User blog:SentaiRiderFan/Fanfic cliches: Static sisters

First a fanfic, and now a blog. And then to think I would never use my blogspace here.

Anyway, onto the topic. Much has been said already about cliches within the Loud House fandom, like the nice sisters vs mean sisters, Saint Lincoln etc. But one that hasn’t been brought up that much is a cliche I dubbed ‘the static sisters trap’. And it basically comes down to fans assuming that the Loud Sisters have always been the way they are now, and will always continue to be like that.



This problem manifests itself whenever a story is set several years before or after the canon series, uses a flashback/flashforward, or even when the characters simply mention past events. Pick such a story at random, and chances are that you see Luna has always had a thing for music, Luan was always into comedy, Leni was always into fashion, etc. While I understand why writers choose to do this (it makes it a lot easier to write your stories after all), it’s not very realistic. Children’s’ hobbies and interests can change drastically over time. In Luna’s case, it’s even proven in canon that, no, she wasn’t always a musician. In fact, her passion for music didn’t come untill she was in seventh grade. So what was she like before that? Did she have other kinds of hobbies? It’s a pitty so little fanfic writers picked up on this and tried to explore Luna’s younger days, and instead simply pretend she always had a thing for music. The same goes the other way around; Lola may be into beauty pageants now, but how long can/will she continue to do this? Sooner or later she will be too old for those junior pageants (not sure what the age limit is), and then what? Likewise, she can’t continue to dress like a princess forever. It maybe cute now that she’s 6, but what when she turns 10, or 16?.



That is one thing I like so much about the story Gaping Memories by Omega Ultra; in this story, Lynn reveals that she was quite a girly girl who loved dresses untill she disocvered sports and became the tomboy we know her to be in the show. The same issue is also adressed by That Engineer in the latest chapter of his story Syngenesophobia.



But that is just my opinon. What do you think?

