Honestly I just need to get this out there. Keep in mind this is my opinion and all and I’m trying not to sound like an ass but here we go.
It seems like saying your muse is canon divergent is the new trend, like its cooler to be one now so everyones saying it. But I don’t think people really get what it means?
To me anyway, canon divergent is pretty self explanatory, it means your muse has diverted from canon. Like there was a point in their story/arc and you’ve taken them in a different direction, for example, if your muse in canon was wavering being good and bad at some point but in canon stayed good, and then your muse didn’t and went bad, your muse would be canon divergent. Or if you decided to ignore a whole story arc or change a decision your canon muse made because you didn’t agree with it, you’d be canon divergent.
AU (Alternate Universe) muses are different too but can often be called canon divergent as well. Though to me, AU blogs are only canon divergent if the change relates to the canon story, like the good muse going bad, or if the muse lost a fight instead of winning it etc. AU muses are more to me like, ‘if muse A was blind since birth’ or ‘muse B never went to that certain place’.
Anyway, when I see someones blog and it says ‘canon divergent’ on it, I immediately get interested and go to have a look because I want to see the changes and new take on the character, and I’m usually disappointed.
BECAUSE, it seems like hardly anyone makes it clear how their muse is canon divergent. Are we supposed to guess? Go digging through pages of old posts?
If your muse is different in some way, please make it easy to find the information! Put it in the about page and/or rules. How can we rp if I don’t know how you play your muse? I dont want to annoy or upset you by getting something wrong about them.
Another thing is that people call their muse canon divergent when they’re not really, people are just throwing around the term ‘cause its cool or something or they dont know what it really means. Headcanons and ‘adding a lot’ to the muse, doesnt make them canon divergent, not to me anyway, because its not changing the canon really, its not taking the muse away from the canon plot. The headcanons are probably about the muses’ past, which is fine and good and all ‘cause most characters dont have a lot of past. But since they dont have a deep canon past, you’re not diverting the muse from canon, you’re just making your own (i make rp canon for a lot of my own muses too, since minor characters get nothing), unless the characters real past gets revealed and its different from your headcanons but you keep your stuff anyway, your muse isnt divergent.
Anyway, i think thats all my thoughts on it, sorry if it comes out bad but yeah, I’m tired of not knowing how someones muse is divergent, things need to be clearer and people need to stop saying a muse is divergent if they haven’t made a big change to canon. Having a lot of headcanons doesn’t usually mean the muse is divergent.
also yeah i get it, its ‘not a big deal, its just rping’. but it makes things less fun for me okay, i want to know how a muse is divergent and i want to stop seeing the term used wrongly
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