The other half being - how I feel about character X might not be correct.
This is my blurse (blessing/curse), both in real life and in writing fic; I can always see everyone's motivations very clearly, no matter how angrered I may be by their actions. It may take me a little while to get to that point of seeing, but I always get there. So no matter how much I may dislike Riley because he's boring, it doesn't mean he's not a nice guy or that he doesn't have consistency and reasons for all of his actions. I COULD ignore cannon and just make him a one-dimensional vengeance guy, but it would have to be a conscious choice, and I couldn't write something that didn't ring true for me. I wonder sometimes (as in this case), if when people write "bash fic", it's because they honestly see the character as being capable of doing such things. In which case, this means they don't see the character at all, but only themselves projected onto the character. Generally, when people do that, they never even realize they aren't seeing the actual character, which is not only mystifying, but vaguely alarming. Often, stories like this are a window straight into the writer's soul that you'd probably rather not look through.
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.
I agree with this mostly, but there are those original writers who can set up a very one-dimensional character in their own books, just for the sake of carrying out a desired plot. And one dimensional characters are always obvious, and annoying.
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This is my blurse (blessing/curse), both in real life and in writing fic; I can always see everyone's motivations very clearly, no matter how angrered I may be by their actions. It may take me a little while to get to that point of seeing, but I always get there. So no matter how much I may dislike Riley because he's boring, it doesn't mean he's not a nice guy or that he doesn't have consistency and reasons for all of his actions. I COULD ignore cannon and just make him a one-dimensional vengeance guy, but it would have to be a conscious choice, and I couldn't write something that didn't ring true for me. I wonder sometimes (as in this case), if when people write "bash fic", it's because they honestly see the character as being capable of doing such things. In which case, this means they don't see the character at all, but only themselves projected onto the character. Generally, when people do that, they never even realize they aren't seeing the actual character, which is not only mystifying, but vaguely alarming. Often, stories like this are a window straight into the writer's soul that you'd probably rather not look through.
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.
I agree with this mostly, but there are those original writers who can set up a very one-dimensional character in their own books, just for the sake of carrying out a desired plot. And one dimensional characters are always obvious, and annoying.