Re: model!verse, Donna could grow a spine and the fuck up. Epiphany!
It would make your story arc take longer to deal with his various family issues, but it would be worth it.
A "reason" to be mean is fine-if everyone wrote the same way, the stories would all be...wait. They DO. They ARE! Fuck! *flounces*
Naw, I don't mind the occasional OOC nastiness-or niceness, heh-but it's when it becomes a fanon cliche and stereotype that it bugs me. Like...oh, let's write an abused!Jensen fic...and that means you have religious!freak!Alan beating or raping him and wimpy!enabler!slightly less religious freak!Donna, allowing it. Almost every time.
Whereas the Padaleckis all get to blow sunshine and puppies out their collective asses just because *Jared* does, again, almost every time.
But if there's a reason for it that is part of the story, gets dealt with, and helps the characters grow and change (for better or worse), well-at least it's for a plot reason, not just laziness.
Like all those people in HP who write Draco as this brilliant student who's a whiz at Potions, when it's not been established in canon (at least as far as HBP, which was the last I read) that this is so. ALL Gryffindors have poor impulse control, bad tempers, and are self-righteous, just because some of the Weasleys are. It's not just SPN. :(
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Date: 2008-04-08 03:40 am (UTC)It would make your story arc take longer to deal with his various family issues, but it would be worth it.
A "reason" to be mean is fine-if everyone wrote the same way, the stories would all be...wait. They DO. They ARE! Fuck! *flounces*
Naw, I don't mind the occasional OOC nastiness-or niceness, heh-but it's when it becomes a fanon cliche and stereotype that it bugs me. Like...oh, let's write an abused!Jensen fic...and that means you have religious!freak!Alan beating or raping him and wimpy!enabler!slightly less religious freak!Donna, allowing it. Almost every time.
Whereas the Padaleckis all get to blow sunshine and puppies out their collective asses just because *Jared* does, again, almost every time.
But if there's a reason for it that is part of the story, gets dealt with, and helps the characters grow and change (for better or worse), well-at least it's for a plot reason, not just laziness.
Like all those people in HP who write Draco as this brilliant student who's a whiz at Potions, when it's not been established in canon (at least as far as HBP, which was the last I read) that this is so. ALL Gryffindors have poor impulse control, bad tempers, and are self-righteous, just because some of the Weasleys are. It's not just SPN. :(