I'm not into J2 AUs very much at all for that very reason. I mean, if I want to read about Jared and Jensen fucking (and normally I don't really care for it, though I do like RPF) I want to read about THEM fucking, not two completely different characters who just happen to look like them and have their names (and sometimes are from texas, have the same siblings, etc.)
But I think it's very silly to proclaim any RPF fic to be OOC. Jared and Jensen aren't characters - they're real people. No matter how they come across in interviews or whatever else, what people think about them is just speculation based on situations where Jared and Jensen are supposed to be behaving their very professional, charming best. None of us really know what either of them are like. We may have a little insight, but not enough to ever, imo, deem any characterization of them as OOC. To me, non-AU stories make up their personalities just as much as AU stories. The only difference, I think, is that most non-AU stories base Jared and Jensen on widely-accepted characterizations. But who is to say that any other way of writing them is wrong? RPF may be based on reality, but it's incredibly subjective.
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Date: 2010-07-05 07:23 pm (UTC)But I think it's very silly to proclaim any RPF fic to be OOC. Jared and Jensen aren't characters - they're real people. No matter how they come across in interviews or whatever else, what people think about them is just speculation based on situations where Jared and Jensen are supposed to be behaving their very professional, charming best. None of us really know what either of them are like. We may have a little insight, but not enough to ever, imo, deem any characterization of them as OOC. To me, non-AU stories make up their personalities just as much as AU stories. The only difference, I think, is that most non-AU stories base Jared and Jensen on widely-accepted characterizations. But who is to say that any other way of writing them is wrong? RPF may be based on reality, but it's incredibly subjective.