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Um, I'm having the stupidest dilemma.
See, this fic is... well... unashamedly using Gundam Wing characters. But there's no gundams or other mobile suits and their backstories are kind of different, and I wonder if when it's done I could erase out all the GW things and make it entirely oficcy.
Basically I'm wondering if I shouldn't rename them NOW, so as to avoid confusion in my brain with my previous GW fic that also involved werewolves. Also because I want to get rid of unnecessary little details like Duo having an unnatural attachment to his braid, and it would help if readers don't associate the name with "priest kid with braid blahblah sister helen blah". So that's a bit farther from canon than I usually get. And since I don't have that association it would be easier for me to remember to actually add some freakin backstory in this mess, instead of assuming people already know it all, and making it readable to people who don't necessarily know the original canon.
But in the other hand I'm still using GW character personalities. Or at least the bases. And it would be kind of obvious (at least until the eventual rewrite) that it's more or less GW fanfic in disguise, because apart from the fact that Duo's got a ponytail and a three day beard, the physical appearances wouldn't be that different.
Would it come off as kind of fake to use different names?
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The names would be: Tyr Lowe (Tyr being the son of Odin, i r so subtle. no more japanese ancestry btw, it was never even visible on him and he wasn't raised in the culture either), Duane Maxwell (I've got to change Maxwell for ... something not Maxwell. But so far I can't figure out a thing. Maxwell suits him so well. Also it's really easy to bark in an irritated manner >:DDDD), Tracy Bates (so Duane can tease him about the girly name XD not crazy about Bates though. Suggestions? Would like a name that starts with B and that sounds good when used in discussion -- a lot of people don't use his first name), Cameron Gabriel Wright (Probably goes by Gabe, I think), Xiang Yu Wei (I just liked the vowels the most in Wufei's name, so... yeah. XD;)
... Actually i'm gonna type out the story with those names, because I believe it'll help me remember to actually put some backstory and worldbuilding in instead of assuming. But I want to know whether I should switch 'em back when I post, either because it'll throw the readers out or because it seems too much like cheating/fake as if I was trying to pretend I built the characters myself from the ground up. Because the Gboys are very archetypal in a way and I do plan to deepen them and make them evolve a bit, but they're always going to be there at the core.
See, this fic is... well... unashamedly using Gundam Wing characters. But there's no gundams or other mobile suits and their backstories are kind of different, and I wonder if when it's done I could erase out all the GW things and make it entirely oficcy.
Basically I'm wondering if I shouldn't rename them NOW, so as to avoid confusion in my brain with my previous GW fic that also involved werewolves. Also because I want to get rid of unnecessary little details like Duo having an unnatural attachment to his braid, and it would help if readers don't associate the name with "priest kid with braid blahblah sister helen blah". So that's a bit farther from canon than I usually get. And since I don't have that association it would be easier for me to remember to actually add some freakin backstory in this mess, instead of assuming people already know it all, and making it readable to people who don't necessarily know the original canon.
But in the other hand I'm still using GW character personalities. Or at least the bases. And it would be kind of obvious (at least until the eventual rewrite) that it's more or less GW fanfic in disguise, because apart from the fact that Duo's got a ponytail and a three day beard, the physical appearances wouldn't be that different.
Would it come off as kind of fake to use different names?
[Poll #1479194]
The names would be: Tyr Lowe (Tyr being the son of Odin, i r so subtle. no more japanese ancestry btw, it was never even visible on him and he wasn't raised in the culture either), Duane Maxwell (I've got to change Maxwell for ... something not Maxwell. But so far I can't figure out a thing. Maxwell suits him so well. Also it's really easy to bark in an irritated manner >:DDDD), Tracy Bates (so Duane can tease him about the girly name XD not crazy about Bates though. Suggestions? Would like a name that starts with B and that sounds good when used in discussion -- a lot of people don't use his first name), Cameron Gabriel Wright (Probably goes by Gabe, I think), Xiang Yu Wei (I just liked the vowels the most in Wufei's name, so... yeah. XD;)
... Actually i'm gonna type out the story with those names, because I believe it'll help me remember to actually put some backstory and worldbuilding in instead of assuming. But I want to know whether I should switch 'em back when I post, either because it'll throw the readers out or because it seems too much like cheating/fake as if I was trying to pretend I built the characters myself from the ground up. Because the Gboys are very archetypal in a way and I do plan to deepen them and make them evolve a bit, but they're always going to be there at the core.
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I'd say use your own names if it makes it easier for you.
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Yeah, I think I'll do that. ^__^ (of course there's the matter of how I'm a whore for reviews and all that jazz, but thaaaat's for later. I'll try not to think about it for now. >___>;;;;)