Wondering//Fan fiction

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I'm thinking about doing another Scandinavia And the World -fan comic, but I'm still not sure. I have a good idea (that is my own, this time), and I could not do it with my own characters and I'm not gonna make my own SATW/Hetalia -type characters. No thanks. What do you think, should I give it a go?

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Ugh! Go away stupid fly, you are disturbing me!!
Uh, sorry about that.
Ahem.

I want to babble little bit about fan fictions and fan comics.
As usual, there are good and bad fan works.
Do you know where I draw the line?
I think that good fan works respect the original story and characters. Even if you didn't like the original ending and do an ending of your own, you don't change the characters. Of course, all characters (are supposed to!) grow during the story, but you write decisions that the original author would have made them make, you draw them communicate with other characters like the original artist would have made them.
In bad fan works, you tear everything apart.
Nothing makes sense anymore. The cool mysterious guy suddenly turns out to be gay, and confesses his love to a man twice as old as he is. Characters' natures turn completely upside down, because everything happens too quickly. The story is too short for these changes, it goes all by the one who is making the fic.
Can you tell the difference?
Think about your own characters. You just don't make them do what you want. They sort of live their own lives, and you just tell others what's happening.
If your characters are not alive, you are not trying hard enough. I always try to make some kind of character but he/she always turns out to be someone else.
You know, just like having a child. :)

I don't really like pairings, especially boy x boy -pairings, because they are mostly just someone's fantasies. I can't understand Remus x Sirius -pairings or SasuNaru or NaruGaara -pairings. I more like think of them as really good brothers.
Don't get me wrong, even I have some fav pairings, but usually they go by the original plot: Hermione x Ron, Bella x Edward (Yes, I love the first Twiligh book, but I hope SM didn't wrote any other parts and that no movies were made), IchiHime and one that doesn't go by the plot, NejiHina.
And I so wish that Snape could have somehow made it out with Lily. Not as lovers, but good friends.

So when writing fics or drawing fan comics, please think about the characters and if they really reacted the way you want them to. And if they do, please explain to the rest of us why they did so.
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