I wonder what the deltafandom thinks of my take of Dess's character within the AU I'm writing.
Like, I rarely do get comments that talk about the stuff I do when it comes to characterization, most of the stuff I hear about is related to my artwork being pretty, nostalgic, unique, and while that's true, I feel like I'm in need of some feedback in regards to my writing.
To be fair, I wonder what all the fandoms I'm in think of my take of all the characters I write about within the AUs I do. Like, I don't just draw pretty pages, I also tell stories within them.
When I draw and write about Sir Fratley from Final Fantasy IX, I want to tell a story about how a guy with amnesia lives his life following that great loss that canon refused to explore in detail.
Really, Fratley is gone the moment Cleyra blows up and he only shows up at the epilogue so Freya could get a happy fairytale ending. But in my fics, and in my fanworks, Fratley struggles to remember who he is, he tries to make a new life for himself, and he has to live life knowing that he lost something he may never recover.
Now I'll talk a bit about Paper Hats Sniff.
In canon (and I'm talking about the 90s anime), Sniff is mostly treated as a comedy relief character, the joke of the butt, the laughing stock. In my fics, though, Sniff is introspective, he reflects a lot to himself, he questions his identity and place in the world, and he also looks older and mature than he does in the source material.
Is the same thing as this?
It's an AU, so of course her characterization will be different from canon, and the other fanons around, but I've been thinking about how I write about her character, her relationship with Noelle and other people, how this take of her character is inspired by other people's takes of the same character, how in this real life AU of sorts she wears a Green Day shirt because "punk Dess" is like a thing, so... I don't know, I read a post in which people discussed her character flaws and I was like "do I write Dess that well?"
No, I'm fairly confident in my ability to write things, but I've been thinking about how there isn't a lot of discussion about what I write versus what I art, if that makes any sense, so, feel free to say anything or like or reblog this post, as usual. It's a weird Sunday.
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