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Ah, cynicism.
Oct. 24th, 2011 10:37 amPlaying Hamilton Burger in an RP, I get to portray his canonical skepticism over anything bizarre. It's a blast.
And I realized something. Skeptics/cynics are among my favorite character types to play, because they largely reflect my own views. I believe in a few supernatural things, mainly ghosts and their sub-category of evil spirits. I believe in aliens too, and if one wants to call God, the Devil, angels, and miracles supernatural, then those as well. But beyond that I rarely believe in anything supernatural and bill it all as superstitious nonsense. I also, for the life of me, do not understand what's so great about magic and generally go to great lengths to have logic and science a large part of things instead---unless I simply can't get around magic, such as with YGO and Princess Tutu and some others.
I don't think I've ever mentioned this before, but as much as I love Autor and relate to him on many levels, I had to struggle sometimes to remember to write him as fully believing in the oddness that permeated Kinkan Town, as my natural instinct was for the character to be very skeptical.
That's one of the big reasons why Batman is one of the only superheroes I really like, because he's all about the logic and science. He doesn't have superpowers to fight the bad guys; he relies on his own strength and mind. I love it.
And it's also one reason why I don't like crossing a lot of fandoms over, particularly in fics. If I cross a supernatural fandom with a realistic fandom, then I have to force the skeptics to believe in the supernatural somewhere along the way. Otherwise, their skepticism just becomes irritating and exasperating after a while. But I hate having to force them to believe in something that I personally deem absolute nonsense. I often end up thinking "I don't want this to be true in this fandom, since it would be impossible in this other fandom and in real-life." I think that a lot about the oddball things that get stolen on Carmen Sandiego, for instance. It makes perfect sense there, but honestly, nowhere else. Trying to convince Hamilton Burger that a building can be walked off with is both hilarious and brain-breaking at the same time.
And I realized something. Skeptics/cynics are among my favorite character types to play, because they largely reflect my own views. I believe in a few supernatural things, mainly ghosts and their sub-category of evil spirits. I believe in aliens too, and if one wants to call God, the Devil, angels, and miracles supernatural, then those as well. But beyond that I rarely believe in anything supernatural and bill it all as superstitious nonsense. I also, for the life of me, do not understand what's so great about magic and generally go to great lengths to have logic and science a large part of things instead---unless I simply can't get around magic, such as with YGO and Princess Tutu and some others.
I don't think I've ever mentioned this before, but as much as I love Autor and relate to him on many levels, I had to struggle sometimes to remember to write him as fully believing in the oddness that permeated Kinkan Town, as my natural instinct was for the character to be very skeptical.
That's one of the big reasons why Batman is one of the only superheroes I really like, because he's all about the logic and science. He doesn't have superpowers to fight the bad guys; he relies on his own strength and mind. I love it.
And it's also one reason why I don't like crossing a lot of fandoms over, particularly in fics. If I cross a supernatural fandom with a realistic fandom, then I have to force the skeptics to believe in the supernatural somewhere along the way. Otherwise, their skepticism just becomes irritating and exasperating after a while. But I hate having to force them to believe in something that I personally deem absolute nonsense. I often end up thinking "I don't want this to be true in this fandom, since it would be impossible in this other fandom and in real-life." I think that a lot about the oddball things that get stolen on Carmen Sandiego, for instance. It makes perfect sense there, but honestly, nowhere else. Trying to convince Hamilton Burger that a building can be walked off with is both hilarious and brain-breaking at the same time.
