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attractthecrows · 9 months ago

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i think the main thing that bothers me about fanon families (because i am a picky pedant) is that for the most part, they ignore things like how said families would impact the characters and overall story. like it's one thing to add siblings and other random relations just for flavor, I can't judge there, I do it myself... but you gotta keep in mind how they slot in. who are these people related to? how are they similar? what are the common learned behaviors of the family - because they're there even if said character makes a purposeful break from said family - and how do they manifest? why and where is this person even involved in the story?

like don't get me wrong, this sort of playing around is a lot of fun. but it's fun (to me anyways) because people are so complex and there's so many facets to them, so there's all sorts of ways for their bonds with others to interact and add flavor to the plot.

#it's both funny and sad actually how simple fandoms make characters become and i like adding more complexity #like alyne #margaret and alyne are fancharacters. margaret's the sister of jake torrance. alyne is pellinore warthrops illegitimate daughter #they can add flavor and background and higher stakes to the monstrumologist or they can stand alone #because their story doesn't actually have much to DO with monstrumology except that their relations are monstrumologists #their story is that of a single mom deciding to raise her brilliant scientist daughter in a fishing town on the gulf coast #said brilliant scientist daughter doing what she loves and eventually learning about her father who was also a scientist #but never meeting him for sure because he died a month before she arrived in his hometown #its a story about missed connections and what you do afterwards #it has potential to intersect with the monstrumologist but it's a character study more than anything #of what would happen if someone with pellinore's tendencies grew up without the influence of monstrumology and money #anyway ramble over i was thinking about this in the car #also about how alyne would react to learning her father's name is PELLINORE after the king searching for the questing beast #and her name is ALYNE after king pellinore's daughter he abandoned to die because of his own blindness in his hunt for the beast #you inherited the legacy of the legend but your role in it is to die and make your father more compelling and tragic.#you inherited a yoke meant to be shuffled off in tragedy and pointless death. but your father is dead so the yoke is meaningless

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