> I think there is some difference in how we are using the word "character".
English is so insufficient sometimes and I don't know CN writing well enough to use that, lol. Why haven't we invented telepathic messaging systems?
> Does that clarify our disagreement?
Mmmmmaybe? I sorta get it, but I'm not sure how to communicate on the same wavelength using the vocabulary that I have.
> I'm focusing specifically on the AU spectrum that involves "setting change" (and I believe "major plot twist" constitutes a "change in setting", since the purpose of a plot twist is to re-contextualize the previous assumptions about the setting), since that is what you seem to be objecting to based on the comment about the metaphysics of HSR being part of the core reason you're reading fic.
Em... not...entirely? Hm. How to say this. I don't think "major plot twist" necessarily equates to "setting change". That is, by "major plot twist" we mean that something happened somewhere along the plot that is drastically different from canon.
Like, for instance, an HP fic with Neville becoming the boy who lived instead of Harry, or Sirius surviving book 5, or even Vernon drops Harry off at an US orphanage and Harry grows up in Murica, I would consider a major plot twist but not a setting change. (Though, whether I'd enjoy those premises would depend on if the first few paragraphs/chapters actually grab my attention.)
A "setting change" would be like the cast of Harry Potter in modern US non-magic high school, or the cast of HP as a noir detective story, or the cast of HP growing up in crossover setting X (though this would be getting into the realm of crossovers which is its separate thing). I'm less likely to even open these fics (with the exception of some crossovers, depending on how much I liked the other fandom).
Anyway, I guess I can be a little clearer about what I look for in HSR fanfics in specific: I prefer the whole metaphysics of Aeons either be vaguely canon-compliant (if relevant to the story), or ignored (as in not relevant to the story), but preferably not replaced by some other underlying system (exception being PWPs where it is there for the kink). I prefer characters in their canon gender identity (because I am reading this fandom for the CP, and so the way sex or the kink happens does matter). I ignore fics with SIs, OCs, xovers (because most of those involve Genshin or Impact 3rd and I have no context for those), and characters I dislike (*coughSundaycough*).
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English is so insufficient sometimes and I don't know CN writing well enough to use that, lol. Why haven't we invented telepathic messaging systems?
> Does that clarify our disagreement?
Mmmmmaybe? I sorta get it, but I'm not sure how to communicate on the same wavelength using the vocabulary that I have.
> I'm focusing specifically on the AU spectrum that involves "setting change" (and I believe "major plot twist" constitutes a "change in setting", since the purpose of a plot twist is to re-contextualize the previous assumptions about the setting), since that is what you seem to be objecting to based on the comment about the metaphysics of HSR being part of the core reason you're reading fic.
Em... not...entirely? Hm. How to say this. I don't think "major plot twist" necessarily equates to "setting change". That is, by "major plot twist" we mean that something happened somewhere along the plot that is drastically different from canon.
Like, for instance, an HP fic with Neville becoming the boy who lived instead of Harry, or Sirius surviving book 5, or even Vernon drops Harry off at an US orphanage and Harry grows up in Murica, I would consider a major plot twist but not a setting change. (Though, whether I'd enjoy those premises would depend on if the first few paragraphs/chapters actually grab my attention.)
A "setting change" would be like the cast of Harry Potter in modern US non-magic high school, or the cast of HP as a noir detective story, or the cast of HP growing up in crossover setting X (though this would be getting into the realm of crossovers which is its separate thing). I'm less likely to even open these fics (with the exception of some crossovers, depending on how much I liked the other fandom).
Anyway, I guess I can be a little clearer about what I look for in HSR fanfics in specific: I prefer the whole metaphysics of Aeons either be vaguely canon-compliant (if relevant to the story), or ignored (as in not relevant to the story), but preferably not replaced by some other underlying system (exception being PWPs where it is there for the kink). I prefer characters in their canon gender identity (because I am reading this fandom for the CP, and so the way sex or the kink happens does matter). I ignore fics with SIs, OCs, xovers (because most of those involve Genshin or Impact 3rd and I have no context for those), and characters I dislike (*coughSundaycough*).