[LYA] Mun Prompt 9.3 Canon puncture/Fourth wall
Many of us have had to deal with canon puncture if we play in popular fandoms, or breaking the fourth wall. How do you handle it?
I’m very fortunate in that the Supernatural canon has the boys and everything that happened to them already canon punctured so it’s not an issue for Dean. He even has fangirls and is aware of fanfiction and discussion boards about his life thanks to the episode Monster at the End of This Book. Link to the funniest scene ever where they’re discussing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF8gd6UICx4
For other characters though, it’s hard. In Buffy comic canon, Harmony had a reality show and talked about Slayers as well as Andrew having infomercials about becoming a Slayer so when Buffy is canon punctured I always have her blame Andrew for selling the story to either TV or comics depending on how she’s canon punctured.
I was in oncoming_storms prompt community and they had a prompt about your character channel surfing and coming across the tv show based on their life. I had it set in Pete’s World with Rose and Jackie more upset about the choice of actresses and how they were portrayed than by the content of the show.
No matter how my pup is canon punctured, I try to handle it realistically for the character. Some would be traumatized to think that their lives were used for entertainment purposes. Others would be flattered and find it funny that they had fans. Because of the diversity of the types of reactions it would have, I prefer to be forewarned so I can figure out how I’m going to deal with it.
On the flip side, if my character is a big geek for say Batman like Dean is, I would handle it differently. I wouldn’t canon puncture Bruce Wayne/Batman pup without express permission, but the fanboy squeezing would be internalized.
These situations would also be handled realistically. When Dean met Clark Kent from Kansas on his arrival in a game, he thought the man was either delusional or the worst scam artist on the planet for picking the name Clark Kent and saying he’s from Kansas. While Dean will pick out old rocker names or old TV characters for aliases he would never go to someone obvious like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne.
In the end, I try to stay very true to character in the response to either being canon punctured or seeing someone that they talk about in their own canons as fictional characters.
Mun for Dean Winchester ~*~ Supernatural ~*~ 394 words
I’m very fortunate in that the Supernatural canon has the boys and everything that happened to them already canon punctured so it’s not an issue for Dean. He even has fangirls and is aware of fanfiction and discussion boards about his life thanks to the episode Monster at the End of This Book. Link to the funniest scene ever where they’re discussing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF8gd6UICx4
For other characters though, it’s hard. In Buffy comic canon, Harmony had a reality show and talked about Slayers as well as Andrew having infomercials about becoming a Slayer so when Buffy is canon punctured I always have her blame Andrew for selling the story to either TV or comics depending on how she’s canon punctured.
I was in oncoming_storms prompt community and they had a prompt about your character channel surfing and coming across the tv show based on their life. I had it set in Pete’s World with Rose and Jackie more upset about the choice of actresses and how they were portrayed than by the content of the show.
No matter how my pup is canon punctured, I try to handle it realistically for the character. Some would be traumatized to think that their lives were used for entertainment purposes. Others would be flattered and find it funny that they had fans. Because of the diversity of the types of reactions it would have, I prefer to be forewarned so I can figure out how I’m going to deal with it.
On the flip side, if my character is a big geek for say Batman like Dean is, I would handle it differently. I wouldn’t canon puncture Bruce Wayne/Batman pup without express permission, but the fanboy squeezing would be internalized.
These situations would also be handled realistically. When Dean met Clark Kent from Kansas on his arrival in a game, he thought the man was either delusional or the worst scam artist on the planet for picking the name Clark Kent and saying he’s from Kansas. While Dean will pick out old rocker names or old TV characters for aliases he would never go to someone obvious like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne.
In the end, I try to stay very true to character in the response to either being canon punctured or seeing someone that they talk about in their own canons as fictional characters.
Mun for Dean Winchester ~*~ Supernatural ~*~ 394 words