#despite fucking adoring roleswap as a concept. maybe i just disagree with most akeshus about a lot of things i dunno. its hard when im
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ok i love akeshu roleswap and all this new content abt it is Great but i wanna vent bc. a lot of the time when i see swap aus they don't quite gel with how i think it should be and i go :/
like idk for example i think in a swap au goro's outfit as the pt leader should be black. bc like, the pt's are morally gray/on the wrong side of the law. his outfit is white in canon bc his idea of true morality is too perfect and idealistic. too childish. he hasn't reconciled that vision of justice with reality so he ends up with these two extremes. but in a swap au, he should be able to reconcile these extremes bc he no longer has the same hangups as he does in canon. his sense of justice is more singular instead of an oppositional contradictory dichotomy.
maybe the problem is i want the swap au to be too direct. too like, exact parallel to the game. but that's kind of what appeals me about it? that akira and goro are so similar that under different circumstances their roles could swap and the story would stay the same. but people change things too much and kinda undermine what appeals to me about it. or on the other hand, they keep too much from canon. goro shouldn't be as jaded as he is in canon in a roleswap. akira shouldn't be as open. their circumstances have shaped them into different people than canon and the au should reflect that.
#sera posts#not going to tag this bc i don't want to upset people but yeah#i tried to use vague examples or less important ones to not be mean/call out anyone specific#i reblog a lot of these aus bc i like seeing my bois and they look Interesting but yeah i just have some hangups with how people interpret#them in a swap au i guess. all the problems with fandom akeshu feel amplified this way i think. this is why i didn't fully enjoy antithesis#despite fucking adoring roleswap as a concept. maybe i just disagree with most akeshus about a lot of things i dunno. its hard when im#not on twitter so can't see what the consensus in fandom really is (all the worst most popular takes seem to come from there)#the only Amazing swap au content i have consumed is Synthesis tbh. that one nailed it on the head while everything else. hit or miss
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