#like it's cool you wrote an AU fanfic just stop denying it LOL

[monstersinthecosmos]

I know I said this yesterday but I want to repeat myself: Daniel *being older* isn't the issue on an aesthetic level, and some of the people who aren't bothered by it are treating it like it's an aesthetic choice. Daniel *surviving adulthood* is the issue. Daniel *not ruining his life over vampires* is the issue. Daniel *being a respectable older gentleman with a career* is an issue. Daniel is not meant to be a recovered, productive member of society LMAO. This implies some universe where he either doesn't meet Armand when he's supposed to (and I don't care about what was said at the SDCC panel bc it's irrelevant LOL) or he went through that experience and recovered. And he wasn't so traumatized and heartbroken that he had an actual life. Hate that for him tbh!!! I don't care what Daniel *looks like* and neither will Armand. And even in canon (not that canon is relevant to the show 😅😅) Armand chose Daniel because of the interview. He could still do that. But literally none of the characters in this adaptation are canon so far, and the team keeps framing it like "oh it's not a big deal we just changed x y z" without caring that the things they are changing (age, race, time periods) are actually HUGE deals in this universe!!! And as character writers I wish they would've respected that, because all of these elements are huge when it comes to dictating who a character is, how they navigate the world, how people treat them, how much time they've had to grow, etc. Like I am not expecting anything on this show to resemble canon at this point, it is what it is, but I wish they'd stop acting like they're being true to the characters. And like, Daniel being old isn't an aesthetic issue, it makes him a c o m p l e t e l y different person who has had difference experiences, will have a different sense of value for his own life, will have different resources for coping with the inevitable drama. I'm still gonna ship it though LOLLLLLL but people gotta stop pretending it's not a big deal bc when I tell you i am fucking devastated