Comment on Updates to "No Fandom" Additional Tags, September 2026

  1. xxmarvian Fri 25 Sep 2026 05:18PM UTC

    bcs the other commenters explained "haunted by the narrative", i'd say another great example of "doomed by the narrative" are charles xavier (professor x) and eric lehnsherr (magneto) from marvel's x-men! i'm talking about the movies specifically, but if eric hadn't wounded charles and made him paralysed, it wouldn't have kicked off the rest of the story that develops later and (subsequently) we wouldn't know charles as the man in the chair

    same with viktor from "arcane". he is doomed by the narrative in proxy to his ascension to godhood. it's just that, in the series, he finds resolve in that one singular timeline from "all timelines in all possibilities" (because c'mon, they weren't gonna end it on a bad note where everyone's puppets, dead etc). if we disregard that tho, he's an entity which fate has been sealed from the beginning and he (not necessarily the audience) knows that explicitly

    i see this tag being used (primarily) in canon-compliant fics because it's closely related to what happens in canon itself. the narrative can't be changed and it's a done deal for everybody, or else it'd take away from its essence or those of the characters entirely. yet, attempts could be made or the situation could be explored further once the The Thing That Changed Them Forever has happened

    as for non-canon compliant... i suppose it's up to the author to decide what The Thing is. maybe it's a time travel fic where the characters know how the story ends. or the concept of the fic itself makes it so that the characters cannot change the ever-evolving story because they're unable of change themselves

    i love both tags very much and i'm glad they've become canonical! they're perfect when you pair them with "character study", "heavy angst" and/or "hurt/no comfort"

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