Hypothetical Question

And this is GENUINELY hypothetical, I post it because I think it’s interesting for readers to face the kind of odd scenarios that actually happen pretty regularly for comic book and other writers of licensed characters.

Okay, you are a writer, you have a name for writing licensed characters, doesn’t matter if it’s comics, television, games, tie-in novels, whatever.

Now, there’s a character or set of characters you love. And recently, they seem to have taken a turn you strongly disagree with, and that is in canon, you can’t change it.

And you are offered a job writing those characters.

Would you:

a) Take the job and hope to explain or mitigate the recent canon stuff you disagree with, even if you can’t change it, or…

b) Avoid the characters even if you really love them because of the canon addition, or…

c) Some other option.

Again, this is hypothetical, I am not talking about a book I’m writing, have written, or will write.

I’m just curious. Even if you are pretty secure in your ethics, questions come up all the time that require lots of thought.

So, in this situations, what would you do?