It's been going on five years since I read Iolokus, but I took to it like an addictive substance. I'm the opposite of you on this one, write_out. I had no problem accepting Iolokus' Scully, but ATCAI's Scully is just not for me. Which is not to say the Iolokus characterizations weren't disturbing, and different from my own idea of Mulder and Scully - they were. But ATCAI Scully doesn't just have differences, I feel like she is fundimentally different than my Scully.
I've always found the idea of "character integrity" really interesting. It's what I think of as the thing that determines, for each fanfic reader, whether the character will be essentially within the bounds of character, or outside of those bounds. But because each reader has a different idea of what consitutes character integrity (which is, I believe, closely tied into how we individually perceive integrity in the real world), we end up with dispute, even amongst the most open-minded of readers, as to what is within the bounds of the character, and what isn't. For me, ATCAI Scully lacks character integrity. I can't love this Scully, though she bears the Scully name, and though I would rather love her than be estranged from her. Not so with Iolokus Scully, though her differences from canon Scully are - to my judgment - even greater than ATCAI's Scully.
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It's been going on five years since I read Iolokus, but I took to it like an addictive substance. I'm the opposite of you on this one,
I've always found the idea of "character integrity" really interesting. It's what I think of as the thing that determines, for each fanfic reader, whether the character will be essentially within the bounds of character, or outside of those bounds. But because each reader has a different idea of what consitutes character integrity (which is, I believe, closely tied into how we individually perceive integrity in the real world), we end up with dispute, even amongst the most open-minded of readers, as to what is within the bounds of the character, and what isn't. For me, ATCAI Scully lacks character integrity. I can't love this Scully, though she bears the Scully name, and though I would rather love her than be estranged from her. Not so with Iolokus Scully, though her differences from canon Scully are - to my judgment - even greater than ATCAI's Scully.