Subject: Re: [FFML] OOC: What's the appeal? (was Re: [FFML] Slayers 1/2- That's it!)
From: rsalva1@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU
Date: 8/21/1997, 1:45 AM
To: Ryan Mathews
CC: fanfic@fanfic.com



People are different.  I myself don't mind reading ooc fics.  It's very 
refreshing from the same topic that has been hammered hundreds of times.  

I believe the only one who has the right to hoist the ooc flag here is 
Takahashi.  Heck, she might decide to have Ranma an epiphany.  

The question is who has the right to judge?

-Ramon

On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Ryan Mathews wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but I can't see why *anyone* would want to read 
an out-of-character fanfic.  As someone else pointed out, there's 
more to a character than just a name.  With the obvious exception of 
parody, if the author keeps the name and throws out the qualities 
that go with it, what's the appeal of the story?

Mind you, I can see two exceptions off the bat:

Parody
Alternate universes, where events have shaped a character in a 
different way.  Even here, though, the appeal is that, inside, the 
character is still the same person.

I just can't see the appeal of a story where the characters are all 
unrecognizable.  (But then DC is doing just that with their Tangent 
Comics.  Go figure...)

------RM