#like genuinely straight up genderbent hairo branded as an original character

[oceanwithouthermoon]

okay just to clarify, i really dont have anything against x readers in general or as a concept.. in fact, i enjoy reading them myself sometimes! i would be lying if i said the reason i have all these specific examples isnt because i READ them lmao..

tbh i am personally very obsessed with tdlosk, so i dont enjoy stories that are too ooc, but in all honestly thats just a personal preference and i really dont gaf if people like writing their characters a bit ooc.. i mean, if it goes too far (like forcing the mean bitch label on teruhashi and just being actually misogynistic, or making it seem like saiki hates all his friends so they can make y/n like the "savior" archetype for saiki, or force any character like teru, yume, or even kaido to be a bad person so SAIKI can be the savior for y/n instead) then it can be problematic, but the whole point of fanfiction is, like you said, to be self-indulgent so it doesnt matter if people wanna stray away from canon a little bit..

one of the problems comes when they do things like i said in the og post like make basically a kinsona, but instead of acknowledging that thats what it is, they brand it as their own original character, and most of the time (with the exception being the little sister thing lol) they basically use their y/n as a replacement for that character and ignore their existence as a whole.. the whole "meeting someone like this for the first time-" and then its just ripped off from someone the character already knows is what bothers me about this.. even then, this particular problem isn't necessarily morally wrong, its just stupid and annoying and ever so slightly messed up LMAO

obviously the misogyny (talked about this more in the other notes of this post) and stuff like that is also a huge problem, but like i said it's definitely not exclusive to x readers/x oc stories so.. yea.. lol..

one of my favorite (/sarcastic but not really cuz its like funny idk) things in fandoms is when people make ocs or self inserts or 'x readers' being shipped with characters, but the oc/sona/reader is literally just another character from the source material.. its like youre shipping the characters but didnt want to admit it, so you made a kinsona and branded it as something else..

and its NEVER subtle, actually its super blatant every time and im always shocked when nobody points it out..

i have seen uncountable saiki k x readers where the description is like:

"saiki meets someone whose thoughts he cant read for the first time, and even though he doesnt trust her at first, she keeps proving that she is kind and has good intentions!" you mean nendo? reader is girl nendo?

"this time, he meets a girl whose thoughts honestly match up with her spoken words almost perfectly for the first time!" hairo. youre shipping saiki with girl hairo.

"saiki meets someone whose thoughts are too fast and jumbled to re-" ITS AKECHI, THATS AKECHI, ITS LITERALLY AKECHI.

"saiki meets someone whose just as immune to teruhashi as he is for the first and only tim-" this is hairo again, awe bae you secretly LOVE haisai ?!?

"saiki sees his old childhood friend for the first time in years after an incident caused them to be apart and then they fall in lov-" WHY DID YOU EVEN WRITE THIS AND NOT CALL IT SAIKECHI.

its even funnier when they say its like that characters little sister, but the way they write it is still literally just the character, like their personality, dialogue, even their relationship, is the same..

not all of them fit this exactly, but the ones that take a boy character and turn them into a girl oc to ship them with a boy, it reminds of how in equestria girls they couldnt make applejack and rarity endgame so they gave them boyfriends who looked IDENTICAL to each other.. thats what youre creating, guys, youre creating heterosexual rarijack.