You're insulting the writers whom you claim to love!
Why yes, that is a fanfic authors' intent! We hate the way that the Original Writer has written the character(s), we hate their scenes, the background story, the world in which they live. They are awful, awful creations (hardly worth publication!) and our intent, our goal as fanfic writers is to Do It Better Than They Have. We see the tragic characters in their tragically written worlds and get this undeniable urge to create a better world, better characterisation, better plots! That is why we devote hours to reading the books and watching the television shows and movies: To see How Not To Write These Characters. It has nothing to do with love of the characters, connection with them, understanding and interest in their situations and worlds. It has nothing to do with entertaining ourselves during canon downtime (waiting for the next book or season or movie) with What Ifs, and everything to do with how we loath those books, tv shows and movies, and how we, as students, cafe workers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, mothers, checkout operators, retail specialists, nurses, fathers etc need to give the writers of popular entertainment a nice big F**k You Very Much in the form of fanfiction. Fan is short for fanatical, and it's not the created canon of books and media that we're fanatical about, but our own efforts to give the creators the Big Finger.
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Why yes, that is a fanfic authors' intent! We hate the way that the Original Writer has written the character(s), we hate their scenes, the background story, the world in which they live. They are awful, awful creations (hardly worth publication!) and our intent, our goal as fanfic writers is to Do It Better Than They Have. We see the tragic characters in their tragically written worlds and get this undeniable urge to create a better world, better characterisation, better plots! That is why we devote hours to reading the books and watching the television shows and movies: To see How Not To Write These Characters. It has nothing to do with love of the characters, connection with them, understanding and interest in their situations and worlds. It has nothing to do with entertaining ourselves during canon downtime (waiting for the next book or season or movie) with What Ifs, and everything to do with how we loath those books, tv shows and movies, and how we, as students, cafe workers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, mothers, checkout operators, retail specialists, nurses, fathers etc need to give the writers of popular entertainment a nice big F**k You Very Much in the form of fanfiction. Fan is short for fanatical, and it's not the created canon of books and media that we're fanatical about, but our own efforts to give the creators the Big Finger.