xxMileikaIvanaxx - Professional, Filmographer | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I have finally decided to talk about something about your story that bothers me a lot: the fact that there is soriel just because you don't want frans to be there.

before I start I'll clarify a few things: I'm not a frans shipper, sometimes I follow some accounts that ship them but it's just because the art looks good to me, honestly I like soriel and I consider it has more chances to be canon than frans, now that this has been clarified, I'd like to start.

the characters are one of the most important parts of a work, be it a book, comic, movie or series. they are, according to my opinion, the most fundamental part of a plot, i'm sure that many people could spend hours watching their favorite characters just talking to each other without doing anything, in the same sense, no matter how fantastic the world is, it's useless if the characters that move around in it are just pieces of cardboard with a mouth.

the relationships between characters are one of the fundamental parts of a work, they are the redemption of zuko, the fall of anakyn and the evolution of kaladin, among all the possible relationships that 2 characters can have (rivals, enemies, family, friends, etc.) one of the most relevant is the romantic one, because it is the one that can have more changes and effects in a plot.

deciding that 2 characters have a romantic relationship just because you don't want one of the characters to be shipped with another is a bad idea, you are forcing a concept that you don't like or that wasn't planned in the work just because you don't like it.

art is about creating, that's why it comes from love, out of love you create, out of hate you destroy, hate can't give birth to art in the same way that water can't give birth to fire.

what bothers me the most is that it doesn't even work, just because 2 characters have a romantic relationship doesn't mean that the fandom won't ship one of the characters with other characters (examples of this abound, chalastor, marco x tom, zuko x katara, etc.).

if your goal was to prevent the fandom from shipping 2 characters there were other ways to prevent it, like openly saying you don't want it to happen, having the characters make it clear in the artwork, etc.

that's all, thanks for listening to my rant.