Hi, 7goodangel. I am here to ask you about PaperJam as a shy, smol and innocent being (mainly thegreatrouge made him be). There has been some conflicts regarding his trait. Some said his canonical personality is a jerk, like what you wrote in his bio / info and some said that is severely wrong and being shy, (which made him shipped with Fresh), is his canonical personality. What are your thoughts about this? I mean, it is your character and people are taking control of it. Don't you disagree?
Well… I have talked to people and seen publicconversations and this has happened several times to me over months. I guessI’ve gotten a little numb to it now… or maybe it’s due to school that Ihaven’t given it the attention that it deserves. Probably due to school.
I just can’t update constantly like others - even thoughsome others in school were and are able to update constantly. I can’t keepgoing around and holding up my bio of PJ and police people. It’s exhausting tome… it really takes up the small bit of free time I have.
I think after I get a solid job that I’ll be able to goaround better… but anyway - back to your question.
While I love seeing interpretations and do not want peopleto be limited by something and have their imaginations go forth… it’s provingthat a huge con comes with that mentality - which you have pointed out. A lotof people swear that PJ is the cute, innocent interpretation that really, didget PJ popular in the first place. While I did have him as a jerk from thebeginning - I kinda kept that info to my RP blog - so you could say it is myfault this is all happening and I do think that. I could of done something tomake it not as bad as it is now…
It’s just like the NSFW stuff… people just assume thefirst thing and run with it. And it really does make me feel like I really amnot needed for my own character at points.
It’s a struggle - I don’t want to have people stopinterpreting PJ within AUs… but I also don’t want people to just see him asan innocent child to ship with Fresh.
And I’m still trying to find the best solution to it.
But… I feel like the damage is already done. It’s too latefor me to talk to all of these people going around swearing on their life thatPJ is canoncally like Rouge’s interpretation/AUs. It feels like an hopelessbattle to me.
And I guess I needed someone to ask me this question so thenI can fully say my thoughts on this.
So in short, while I love creativity and don’t want to snuffit out (considering some people would probably think I’m doing that alreadywith saying “No Sin”), I still don’t like it. It irritates me, irks me,frustrates me, and I feel like even as the person who thought of PJ in thefirst place, my voice isn’t enough. Communities seem like they don’t care aboutartists unless they reach a ‘certain goal of popularity’ or seem like theyhave a more professional style of art. I know I do not reach either of thosetitles.
People misspell my username all the time - I actuallyclaimed ‘7goodangle’ on tumblr for that reason.
People still say “I’m too lazy to find who made PJ”when they clearly mentioned they looked at the bio on the wiki.
People still go around arguing others on the canon ship ofOmniPJ and swearing that FreshPaper is the true canon ship, when all people arepointing out is that they need to keep the canon ship in mind when going aroundwith information.
Even just basic personality traits… and these things arehappening on sites that I do not nor want an account for.
I still want others to have fun - to be happy; but I don’tknow… I guess I’m cutting out my own happiness to get everyone else happy? Iwant to eventually write a version of PJ within his own universe and story…and he is more like the version I created within the UT verse. Not exact - butclose. Though who knows… I might shove PJ to the side and replace his rolewith another character. I’m still weighing options.
Cause PJ was the first character I ever put this much timeand thought into… my first character that was balanced, well rounded…
They took it - changed it (initially as an AU but now peoplethink it’s canon) - and I can’t do much about it. Due to school and not muchfree-time… due to how many don’t know the true creator… and just backtalking anyone who is just mentioning it to people who swear by it.
As an artist and a character designer…
It makes me not want to show designs, characters, andstories ever again online.
Considering if this is how I was treated on the first one…why even take a chance at a second one? If it has brought me so much stress,frustration, and time… why even try it again?
I said I was only going to do fanart so if anyone stole it,it didn’t really matter. I think I should have stuck with that thought process.
In conclusion, there are some major things to take awayhere. First – that yes, I do not like how it has skewed this far to the pointof arguing over a fandom version with the canon. Canon is canon and I get thedifferent AUs – this is too far. Way too far. I am emotionally drained fromthis – from this whole mess that I have been defending throughout majority ofPJ’s lifespan. I will state this – Paper Jam is my character. He is my originalcharacter that I created more than a year ago. And the UT AU fandom took mycharacter and warped him to something he is not and all of his original meaningis lost. I do not like to hurt others or make other sad – but I must put myfoot fully down. This miscommunication needs to stop. I am tired of repeatingthings over and over and I have past my breaking point time and time again. Ijust want people to see PJ how he really is… and I wish that people could befocusing more on the reality of him instead of the alternate that they allclaim as truth.
Final words: I still like Undertale – I still like creatingcharacters and having fun – but the Undertale AU fandom is ridiculous now. The AminoUT community is insanity in an app, and there is a lot of stuff that has mademany artists and creators to their breaking point and leaving the fandomentirely. Everyone in this fandom needs to take ten steps back and look at whatthey are doing. Go back to the game. Play it again – watch your favorite let’splayer’s videos of it again.
And just… food for thought… please don’t jump the gun on someone else’s OC’spersonality and actions.
I do not want anyone to experience what I had.
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