I'm not sure we should concern ourselves about the goal though
hmmm. i'm looking at it like this: when author's writing, say, arranged marriage regency au fic about char a and char b, they're not trying to tell a new story: they're trying to get certain response by retelling certain archetype. which seems to me to be 90% of fiction, though, of course, there're also character exploration, plot-twisters, gap-fillers...
again, it's hard to quantify because the fic world is BIG, anime and manga-based fandoms work differently from western media ones, all of them differ from text-based ones, bandom rps is vastly different from actor-based one and so on. too many variables. still i'd say that the underlying idea is to use the characters - in most suitable way - to fit certain narrative so you can enjoy both the re-enacting and your favourites doing said re-enacting. see the popularity of 'something!au'- see Our Heroes doing cinderella! matrix! heist movie! and so on.
as for lyrical prose, i think i've painted myself into the corner by wrong wording, but i don't know how to say it better. relationship-oriented? no, don't know, abandoning this line of thoughts :D
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hmmm. i'm looking at it like this: when author's writing, say, arranged marriage regency au fic about char a and char b, they're not trying to tell a new story: they're trying to get certain response by retelling certain archetype. which seems to me to be 90% of fiction, though, of course, there're also character exploration, plot-twisters, gap-fillers...
again, it's hard to quantify because the fic world is BIG, anime and manga-based fandoms work differently from western media ones, all of them differ from text-based ones, bandom rps is vastly different from actor-based one and so on. too many variables. still i'd say that the underlying idea is to use the characters - in most suitable way - to fit certain narrative so you can enjoy both the re-enacting and your favourites doing said re-enacting. see the popularity of 'something!au'- see Our Heroes doing cinderella! matrix! heist movie! and so on.
as for lyrical prose, i think i've painted myself into the corner by wrong wording, but i don't know how to say it better. relationship-oriented? no, don't know, abandoning this line of thoughts :D