Confusing Manifestation wrote:
:: From: "Django Wexler" <dwexler@andrew.cmu.edu>
:: To: <FFML@anifics.com>
:: Subject: [FFML] Re: [Fanfic][Ranma] "A Typical Ranma Fic"
:: Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:48:52 -0500
::
::: Not that I'm knocking deviation from canon, but after a certain
::: point it becomes pointless -- you're not writing fanfic, you're
::: writing original fiction in which you refuse to define your own
::: characters and instead use parodies on someone elses.
::
:: An interesting (although roughly 4th generational from the original
:: topic) point: Assume that at some point it gets so bad that they
:: reach, say, 8th generation fanfics, where the best the characters
:: from the Manga/Anime get are cameos, and all the characters are the
:: ones introduced in the 3rd-7th generation fics. Can it still be
:: considered to be a Ranma (or whatever) fic? Has anyone ever written
:: a fic using only characters created by other fic authors?


Don't know if they qualify, but DB Sommers' sidestories to the Realities
series use mostly characters from that series - who are in turn the
offspring of the characters from Shampoo 1/2. There are other examples
of sidestories centering on another author's original characters.

SP



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