Oh no, you saw right through my plan to get you to elaborate on your OP thoughts :P whatever am I going to do now, I guess I'm just gonna have to sit here and talk back to you so you say more delightful smart things like I knew you would.
All facetiousness aside -- the combination of a character limit and trying to do more of an view-from-up-high "characterisation 101" post explains why the original sounded strangely nonspecific and general. I am Entirely Unsurprised and also Immensely Delighted by your grasp of his character, and what you said pretty much gave me an uncontrollable urge to yank at an frayed corner I found because??? That can't have been all of it, can it?
Also, knowing better what you mean by writing different versions of the same character (re: your comparison of Domestic Affairs!OP and Last Mech Standing!OP) does make me see the merit in that wording even if it leaves me kind of ">:|c???" on the inside. I tend to approach characterisation as much more of a four-dimensional melange, where the different "versions" of a character are honestly more, just... the same person, but in different lighting, from different angles and under different circumstances. It's more of a Continuous Mess Of Nonsense, and the only time I'd use your phrasing is when I'm talking about AU versions of the continuity in question.
Ultimately, like I said in my previous comment, something about the original post read as... hedging for me, which stuck out really bad because I definitely know your grasp on character is less shallow than that :'3 I'm glad you took the time to clarify.
(Also Re: G1 OP vs the OP archetype -- you're so right, G1 OP being such a giant doofus is definitely one of the reasons he's such a Big Mood good guy comfort character. I've said it elsewhere that OP's defining feature as a member of the Red-White-And-Blue Boyscout Values club is his humanity, but even that humanity can take on different aspects depending on which continuity we're talking about, and for G1 it's definitely that sense of warmth and good humour he has, it's great.)
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Date: 2019-03-16 07:28 pm (UTC)All facetiousness aside -- the combination of a character limit and trying to do more of an view-from-up-high "characterisation 101" post explains why the original sounded strangely nonspecific and general. I am Entirely Unsurprised and also Immensely Delighted by your grasp of his character, and what you said pretty much gave me an uncontrollable urge to yank at an frayed corner I found because??? That can't have been all of it, can it?
Also, knowing better what you mean by writing different versions of the same character (re: your comparison of Domestic Affairs!OP and Last Mech Standing!OP) does make me see the merit in that wording even if it leaves me kind of ">:|c???" on the inside. I tend to approach characterisation as much more of a four-dimensional melange, where the different "versions" of a character are honestly more, just... the same person, but in different lighting, from different angles and under different circumstances. It's more of a Continuous Mess Of Nonsense, and the only time I'd use your phrasing is when I'm talking about AU versions of the continuity in question.
Ultimately, like I said in my previous comment, something about the original post read as... hedging for me, which stuck out really bad because I definitely know your grasp on character is less shallow than that :'3 I'm glad you took the time to clarify.
(Also Re: G1 OP vs the OP archetype -- you're so right, G1 OP being such a giant doofus is definitely one of the reasons he's such a Big Mood good guy comfort character. I've said it elsewhere that OP's defining feature as a member of the Red-White-And-Blue Boyscout Values club is his humanity, but even that humanity can take on different aspects depending on which continuity we're talking about, and for G1 it's definitely that sense of warmth and good humour he has, it's great.)