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mahoni, top 10 fics (of mine) on AO3, by hit count:
( only mildly surprising )
( previous days )
7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Writing Ron definitely made me like him more. I think that if I met him he'd be someone I liked but would never seek out or be close to, and coming off GoF I really wasn't sure that he'd been a good friend for Harry. (I know that others see that situation as being the reverse and that's fine! I'm not interested in debating my feelings about Harry Potter canon; that subject is closed.) But writing him in EWFS made me figure out what I did like about him and gave me an affection for him and his situation that I brought with me back to canon.
I think I'm still trying to work my way around Spock. Not that I dislike him, but it's hard for me to find a way into him or in some ways Nyota.
As for reading other people's fics, probably? But I suck at remembering specific examples. I don't know that I have super fixed ideas about characters coming out of canon--they're more like electron clouds, where they have a general area but could be anyplace within that area. I think that's just what people are like. If a story is well written I'll go with it, most of the time. This is why I make such a bad canon-whore. I'm far too flexible.
First, from
mahoni, top 10 fics (of mine) on AO3, by hit count:( only mildly surprising )
( previous days )
7 – Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Writing Ron definitely made me like him more. I think that if I met him he'd be someone I liked but would never seek out or be close to, and coming off GoF I really wasn't sure that he'd been a good friend for Harry. (I know that others see that situation as being the reverse and that's fine! I'm not interested in debating my feelings about Harry Potter canon; that subject is closed.) But writing him in EWFS made me figure out what I did like about him and gave me an affection for him and his situation that I brought with me back to canon.
I think I'm still trying to work my way around Spock. Not that I dislike him, but it's hard for me to find a way into him or in some ways Nyota.
As for reading other people's fics, probably? But I suck at remembering specific examples. I don't know that I have super fixed ideas about characters coming out of canon--they're more like electron clouds, where they have a general area but could be anyplace within that area. I think that's just what people are like. If a story is well written I'll go with it, most of the time. This is why I make such a bad canon-whore. I'm far too flexible.
