That's a good point. I've been known to enjoy specific departures from canon like "Harry Potter, but slightly more perceptive than a sack of beans" or "Stanford Pines, but has heard the phrase 'lab safety' at least once or twice in his life"...
Lack of exclamation marks in a situation where there really should be some. If someone starts doing something horrifically violent to you, you're going to be shouting. Not putting in an exclamation mark just makes "no, stop" sound sarcastic, which isn't what we want here.
To be fair though, people have always liked writing what-if fics about canon harmless characters or good guys murdering everyone. I think that's where the idea of the yandere originally came from. The first time I encountered this..trend was in 1998 in someone's geocities fanfic about Ranma coldly murdering all the other cast members of his cute comedy martial arts anime series like he was baby Hannibal lector.
Lawful Good and Neutral Good should be swapped here. In fact, I feel like this whole image needs adjustment.
Did one of the DnD editions swap out "neutral" for "true" because in that case why aren't "true lawful" and "true chaotic" the names on things to? (I mean, I would contest these types of fanfic writers too, because it's pulling in types where I'm like ??? while completely ignoring the types I would consider pretty standard, but.)
... I could see it as like "Ugh, fine, Wheeljack, I'll write something light and fun to unwind!" [Half an hour later] "... And then Patricia stabbed Cecil in the breakroom with the shards of the coffee tin that he had thrown out. Teaches him to just change which coffee they ordered without asking the staff in a feeble attempt at manipulating his way into a manager position..." (wheeljack in the background like: "uhhhhhhh....")
Ok so i cannot for the life of me find anything properly historical, but the novel i just read involved a bohemian cafe that was rather rough and dangerous, with a bunch of internal politics. I could see him writing about a place like that.
That chart, there are so many problems. I have the terrible urge to redo the whole thing. Example: Lawful - very internally consistent fanfics with meticulous world building and a strict adherence to canon with flaws of being boring and/or inorganic character development because the author follows a strict outline. Updates in a timely way.
I wonder, for a fanfiction authors, do we use "evil" to mean, like, actual jerk behavior, like untagged triggers and holding chapters hostage for reviews, or fanfic-author "evil," like constant cliffhangers and brutal plot twists?
