Fan fiction and You.

[Mervi]

Sorry to resurrect such an old topic, but I recently had the misfortune to stumble upon a Redwall fanfic... involving the main character (Who is a child - the books are also for children, incidentally) from one of the books getting anally raped by the villain. It's apparently meant to be arousing. I... er... ew?

I don't want to know want kind of person could be behind such a fic.

Well, there's a pretty strong argument out there among the fic folks that not ALL such fic is meant to be arousing, but instead the authors are often trying to deal with things that have been done to them/someone they know in the past. That it can be therapeutic to write that into a form of fiction and get comments/feedback on it. Or that it's simply a theme the writer wants to explore. After all, these things occur in "real" literature as well. (I still can't think about the ending of the first Fionavar book without feeling disgusted. )

Still, I do think it's problematic they use established characters to do it.