Why is it so hard to get this guy's fic?!

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OK, I don't get it, JY wins the 2024 popularity poll and yet the most popular pairing is Aventurine/Dr. Ratio?!

Why?!

Fandom, FFS, what are y'all doing?!

Edit: I am highly amused that Argenti squeezed into the top 8. Less amused at Blade's ridiculously high rank. Have to say I'm a bit surprised by Kafka's high ranking.

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Meanwhile, this guy agrees with me that 骁卫 is second-in-command only to the general. Glad I'm not completely barking up the wrong tree.

Additionally, the sequence of events is slightly clearer. Jingliu was sent to protect Dan Feng in the battle against Shuhu... Wow, Dan Feng must feel like crap... (Also, apparently Jing Yuan was not yet promoted during battle against Shuhu. There's apparently a document where Jing Yuan noted his first job as general was cleaning up the Imbibitor Lunae mess, meaning he got promoted in the midst of battle, which is also presumably when the previous general died. Man, piecing together this timeline is difficult.)

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JY gives the impression of goody two shoes, with his manipulation hidden such that if you don't dig into his story most casual gamers don't grasp it.

I mean, sure, but there's also tons of explainer videos, so even a person who isn't playing the game (like me) can grasp the characterization... Also, I greatly doubt someone who's not paying too much attention to the story is going to be inspired to write, regardless of whom they're shipping, while the ones who do end up writing would probably look deeper into the lore.

throw the whole genocided clan, slavery, self destructive ISSUES right into your face

... I feel like the game's writing is very much not qualified to be addressing those issues and have suspicion that it's just there for sympathy points rather than actually dealing with the lore.

And most people don't really dig that deep into the lore.

I dunno, given the message board discussions and the extensive character lore compilation articles, I feel there's not an insignificant amount of people interested in the lore stuff. Especially when it comes to all the literary references.

[tanithryudo]

Em, I am not convinced that many of the fanfic authors actually bother to research the characters before writing them. Especially given that 99% of all fics in this fandom are OOC. Some are even tagged OOC outright because the author just wants to slap the pretty faces on their AU or head-fantasy.

People on message boards & forums are generally not the casual majority... I am also not sure there is that much a cross over between the boards/forums and the fanfic authors. The former tends to lean more towards minmax gaming and memeing.

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I mean, fair enough I doubt the casual majority are bothering with writing fanfic either. But my general feeling is the writing part of fandom definitely just ignores the characters and write their own original fantasy then slapping the faces on after the fact. At this point, tho', I wonder what is even the point of fanfic. Might as well just write original fic. ಥ_ಥ

And this is why I'm leaning toward music videos more and more...