Speculate how the fandom would Rule 34 your hypothetical series

hmmmm, I'll likely attract the Yoai Fangirls in droves....

I mean, Cute Shotaro Boy who relies completely on Hot-Blooded Mr. Fanservice...

My God, What Have I Done?

CAUSE EVERY GIRL IS CRAZY 'BOUT A SHARP DRESSED MAN

I'm hopeful that my two main character wont be shipped because of how cliched it would be. Jeth hes a roguish “cowboy”(my setting is a fantasy world going through an industrial revolution) whose protecting and guiding Anea( shes Elven nobility) through the industrial world. I guess the yaoi incest fangirls might ship two side characters who are half-brothers, but ones an orc and other half-orc(though he doesn’t look it, think tragic mulatto) so that might discourage them.

edited 12th Sep '10 10:59:21 AM by GenericGuy

"If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you." —Don Marquis

It's probably best to assume any and all characters will be shipped y'all.

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Probably a lot, and badly. Though the story doesn't focus on relationships that much, there's daydream-validating Postmodernism going on. (And someone might experiment with Bizarre Alien Biology to boot. Not sure about that scene yet.)

edited 12th Sep '10 11:02:06 AM by Yej

Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.

Oh, boy. With all the relationships that go on in my serial, there would be a lot of this. So many in fact, that I have a running Love Chart in my notes...

Fetish fuel is taken pretty literally as a trope; in fact, I think it might be hard to find anything totally vanilla in this piece, so there you have the demographic behind the Rule 34. There would be plenty of just taking what's already in the story and pushing it all the way past worksafety. The mind meld machine's exploitability for this is even lampshaded.

I'd expect to see plenty of yaoi fangirls attracted, too, perhaps writing about canon ships because there are plenty of those to satisfy them.

Any ship that is Aubrey x [person who is neither underage nor related to him] is probably canon in one way or another. The same goes for Kenichi, but with only female partners. And speaking of Kenichi, he might be automatic Mr. Fanservice on account of being bishounen enough. He'd also likely be cast as everyone's sub—fine; it's canon.

Anyone who applies Draco in Leather Pants to Lux II or Vox clearly does not know who they are talking about. Anyone who incest-ships Lux II and Vox and concludes the fic with anything less than mutual fiery murder of the gratuitousness of the climax of Inglourious Basterds clearly does not know who they are talking about. Anything short of an Earth-Shattering Kaboom as a result is pushing it, even. Yes, materials with Earth-Shattering Kaboom capability are canon.

There are no bad excuses to ship Corvus with anyone. However, Demetrius's mutations forcing him to be painfully sexually repressed is not a good excuse to have him lusting after relatives, women or inanimate objects.

edited 12th Sep '10 4:55:23 PM by harmattane

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Due to the nonstop Ho Yay and Foe Yay going on at the moment and the crossdressing hero, most people will probably enjoy my Horny Devil and her bondage problem, and they would ship the Bait-and-Switch Lesbians cyborgs and get the wrong idea, as well as shipping the Estrogen Bait. There is no fanservice in my series unfortunately

In an anime, I'll be the Tsundere Dark Magical Girl who likes purple MY own profile is actually HERE!

For all the "hi-tech squad gets into deep shit with Nazis/North Korea/Insert Strawman Country Here" series that bubble in my head, there'd no doubt be endless crack pairings/crack fic/yaoi pairings between the members of the squad. The doujinshi would probably get the female members into some sort of hideous gang bang orgy.

I'd fire back with an omake of all the hideously ugly/fat members prancing around to the tune of Peaches's Fuck The Pain Away, but I know it'll be useless.

Half-Life: Dual Nature, a crossover story of reasonably sized proportions.

Well, I have a Sibling Team. That's like an open invitation for incest fics, I think.

Probably should get working on that essay now...

... you mean you all don't already Rule 34 your own fiction? Or is that just me?

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It's just you.

Unless you count what goes through our minds as Rule 34.

If people learned from their mistakes, there wouldn't be this thing called bad habits.

I was mostly talking about what goes through my mind, though I have written out in full various sexual scenes that will not be in the final version.

A brighter future for a darker age.

It's not just you (and Edmania is probably not the best source), but fandom is bound to have much more bizarre ideas for porn of a given work than the original author, unless the original author is themselves the kind of crazy person who could come up with the kind of stuff Rule 34 can entail... that kind of craziness is the purpose of this thread.

edited 13th Sep '10 10:26:22 AM by AsTheAnointed

Because I choose to.

