inuyasha fan fiction rant

[kokoronagomu]

i read a fic where it has kagome being all angsty and sad wishing she would die soon because when kaou (the flower youkai) had said that inuyasha had tears of blood because he was thinking of the one he loved the most wishing he were with her -- thinking about that years later after leaving her time to be with him and marrying him, thinking he wasn

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[knittingknots]

I hear ya.

But then I think that for a lot of writers, it's not about doing canon stories where they are in true character, but expressing something they like/need/are exploring and using the characters as faces for those stories they are trying to tell. If they bug me, I don't read them. Not many I read nowadays, because after writing so many of them, I'm kinda biased about how they should be characterized....LOL.

[kokoronagomu]

i agree, i think this author is going through a bad time emotionally and is expressing through kagome's whining.

i feel that a lot of the stupidity over the relationship comes from the failure of american voice actor's and their directors in withholding most of the emotional subtext. the original japanese voice actors use much more inflection in their portrayals of the character's emotions that isn't at all in the dubs. yamaguchi kappei's voice is amazing in expressing such vivid emotions.

the way you write their relationship and characterizations are 'spot on' in my book -- that is exactly how i had always pictured them.

[knittingknots]

His voice is so wonderful...that's part of it, and the lack of knowing how significant touch is in Japanese culture. American kids miss the cues

Plus the fanon has evolved some tropes that just resonate to some people. They need Kagome to be anxious about Kikyou's place in InuYasha's heart, they need the both of them to be as thick as a brick about communicating their feelings, they need InuYasha to be emotionally abusive to Kagome, and so on and so on. The archetypes of love triangles and roles of boyfriend/girlfriend dominate over the canon story by a long shot.

But tropes like that, things that resonate to folks, far and above what's in the canon probably evolve in every fandom that's large enough.

I thank you for the vote of confidence about my characterization...

[kmoaton]

I feel you there! I know there are some fics written before the end of the manga but at the same time so many writers haven't even read the manga! They tend to miss the subtleties of the relationship between Kagome and IY. It's frustrating!

[kokoronagomu]

oh it is! like you said most haven't read the manga and they haven't even seen it in japanese so they don't realize how much the translators have messed with the dialog and the emotional feel of the story. voice inflection means more in japanese than even what's said and that's all lost in the english. it is funny how these people insist that they really know 'inuyasha' when they still call all the creatures 'demons' and kirara 'kilala' and insist that kagome's got brown eyes instead of blue/gray... lolz