I try, always, to remember that how I feel about character X has nothing to do with how character Y feels
Yeah - that's one half of it. The other half being - how I feel about character X might not be correct. If it's your Original Fiction, you can write what you want without worry because you set the rules. It's not exactly the same when you work in another author's sandbox.
The particular fic was a Riley-bash, set in Riley's POV. One where the author didn't actually ask herself any hard question about his motivation before just defaulting to writing him as a product of her own feelings. Largely without the context that Whedon et al had written for the character.
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Yeah - that's one half of it. The other half being - how I feel about character X might not be correct. If it's your Original Fiction, you can write what you want without worry because you set the rules. It's not exactly the same when you work in another author's sandbox.
The particular fic was a Riley-bash, set in Riley's POV. One where the author didn't actually ask herself any hard question about his motivation before just defaulting to writing him as a product of her own feelings. Largely without the context that Whedon et al had written for the character.