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Fanfic, canon and headcanon
Aug. 31st, 2014 12:56 pmI ran across this question on Tumblr, but decided to answer it here rather than there, because of Tumblr's lack of interactivity/commenting, and I wanted to open it up for discussion.
If you write fanfic, do you try to make sure your characterization on points that aren’t defined in canon remain consistent from story to story, even if they aren’t in the same continuity? Or do you try different things out in different stories? (I don’t mean natural evolution of how you see a character, but consciously trying out different possibilities. To take a frivolous example, does Joe Character, who we never see drinking coffee in canon, always take his coffee the same way in all your stories?)
I think for me, it kind of depends.
( Long answer under the cut )
If you write fanfic, do you try to make sure your characterization on points that aren’t defined in canon remain consistent from story to story, even if they aren’t in the same continuity? Or do you try different things out in different stories? (I don’t mean natural evolution of how you see a character, but consciously trying out different possibilities. To take a frivolous example, does Joe Character, who we never see drinking coffee in canon, always take his coffee the same way in all your stories?)
I think for me, it kind of depends.
( Long answer under the cut )
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