Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25763181-20130826072551/@comment-226878-20130918030720

Teravor wrote: I don't want to see characters I love getting brutally murdered

Fanfiction is usually the only place people can turn to see main characters die unless the work goes by the trope "Anyone Can Die". If you don't want to read about them dying, then don't read the fanfic. A large part of writing a fanfic is to brutally mutilate the source material, making yaoi/yuri ships, turning characters into zombies, having wimps become awesome, and generally creating events that are not conducive to the existing plot in canon.

Typically, my only problem with Fan Fiction is that there tends to be tens of hundreds running in the same vein. But fanfiction is a great place for potential writers to exercise their thought processes and stretch their creativity. I never gave it much credit before, but nearly all of my work has started out as fanfiction.

What was my point again?