#it's fine if you agree with the fandom consensus after you've given it some thought of your own

[gamebunny-advance]

I Feel Like Explaining This A Bit (Scrapped)

No one was asking, but I’ve had it on my mind for a bit.

So, when I say I reject the 10/10 fanon names out of spite, that’s only half true. The spite part comes from my assertion that I refuse to let any fandom change how I choose to interpret the text. I don’t want to get caught up in that kind of nonsense. If you use 'em, and you like ‘em, that’s fine. I don’t have anything against you. This isn’t a “me vs. sheeple” kinda thing. I recognize the usefulness and utility of giving them names: it makes it easier to refer to them individually, and it’s a little more humanizing to call them by the fanon names rather than their hair colors, but that’s the other half of why I reject them: giving them individual names humanizes them.

Although I like some interpretations where 1010 are individuals (one of my own AUs revolves around that idea), part of their appeal to me is that they’re lifeless mass-produced robots. I just think that’s a more interesting theme to explore than just letting them be pretty boys at face value. Again, there’s nothing “wrong” with that, but it’s not what I like, so it’s not what I do.

#gbunny scraps #1010 desynchronized #nsr #kinda? it's tangentially related #of course whether it's irony or just how the fandom is #generally my most popular nsr posts are the 1010s standing pretty #like the malt shop series that i still want to finish #i don't mind stuff being cute for the sake of itself #but i like doing other things too #one time i saw someone post something along the lines of: #OMG the fanon names are real?! #when they discovered the nameplates in-game #and i'm just like #no the fandom names came from an interpretation of the name plates #it's stuff like that happening that i want to avoid #anything that a fandom does to keep the fans from thinking on their own i consider a negative #it's fine if you agree with the fandom consensus after you've given it some thought of your own #but then some fandom things get so ingrained as canon that people don't bother to question it and treat it as fact #this is a very small and insignificant example but this kinda stuff happens at the larger scale too