On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Peter L. Ward wrote:

I tend to disagree here.  Who's to judge whether an original character is more 
or less interesting than the source characters?  This is a very subjective 
matter, more suited to the individual reader's tastes.  What may be a less 
interesting character to one person may be an extremely interesting one to 
another.

I dunnow.  Of course, it's *possible* for author-created stories to be 
every bit as interesting as the real characters.  However, what attracts 
many of the people to the fanfic list is that it's *anime* fic, that the 
characters being used are characters we've gotten interested in through 
watching the anime.  If the focus of the story is character development 
of an author-developed character, it's hard to be interested.  It's not 
that the author is doing a poor job...but with a limited amount of time, 
if I want to read character development of original characters, there's a 
*lot* of books by well-established authors which I'd rather read.  
Nothing personal, and I do enjoy fanfics, but there's some pretty stiff 
competition out there.  Similarly, if Kafka or somebody had written about 
"Ranma 1/2", I'd never have joined the list ^_^.

IMHO,

Jeff

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