Wah, my comments on your comments are getting posted funny. Anyway, THANK YOU so much as usual for the mega-long detailed critique. I was especially glad to get some comments on Clarisse because this is the first time I've used an original character so heavily in a story. If her character felt disjointed it's probably because I kept changing who she was as I wrote the story. I'll have to take another look at those early parts.
Re: the prostitution plot device, I was actually planning on having Celes go into the biz too, but the more I thought about it the more it didn't sit right with me. A Celes who grew up in the gutter might not mind becoming a prostitute, sure, but the Celes we know from the game definitely would, and AUs that change a character too much risk alienating their audience. Really, the whole point of AUs (and fanfic in general) is to tug at the readers' fannish memories (as you noticed with the Terra shoutout ha ha), not to trample all over them. And I managed to get the idea of Clarisse "selling" Celes in there anyway, so it all worked out.
At some point I'm going to write one or two more of these Celes AUs. Celes gives me lots of ideas. :D
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Date: 2013-02-14 01:04 am (UTC)Re: the prostitution plot device, I was actually planning on having Celes go into the biz too, but the more I thought about it the more it didn't sit right with me. A Celes who grew up in the gutter might not mind becoming a prostitute, sure, but the Celes we know from the game definitely would, and AUs that change a character too much risk alienating their audience. Really, the whole point of AUs (and fanfic in general) is to tug at the readers' fannish memories (as you noticed with the Terra shoutout ha ha), not to trample all over them. And I managed to get the idea of Clarisse "selling" Celes in there anyway, so it all worked out.
At some point I'm going to write one or two more of these Celes AUs. Celes gives me lots of ideas. :D