#i dont even like writing fumiya characters myself and i still need to say this

[ikiyou]

Ok, I'm going to disagree, and here's why.

We already have run the gamut of all kinds of fic - whump, porn, and everything in between - to Chuuya (the character) himself. 'Respectful,' 'disrespectful,' you name it. And it is right to do so, because we are fandom creators, and we have the right to create and to tell stories in any way we choose. Nobody may tell us no, and our right is protected (in America) by law.

When you decide a name for your lovechild, that creation is always a character of your own choosing. It is not Fumiya, the actual person. Just as when you write Chuuya, it is not Chuuya, the actual person, nor is it Chuuya, Asagiri's creation. It is your original creation, because you are not Asagiri, and you can only write the character through your interpretation.

We should not say 'think of the children' when what we are doing is purely fictional, as divested from reality as Asagiri's creation is from the real Chuuya.

Furthermore, the real Chuuya does not own the name Fumiya. It is a Japanese name, as equitable for you to use, as for any Japanese person to name their son.

And finally, we have no right to gatekeep, based on our personal morals, or anyone else's. If one chooses not to use the name because it's too sensitive (and many have had no original knowledge of the history in the first place), then that is up to the individual. We should not confuse fandom principles (the right to create freely and wholly without obstruction from others) with individual choices, and we should not attempt to grandstand to others on what they may or may not create.

We might as well be telling others not to write murder or rape or whump or any number of equally horrific things. We cannot single one item out and say, 'This. This is the one thing you cannot write.' That becomes censorship, and censorship grows.

I appreciate that it comes from a (looking at the date of this post) suddenly newfound knowledge of past events, and a personal sadness attributed to those events, as you feel you have a personal connection to a character.

But writing about Fumiya has never been new in BSD. Furthermore, we cannot know the real Chuuya's thoughts on the trend - whether he would be happy cast as a criminal lord in a modern fantasy or whether he would appreciate writers, in most cases, lovingly giving that character back the son he had lost.

guys guys this might sound crazy but maybe we don't name our Chuuya Nakahara lovechild ocs after the real life Chuuya Nakahara's son who died of tuberculosis at 20 months old. maybe we consider being respectful to a man who never fully recovered from his son's death and had a nervous breakdown because of it. I know the whole point of BSD is mixing real life authors and stories into an anime but i don't want to see the name of a dead toddler reused for your Soukoku lovechild OCS on my feed, or anywhere at all. that's extremely disrespectful and just plain insensitive in my opinion. the sufferings of someone who actually lived in real life did not happen in any way for you to used to make your OCS quirky or more connected to Chuuya Nakahara. <3