![]() ![]() The line between constructive criticism and complaining for sake of complaining has been passed long ago. Story writing only needs to go so far as to make things sound plausible before it gets bogged down with wasted words.Ī lot of the work of writing goes into this unspoken contract between author and reader.ĭifferent readers fighting about their standards of what is required to suspend disbelief is missing the point. ![]() Verisimilitude is about how a world feels real enough to be accepted, and credibility is about how a character's motivations or actions can be understood or empathized with by the reader. 'Believability' in a story is largely about how willing readers are to 'suspend disbelief'. So wanting to come home is not any insufficient motivation. InuYasha, Magic Knights Rayearth, Spirited Away, even Digimon counts. Remember, there used to be isekai where people's motivation was clearly ' get me the hell out of here'. Do not try to force your own preferred motivations on someone else's character that is being written.įanfiction is still a form of literature, and consciously or subconsciously, writers may be challenging common themes in their genre. Some things might even be assumed as a more realistic normal human reaction, that a SI is not by default someone who would be alienated from their old life in favor of new adventure. Delay gratification character development does not mean spoonfeeding the reader all that can be known about the character. Sometimes things just need to remain in shadow until needed. It is not necessary for the reader to know everything about a character's motivation. This is not one of those stories.Ī) not be insulting in your complaints and rebuttalsī) not try to make the author doxx themselvesĬ) retread old criticisms that had already been addressed. Some audiences also find it easier to identify with a SI character than a blank slate character, and other stories treat the SI as a vicarious 'we' experience. Some prefer maximal realism from a person. Some people like writing basically about an original character. How the author wants to treat their Self-Insert character is their own business. Enough complaining about the main character's motivation as it relates to irl matters ![]()
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