I'd hope that my hoof-toed, vaguely reptilian humanoid iron woobie would become the fandom bicycle. For everything and anyone. He's pretty and he walks to the road to hell paved by good intentions. H/C fic to the max. ...and my hoof-toe fetish must be spread!!

In a more squicky variation, I'm sure fandom would have my accidental necromancer accidentally raise something that sexes him up. ...actually, now that I've thought of it I might do it myself. Ewww...

edited 13th Sep '10 11:20:09 AM by Bur

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I suspect that the different sex roles in place in Arden, where many of my main characters are from, will provide fetish fuel for those who are into femdom. It's a female-dominated society where the men outnumber the women by more than 2 to 1 (they're not quite human). Despite the fetish potential, it's not something I'm actually that interested in pursuing in the story myself.

The military are mostly men, giving the opportunity for lots of teh gay. Which happens.

edited 13th Sep '10 2:41:28 PM by Morven

A brighter future for a darker age.

Nope. At least, though what is actually shown in the writing is moderate, I'm not at all shy about the fact that a metric fuckton of bizarre material for this can be found behind the scenes. Considering how the setting works, most anything that even the most cloudcuckoolander-ish fan could think of would be workable in it.

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Somehow I suspect someone will get off on the idea that, if there are not enough people in the local area, the draining of life-force done instinctually by my Eternals (undead) may kill the ones being drained.

What bothers me about that, I guess, is that Anhelia (my main Eternal character) would be absolutely horrified by doing that. She goes to great lengths to ensure it doesn't happen, that there's no danger of it.

A brighter future for a darker age.

Oh god... My graphic novel Right Red Hand is full of opportunities for Rule 34. 0_0 There's a One-Gender Race of insect people, dullhan, who's heads aren't attached to their bodies, undine, who are more amphibian than anything, a lolicon sylph who has great trust and a strong friendship with a male human over twice her age. Eek.

I've returned from the depths to continue politely irritating the good people of TV Tropes.(◕‿◕✿)

Giant Hellenistic mechs doing the funky and their ejaculation is steam.

Righty-ho, here we go...

• Planned story about an accountant for the Irish mob getting hopelessly out of depth in the Crystal Spires and Togas Magitek metropolis of Moscow: Well, I've got a prime target for Self-Fanservice in Vittoria, who is (a) a hulking, mutated, barely-human killing machine who tends to bring the Body Horror in bucketloads when she gets into a fight, and (b) the female romantic lead. So... yeah, I'm anticipating instant transformation into a Cute Monster Girl there, immediately followed by exploiting her abilities to their fullest potential. Goddamnit, Internet.

• Planned story about secret identities, magical doppelgangers, and the everyday stress of being a Magical Girl in a losing war: I'd expect the fans to pick up on the Les Yay vibe between the embittered heroine and her professional double. Given that the latter makes extraordinary sacrifices to save and redeem the former after a PTSD-induced Face–Heel Turn, and enters her body at one point, it shouldn't be too hard.

• Planned story deconstructing the Magical Girl genre in general and the Sailor Moon variant of Magic Warrior in particular: I don't even want to contemplate it. I've given the fans far too much ammunition as it is without further suggestions. That's what happens when you decide to lampoon the Playing to the Fetishes aspects of the genre, I guess.

edited 14th Sep '10 1:57:40 PM by Iaculus

What's precedent ever done for us?

Over a long and very painful period of time, I trained myself to not be Squicked over any shipping or Rule 34 of my characters, no matter how bizarre.

Then again, I write about furry characters (though I personally hate that term), so all bets are off.

...If I were more arrogant or hadn't been around the internet so long, I'd be terrified to distribute my work in any way, shape, or form.

Real life has become a mountain that must be conquered epically. Cutting back on intarwebz for a bit.

I'm actually not sure why anyone would be bothered by someone Rule 34ing their characters. It's just stupid fun.

Or do I not care about my characters enough?

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Indeed, it is stupid fun... except when your characters are involved in a fic so transcendently horrible that you wake up at one in the morning thinking 'Ye gods - I helped let that into the world', of course.

edited 14th Sep '10 7:10:57 PM by Iaculus

What's precedent ever done for us?

Eh, maybe...although if my work led to something like My Immortal I think I'd be highly amused.

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^ If I got a My Immortal style fic going around, first I'd say the MST3K Mantra and then see if it was hilarious.