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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #4: Canon Ball!
Jan. 7th, 2023 11:38 amChallenge #4 asks us to do what fandom does very well and show what we read into the media we're fans of.
A lot of my interest in various canons is about the characters who aren't always in the spotlight and what they might be doing. And a lot of the fic that I write is extrapolation from the canon, either into the future, or what might have come into being to make the requested pairing happen.
( A right and proper grab bag of possible canon extensions )
(This is kind of difficult, actually, because I tend to take the position that canon is a core and that if details need tweaking to make a story work, then do the tweak and don't worry as much about it, so long as the core is recognizable and mostly present. If you set a prompt in front of me, I'll be able to say "Oh, okay, for this pairing to work, this detail has to change, so for this story, this event happened, but turned out differently." Or "This AU has to happen, so these characters map here and these events map here, and that means Adrien is Cinderella, Marinette is the Baker, Gabriel is the witch, Nathalie is the giantess, and Émilie is the Narrator. (Who are the Princes? Chloé and Lila.)" So each fic that I write probably has an addition to canon in it, but those additions may not be consistent outside of their own stories.)
If you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added.
Challenge #4
In your own space, add something to your fandom’s canon.
A lot of my interest in various canons is about the characters who aren't always in the spotlight and what they might be doing. And a lot of the fic that I write is extrapolation from the canon, either into the future, or what might have come into being to make the requested pairing happen.
( A right and proper grab bag of possible canon extensions )
(This is kind of difficult, actually, because I tend to take the position that canon is a core and that if details need tweaking to make a story work, then do the tweak and don't worry as much about it, so long as the core is recognizable and mostly present. If you set a prompt in front of me, I'll be able to say "Oh, okay, for this pairing to work, this detail has to change, so for this story, this event happened, but turned out differently." Or "This AU has to happen, so these characters map here and these events map here, and that means Adrien is Cinderella, Marinette is the Baker, Gabriel is the witch, Nathalie is the giantess, and Émilie is the Narrator. (Who are the Princes? Chloé and Lila.)" So each fic that I write probably has an addition to canon in it, but those additions may not be consistent outside of their own stories.)
