Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161227234116

How does fan art or hentai art of RWBY character make you feel?

Sure it's an art form and people should be allowed creative freedom, but can you still respect the character shown in that light? If a person draws fan art of Nikos and Ruby and it couldn't be farther from how their real personalities are in canon, how do you respond? There are some how dedicate entire fan fiction to discrediting and killing off characters they don't like. Why? What make humanity create these ideas that veer off from the truth? And why do they enjoy those sometimes over the real version of the characters? For example, If a person draws Weiss as some hedonist like the Greeks of old am I to believe they like Weiss' looks but want her to be a completely different person? I don't even like Weiss but I'm not sure that's something I can get behind.

I don't see the point of things that aren't canon to the source material. Especially with RWBY being so plot driven. I've never wanted to draw porn of characters I like, I respect them too much. It would feel like I was degrading them. And I wouldn't want to write fan fiction about anyone in RWBY because I have the real show for that. I respect people's right to make those things but I always feel like something is lost from the true essence of the show. The same way I feel about anything I respect.

It's been said by people who watch niche stuff like anime that they "love the shows, hate the fans". I wouldn't say "hate". But it takes some strong tolerance sometimes to endure stuff people do around you. I've only gone to an anime convention twice and a half. And didn't like it at all. I'm glad we like the same stuff but I'm just better off being by myself. And I feel that same way here a lot of the time too. It's the same reason I'm not on chat rooms or facebook or twitter.

Wasn't it Hemmingway who said "Hell is other people"? No, wait, it was Jean-Paul Satre. Thank you Google. 