dorothy here but there’s no specific character from this show that deserves it more than another. (Speaking specifically about Dorothy though, I really adore how carefully her trauma regarding Stanley is handled here, in every aspect. It’s really lovely to see.)

21: if you’re a fic writer & have written for this character, what’s your favourite thing to do when you’re writing for this character? What’s something you don’t like?

I’ll start with something I don’t like; I don’t love writing Dorothy that much 😅 mostly because I relate to her so intensely that I sometimes catch myself straying from her character, or projecting bits & pieces of my own experiences onto her. She can be tricky to write - so I guess it’s not that I don’t like writing her, she’s the tricky. Younger Dorothy especially - lord. She’s real hard not to project onto. Harder scenes mostly, not my favourite. But at the same time so interesting I can’t resist.

At the same time I love writing her. What I love most is writing her to fill in the gaps of her story - that has always been the most interesting thing for me to write. The boring things, random little snippets of her life I guess. Sometimes I’ll jot down a paragraph or two when I’ve got nothing else to do on a train ride home. Don’t get me wrong, I live for the drama that came with her marriage, but ahhh there’s something about thinking of all the thoughts & feelings she must have had as a new mother getting to know her kids - & how she responded to Kate while she was an only child. The change that came with her son nine years later, how that affected Kate too (would Kate have smashed a plate dramatically the way Dorothy did when Phil was born? I think so lol). Anyway, I like the random & boring bits most :)

22: if you’re a fic reader, what’s something you like in fics when it comes to this character? Something you don’t like?

I love seeing Dorothy get to show that happy bubbly side we don’t see very often in canon :’) anytime I’ve read a fic where she gets to be unapologetically happy & a little aloof it brings me an infinite amount of joy. That’s her!!!! That’s the real her!!!! ahhhhhh!!!!! She’s just silly she just wants to have a little laugh!!!! (thinking about how she was canonically the class clown. She just wants to make everyone giggle & maybe get to giggle a little herself 🥲)

I’ve mentioned it already, but … the mischaracterization… please lord spare me (and HER!!!). I can take this no longer I cannot deal. I’m so sick of it - I could count on my hands how many authors I trust to read a new fic about/involving her from - when!!! Will people stop leaning into her safeguard!!!!!!!!! She’s not that way!!!!!! Oh my GOD!!!!

24: what other character from another fandom of yours reminds you of them?

this is an interesting question 👀👀 hmmm … I’ve always been a huge poison Ivy fan, & Ivy from the recent Harley Quinn series reminds me a lot of her now that I think about it. I am also, very unfortunately, violently hyperfixated on the game genshin impact & have been for a good few years now, so naturally I’ll have to assign her a character - I think she & Xianyun have a bit in common for sure!! If even just in mannerisms & general outlooks on life. (Pictures below in the order I mentioned them!)