> These things that used to "violate the setting" are suddenly canon.
Eh, no? Something like DHIL's reveal isn't a violation of the setting because by definition of the in game story being what defines canon. A story written pre-reveal having him as a normal human would retroactively become "AU" after the reveal happens.
A story written pre-reveal that actually matches the Vidyadhara background might lead one to suspect the writer read leaks of the plot beforehand. The story itself would've gone from a more extreme AU to a more canon-compliant story, if we're just talking labels.
> There's nothing stopping HSR writers from going "actually, the aeons are gamers and the entire HSR universe was one giant Impact 3rd TTRPG campaign and we were writing a story-within-a-story this whole time".
> that plot twist is stupid, I reject your reality and replace it with my own
More seriously, sure, and that's the point at which people who don't like the direction the canon story is going is going to drop out of the game, and potentially the fandom.
With regards to fanfic, there are certainly precedents for how fans react to "bad" canon writing. For example, Highlander fics that ignore the last season or just Richie's death. SG1 fics that ignores the last 2 seasons. So forth. They're AU premises that are very popular with writers & readers, but no one claims it's not AU.
> It sounded like you're saying that kind of AU would still make the characters OOC, because there's no paths to walk and they wouldn't have their powers per the HSR setting.
For this specific modern earth AU example, if it's a pure PWP or fluff piece, then it doesn't really matter. But if it's a corporate espionage story, for example, then I wouldn't be interested, because such a story would lack the sci-fi elements and scale that comes with the HSR background.
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Date: 2024-09-22 04:35 pm (UTC)Eh, no? Something like DHIL's reveal isn't a violation of the setting because by definition of the in game story being what defines canon. A story written pre-reveal having him as a normal human would retroactively become "AU" after the reveal happens.
A story written pre-reveal that actually matches the Vidyadhara background might lead one to suspect the writer read leaks of the plot beforehand. The story itself would've gone from a more extreme AU to a more canon-compliant story, if we're just talking labels.
> There's nothing stopping HSR writers from going "actually, the aeons are gamers and the entire HSR universe was one giant Impact 3rd TTRPG campaign and we were writing a story-within-a-story this whole time".
You mean something like this? =P
> that plot twist is stupid, I reject your reality and replace it with my own
More seriously, sure, and that's the point at which people who don't like the direction the canon story is going is going to drop out of the game, and potentially the fandom.
With regards to fanfic, there are certainly precedents for how fans react to "bad" canon writing. For example, Highlander fics that ignore the last season or just Richie's death. SG1 fics that ignores the last 2 seasons. So forth. They're AU premises that are very popular with writers & readers, but no one claims it's not AU.
> It sounded like you're saying that kind of AU would still make the characters OOC, because there's no paths to walk and they wouldn't have their powers per the HSR setting.
For this specific modern earth AU example, if it's a pure PWP or fluff piece, then it doesn't really matter. But if it's a corporate espionage story, for example, then I wouldn't be interested, because such a story would lack the sci-fi elements and scale that comes with the HSR background.