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Post by fazhou on Feb 28, 2006 17:53:17 GMT -5
Just wondering, because some of my reviewers thought that the characters in my fanfic were OOC. At the same time, I've read fanfics where the characters are barely recognizable. Still good reading, but I wouldn't call them "Kim Possible" stories.
In those cases, do you think it's too OOC? What are the "limits" of OOC?
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Feb 28, 2006 17:58:06 GMT -5
That's a very good question. I wouldn't say your fic is OOC at all. I mean, the characters acted the way they would in those situations.
For me, the limits would be like:
*Kim killing somebody
*Ron being a angsty guy
*Fics that protray Kim as a b****
I dunno what else, I'm sure that others will lend their opinion on this.
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Post by drakkenfan on Feb 28, 2006 18:05:36 GMT -5
I've never seen a fic where I considered the characters to be TOO out of character... Ok, well one which had a really disgusting scene of Jim, Tim, and Kim. *pukes*...*repeatedly* Why do people write trash like that?  |
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Feb 28, 2006 18:07:36 GMT -5
I've never seen a fic where I considered the characters to be TOO out of character... Ok, well one which had a really disgusting scene of Jim, Tim, and Kim. *pukes*...*repeatedly* A JIM/KIM/TIM FIC?!  And I thought I was grossed out after reading Zack/Cody fanfiction and Fred/George fanfiction. |
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Post by drakkenfan on Feb 28, 2006 18:21:21 GMT -5
I've never seen a fic where I considered the characters to be TOO out of character... Ok, well one which had a really disgusting scene of Jim, Tim, and Kim. *pukes*...*repeatedly* A JIM/KIM/TIM FIC?! And I thought I was grossed out after reading Zack/Cody fanfiction and Fred/George fanfiction. The only reason why I was reading it was because it started out as a Drakken/Shego fic... but then it became gross. |
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Feb 28, 2006 18:24:22 GMT -5
So what, the writer wanted to write as many people as they could doing it?
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Post by Commander Argus on Feb 28, 2006 18:27:38 GMT -5
The only way to portray characters acting OOC is to write a good, interesting reason why they're doing it.
Then again that's the nature of FanFic. You've got to dig through twenty bits of trash to find one gem.
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Post by drakkenfan on Feb 28, 2006 18:31:56 GMT -5
So what, the writer wanted to write as many people as they could doing it? It was only 5 chapters yet it had Drakken/Shego, Shego/A Room Full of Henchmen, Shego/Kim, and Jim/Tim/Kim - with Shego videotaping. My mind is forever scarred for life. |
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Feb 28, 2006 18:34:14 GMT -5
So what, the writer wanted to write as many people as they could doing it? It was only 5 chapters yet it had Drakken/Shego, Shego/Henchmen, Shego/Kim, and Jim/Tim/Kim - with Shego videotaping. That's horrible. Voyeurism, incest, femmeslash... Okay, I guess I can't talk, because I think I've done that too. *runs away crying* |
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Post by staredcraft on Feb 28, 2006 18:39:03 GMT -5
That's a very good question. I wouldn't say your fic is OOC at all. I mean, the characters acted the way they would in those situations. For me, the limits would be like: *Kim killing somebody I dunno what else, I'm sure that others will lend their opinion on this. Well now, unless it was an ACCIDENT like in my fan fic right? it was circumstances that caused it in that case |
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Post by Ashley Benlove on Feb 28, 2006 18:40:13 GMT -5
No, even if it was accident, it would still be OOC
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Post by Pim Peccable on Feb 28, 2006 19:00:43 GMT -5
It worked in "Unacceptable Sitch".
It's all in the situation. To define how it worked in that story, would spoil majorly.
Heck, even this spoils.
Good writing can make almost anything work. That's the challenge.
Character is paramount when writing.
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Post by zaratan on Feb 28, 2006 19:37:56 GMT -5
That's a very good question. I wouldn't say your fic is OOC at all. I mean, the characters acted the way they would in those situations. For me, the limits would be like: *Kim killing somebody *Ron being a angsty guy *Fics that protray Kim as a b**** I dunno what else, I'm sure that others will lend their opinion on this. And even those wouldn't be OOC is you gave just cause for them, some events that affected the characters so profoundly as to produce those kinds of reactions. That would take a lot of work, or a lot of back story, to be able to pull those ones off. You mean that story at AFF.net, don't you? |
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Post by drakkenfan on Feb 28, 2006 20:36:23 GMT -5
You mean that story at AFF.net, don't you? Yeah... the new one, where Drakken is using his mind control shampoo |
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Post by Aers (That Writer Chick) on Feb 28, 2006 21:51:00 GMT -5
hmm... I'd have to say that it depends on the reader on if the characters are OOC too far to make the story "work" for you as a KP fanfiction and instead it's an original piece with just the same names as the characters. I can't see Kim/Ron/anyone on the show, for example, smoking or doing drugs. It's just not mentioned in that Disney alternative universe, so I don't think that having it appear would be anything BUT OOC. Same with guns - heck, Kim would be majorly out of her element and dead/severely wounded if Jack Hench just armed a few of his thugs with decent weapons! I would say that it all comes back down to the author, as mentioned earlier. If you're a *good* writer you can make me believe that Kim would take up smoking or that Ron would be packing a .45 with the backstory behind it to make it "fit" into the KP universe. But it's hard and a lot of new writers tend to want to put in something "shocking" to make their story stand out from the plethora that's out there, so they go for the shock value without putting in the logical progression behind it. and, of course, I could be totally wrong. oooh... look, hot cocoa-moo with marshmallows! *wanders off*  |
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Post by drakkenlover on Feb 28, 2006 21:53:19 GMT -5
Would anyone consider Ron fighting with vengance against someone, because they hurt Kim, OOC?
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Post by Aers (That Writer Chick) on Feb 28, 2006 21:59:28 GMT -5
whattamean, "with vengeance"?
heck, we've seen him get rather piqued when Kim's in danger - thus the Ron Factor in effect.
do you mean mad enough to kill someone, or???
whups... cold cocoa-moo no good.
*runs away*
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Post by apoptosis on Feb 28, 2006 22:05:18 GMT -5
Personally, I think there are no limits to what is OOC and what isn't as long as you can explain why the characters are acting OOC and/or how the characters became that way. If you can provide a plausible explanation for what we (the readers) are seeing/reading, then there's no problem. Do whatever you see fit, but be able to justify it.
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Post by zaratan on Feb 28, 2006 22:11:24 GMT -5
Well, in my series, when Monkey Fist put Kim in a coma and almost killed Bonnie, Ron did go ape s*&^ on MF, even shattering the guy's leg. But no matter how much he wanted to, he didn't kill, and that was the one boundary I set up for him.
Of course, Shego snuffed MF at the end of my second story, but we're talking Ron here.
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Post by Pim Peccable on Feb 28, 2006 22:15:51 GMT -5
Both were very in character, too. Ron's angst (not more than appropriate <Kill yes-no>) Shego's plain out anger!  |
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