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Thank you so much for attempting to create a fanwork for me! I'm sure I will love it anyways, but here are some details about what I like/dislike, in case you like to do your research.

( Here I ramble about myself )

Fandom 1: The Legend of the Sun Knight (Any)
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Fandom 2: Sengoku Basara (Any)
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Fandom 3: Shin Sangokumusou | Dynasty Warriors (Any)
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Fandom 4: Hetalia: Axis Powers (Taiwan/Vietnam, Liechtenstein /Switzerland)
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Link: http://female-fest.dreamwidth.org/7723.html (Prompt post)

Description: A multifandom fest celebrating the female-centric relationship in fandom

Sign-up date/deadline: Accepting prompts through midnight, Central US time, Mid June. Masterlist of prompts go up on the 25th of June to begin claiming.

Due date: No later than September 14

Posting date: 14 August- 14 September

What your character does for a living, even if it doesn’t feature prominently in your story, will profoundly affect who he is and how he responds to the world around him. In our society that we're so defined by our jobs that job loss and a change of job position is a major job source. However, jobs do come with hazards.

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So you want to scare your readers. To target their primal fear and make them stay awake all the night. To turn the normality into nightmare fuel. To see if the characters can handle tragedy and fear to come out all right. Stay tuned to this post... or we won't know what'd happen to you.

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Failure and setback stories are among the hardest story to tell about us. We screw up. We know it, but we may not want to admit to ourselves, let along to others. Failure creates a rift between ourselves and others. We fear that the others will lose faith in ourselves. Worse, our failure may hurt others. It 's equally hard to account for the characters we like as it's hard to be objective about it. Success is easier to be accountable fdor failure, but perhaps because of this, failure often define a character. This's why I 'm trying to do this post to provide my thought on writing about the characters' failure.

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"When I woke up, I was led by two voices, one like the sound of thunders. And the other civilized, polite. We've been comrades ever since, but now we 're enemies." - Steve Rogers

When characters betray each other's trust, it 's often played for drama as a stab on your back hurts. No matter the trust violates was amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations, the relationship is often inevitably broken and seldom can heal from it. Once bitten, twice shy. It's understandable that to quite a lot people, a betrayal is a nail to the coffin. An event horizon that a relationship never can go back from. For some others, betrayals can be bygone with atonement and true remorse.  But usually we don't expect it to be forgiven lightly. That's why non-canonical betrayals in fanfics can be seen as character bashing. But then it can also be seen as a good chance to test the characters and there's always canonical betrayal (actual or perceived) that the fanfic writers want or need to deal with. Sadly I don't have much experience with betrayal in fanfics, but I'd like to talk about two betrayals in canon  (actual or perceived) that leads to my different response.

( Spoiler for Harrt Potter and Marvel comics: Civil Wars plot line )

Question: What do you think about betrayals in canon or fanworks? How do you deal with it?

So you may know about the classical romance triangle between Superman, Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Or how Spiderman balances between the meek Peter Parker and the superhero Spiderman. Or when in Les Miserables Jean Valjean puts on a fake identity. There's a name for this kind of stories: 'Identity Porn' , which is a narrative kink for stories which focus on people with fluid, or multiple, or secret, identities, and how those identities work.

Identity porn fascinates us, as our identity is what distinguish us from other people. But identity porn kind of play with the assumption that we have a single, real and consistent identity.  In our daily life, we put on a social face "to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual", and a secret identity is a logical extension of that. Who's the one behind the mask? Is there really a person behind the mask? A lot of examples can be found in superhero and magic girls canons, as many of the characters have a secret identity, and this affects the people in their respective position in the society and their community. It introduces a lot of tension in how the characters form relationships with others and see themselves. Of course sometimes we love it just because it's hot. .

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Arts of the Japan Bed chambers (NSFW)

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