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Headcanon essay Part 1/?
Aug. 4th, 2010 09:45 amHeadcanon essay Part 1: Where, when and other things from a stupid BL game that I shouldn’t be obsessing over.
Doing a headcanon essay for an AO character can be difficult sometimes. A few of the characters have well-developed backstories, and some, like Zhores get a few lines of direct info and the rest of it consists of throw-away lines and comments. To be honest I could just do the typical list form and say “this is my headcanon, I have my reasons but I’m lazy”, but the time period I’m working with is a very thorny timeframe. It’s not just cold-war era politics that I’d be tripping over, but I could misrepresent and accidentally give out false information about people who had to live under Stalin.
So I’d have to be a real douche to not research this stuff and show that no, really, I don’t want to offend anybody with how I play my character. (However if I do, I want to know stat so I can stop Doing It Wrong.)
But also I can’t jump right in and mix the facts with how I apply them to my character. All the essaying in the world doesn’t help much if you get something wrong like the date or the location. That’s exactly what this is, the result of about a few months work of sifting through the script, going through books, and being called a dirty commie by a librarian.
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Doing a headcanon essay for an AO character can be difficult sometimes. A few of the characters have well-developed backstories, and some, like Zhores get a few lines of direct info and the rest of it consists of throw-away lines and comments. To be honest I could just do the typical list form and say “this is my headcanon, I have my reasons but I’m lazy”, but the time period I’m working with is a very thorny timeframe. It’s not just cold-war era politics that I’d be tripping over, but I could misrepresent and accidentally give out false information about people who had to live under Stalin.
So I’d have to be a real douche to not research this stuff and show that no, really, I don’t want to offend anybody with how I play my character. (However if I do, I want to know stat so I can stop Doing It Wrong.)
But also I can’t jump right in and mix the facts with how I apply them to my character. All the essaying in the world doesn’t help much if you get something wrong like the date or the location. That’s exactly what this is, the result of about a few months work of sifting through the script, going through books, and being called a dirty commie by a librarian.
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