I guess you could consider me a bisexual when it comes to this. I like both, but I lean more towards fanfiction. Not sure why. I just like it better.
Fanfiction:
Pros: You already know what the character looks like. You know a lot about their personality (unless the author's version of them is completely different), and they're not like meeting a new person, a stranger. It's just a bit more comfortable. And the author doesn't have to explain their eye color, hair, etc. I find that fanfiction is easier to get into.
Cons: You can't really come up with your own image of them. Some people like that, some don't. For me, I like knowing exactly what they look like. I just get better images in my head when I know that. And some people don't like certain couples together. For example: Some people hate Frerards (Frank Iero and Gerard Way). And a lot of the time in fanfiction you're sort of limited to things. You can't pick a name for them, or anything... And I've noticed fanfiction tends to be...more crappy quality. Sorry, but it's true. There is definetley some amazing fanfiction out there, but a lot of the time it's just really horribly written. Like my story, for example.
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Original Fiction:
Pros: You get to create your own little person. You can control absolutely anything about them, which is really cool. It makes the author look a little more...creative, I suppose. It's...well, original. You don't have to do the stupid little disclaimer thingy at the bottom.
Cons: I find it hard to understand original characters, a lot of the time (not all of the time). Usually this is because that it's not well-written. They're completely new to me, and I just don't know who they are. Most of the time it's really awkward in stories, I think, because the author either tries too hard to explain them, or not hard enough. In original fiction I just can't keep interested as much as I can with fanfiction. It's weird, but that's probably just me. Oh, and another thing, original fiction almost always has stupid, outrageous, pathetic looking scene kids as the characters.
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What do you think?
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