robottko replied to your post “I really love the 99% of you who aren’t trolls. Just...

robottko
replied to your post “I really love the 99% of you who aren’t trolls. Just saying. ”

Inaccurate…character…work…???? I’m sorry but I am so baffled like you characters are 100% spot on that you should be hired by BBC to write for them…

Bless you. thank you for that. I found the most baffling part the bit where they said that they disliked Mary but didn’t see her as a villain. So… why the dislike…? Weird. Either way, I think that sometimes people forget that characterisation in the world of fanfiction, is a rather subjective thing. It has to be WAY off to consider it “inaccurate”. Fanfic is the art of imitation, rather than creation from nothing, and it’s very possible to have many interpretations and many imitations that read as true or resonate with people. I don’t even think that I write Sherlock or John exactly the same way every single time, and that’s fine - people, real and fictional, also change depending on their circumstances. There’s a wide range of possibility here, and we already have that in the fandom. Every author’s version is going to be slightly different from every other author’s, and that sort of range is not only normal in a fandom, but welcome. It’s exactly as it should be. 

In canon, Mary shot Sherlock. In my fic, Mary shot another, less important character. One who isn’t literally the title character of the show. That’s completely consistent with canon. *shrug*