Retro Ace Editorial: Why FanFiction is important(WARNING: LANGUAGE)

My first Video Editorial in which I describe why FanFiction, in the right context, could be important
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[@n-riv8101]

Honestly fan fiction just has the problem of the fact that so many of them are just characters in-name only that don't act in character. That being said there're of course plenty of other fanfics that are faithful and good. I don't like to read fanfic myself but one of the rare few I DID read was a fanfic of potential Dante (from Devil May Cry) vs Bayonetta (from....well...Bayonetta) and this was before the ACTUAL Death Battle between them came out (which is still my #1 fav) and I LOVED that one. But even barring all of that I do completely understand your point, that being creating a fan fic can lead to original ideas. I mean The Iron Giant is TECHNICALLY a fan-fiction about a personified gun. Seeing as how the main idea was "What if a gun had a soul and didn't want to kill" And if we wanna talk anime. Black Clover arguably started out seeming like a Naruto fan fic of "What if Naruto was in Rock Lee's shoes and he and Sasuke were best friends". I'm kinda rambling, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that every beloved story is born because somebody sees something they love and think "How do I make this, but also make it in my own way, or with my own twist?" and Fanfiction can be the birth of that.

[@ariesdemiurge]

Yeah I think this is p-fair. I mean my own story was originally gonna be about the heroes travelling between the universes of stuff like Attack on Titan, Saint's Row, Panty and Stocking, Twilight Zone, that yellow void in Zero Punctuation, whole bunch of random shit. Hell, for awhile it was even gonna be linked to Homestuck (we don't speak about those days anymore). Now though? 100% original worlds and settings, but much like the Satyriacs, traces of the past still linger to form the identity. A framework rather than the armor, if you will. While I tend to live and let live when it comes to people writing fics for fun, I do think using them as a template for a later original work instead will be WAY more beneficial in the long run.

[@FandomWithReploidBill]

I personally have been working on a concept I call Bara Blondess. It's going to be a fantasy setting inspired by Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian, Kull, Arwyn, and He-Man Masters of the Universe. All said and done inspiration is a driving force in all creation. Watch anything and you can point out where you've seen it before if you are well versed enough. Fan fiction is a way to dip your toes into the properties that exist and allow you to learn to separate yourself from what you want and what makes since for characters. In time you will learn to do so in your own work as what you create will need a soul and they story should always be what happens in connection to characters. Not what happens and the characters are along for the ride pulled by the invisible rope of plot. When fan fiction is done right you love the characters and realize that they are not yours. If you want a thing to happen it has to happen in a natural balance and if you can't make it happen you shouldn't write it. That will fall into place with your writing in time and concepts should never be abandoned just shaped over time.