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[intertexts-moving]

OK TO BE FAIR. irt to that modern aus post. ok preliminary reminder that i am not one to yuck someone elses yum & truly i do understand the appeal of everything is kind & nothing hurts aus etc, like, i get it. but. unfortunately i am always thinking. anyway.

this one. tbf. one of my favorite thought exercises IS examining the relationships & dynamics btwn characters & world & thinking about how u would communicate that in a world without the fundamental elements that tie them together in the text itself. the root cause of most of the miserable flanderization into "what if they all went to highschool together..." or "oh my god.. what if [x] was a barista & [x] was a college student & [xyz]" tropes: they take the way a character works & transplant that into a completely different setting w/ no regard to how the change in setting would affect the guy. cases in point of stories where character is deeply rooted in worldbuilding itself: trigun, tian ya ke, COUNTER/weight, six of crows for all its faults. (counterpoint: stories where characters are not fundamentally intertwined with the worldbuilding: tma, homestuck, critrole, etc.)

but dear god is it fun to look at a piece of media & go ohh okay. how would i translate this. how is their trauma shaped, like, objectively-- they're human, right? what would it have to be, in a normal, depowered universe, to achieve this level of effect. how do they interact with the world or the narrative. WHY do they do it Like That. how is that done mechanically. how do you reverse engineer that. how would lack or presence of [x] impact how they work. etc. & some of my favorite fics ever are about that. !