So, since my Dreamwidth f-list is pretty small right now...

[guardians_song]

Let's contemplate what would happened if infamous badficcer Cori Falls had been a Fire Emblem fan rather than a Pokemon fan.

FE6:
-Roy is a big evil meanie-pants who picks on Zephiel, who just wasn't loved enough as a child.
-Zephiel/Brunya, I suppose?
-A Jahn fangirl would have joined up with Cori and written her self-insert OC into a pairing with Jahn, who has mysteriously grown emotions. Well, he obviously has emotions, but "non-self-righteous ***hole" emotions, I mean.
-Desmond would be resurrected at least once to be put through an incredibly humiliating and undignified second death and everyone would remember this as The One Thing Cori Did Right.
-The Bern army would be a loving and benevolent place not at all focused on world conquest.
-At least one War Dragon of abnormal intelligence would be converted into a wise-cracking loudmouth obsessed with Zephiel and Brunya's sex life.
-The entire issue with Idoun would be completely whitewashed. That, or we'd find out she enjoyed being brainwashed. Or something.

Any other suggestions, Sarajayechan?I'll post FE7 and FE8 speculations later. :P

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[guardians_song]

"(LOL, that makes sense. "Oh yeah, Deus ex Miyamoto wiped our memories!")"
'For our own good! Surely! So we could grow!'

"Maybe she lost her job or had a family crisis that made her lose it?"
*shrug* Who can say? Maybe fandom fame went to her head, maybe money got tight - million things can make people get stressed out.

"...oh my God. YES. There's a difference between "okay dude your fics and attitude suck ass, seriously" and SJWs telling you to go die in a fire. Cori was a lot of things, but she was NOT someone who would deserve a death threat. She just bullied people based on fandom preferences, SJWs bully people for sport."
Yes, totally. And the funny thing is... she never really came across as understanding that other people could be hurt or offended by what she was saying. (As opposed to SJWs, who seem to have a refined and detailed understanding of just how much pain they can inflict on people... :\) Like... I really don't think she understood by the end that other people saw Ash as an innocent twelve-year-old rather than a complete psychopathic monster who totally deserved a beatdown. Part of that was early-fandom echo-chamber thinking, but part of that was just her being rather out of it/sheltered/whatever. So, for all that her fics are FUBAR (particularly towards the end), she was really a lot nicer than... a lot of the stuff floating around nowadays... :\

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[sarajayechan]

Yep. I wouldn't put it past the first one, though. My friend Lexi and I have a mutual ex-friend who was pretty chill until she got really popular and then she turned into a giant bitch.

...I never thought of it that way. There was definite malice and rage in her actions, but I never considered the fact that she might have been ignorant rather than outright mean. Like when she said "I don't understand how anyone can like death fics/Ash Ketchum", she really didn't understand. Ignorance coupled with myopia.

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[guardians_song]

Explains Stages 2 and 3 of Cori, I'd think, but Stage 4 is probably a genuine problem. (And yeah, I've seen fame go to people's heads. Who says Flanderization isn't Truth In Television? :\)

...I never thought of it that way. There was definite malice and rage in her actions, but I never considered the fact that she might have been ignorant rather than outright mean. Like when she said "I don't understand how anyone can like death fics/Ash Ketchum", she really didn't understand. Ignorance coupled with myopia.
Yep. She seemed well-meaning, but really... really... really... thick. (And bratty, but that sometimes results just from being both emotionally unstable and thick. :\) That's part of why I figure she's probably a much saner fan now - seen more of the world and how people work, you know? *shrug*

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[sarajayechan]

Yep. D: Stage 4 is where she seemed to genuinely lost it.

Yeah, in your ToTR spork you wondered if she was abused somehow...maybe she was and it shaped her world views for a long time, and getting therapy helped her develop healthier ones.