Meeting my maker? Not exactly.
May. 6th, 2011 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyboy_foxIt's been a while since I made a 'crazy fic'kin' post. So it's about time, isn't it? With SoS '11 coming up, and a number of special guests relating to various facets of the Sonic franchise having been announced, I just felt like jotting down my progression of thought regarding said guests. It's under a cut for those who don't care about my inane fic'kin rambling.
I have to admit that my initial reaction to certain announced guests was a thrill of apprehension. As staff, I work in close quarters with the very people who craft and shape the fandom that I align myself with, metaphysically. This year, there are more of those people than ever, and ones closer to my 'source' than ever before. I don't know how many other fic'kin or soulbonds that I know have been in similar circumstances, but it's an odd and unsettling feeling... until you realise that you are taking yourself too seriously.
These are just people. Wonderful talented creative people, but not gods. I am not meeting my maker. I am meeting someone who came up with something very much like the world and/or the people I believe I knew, but I cannot be arrogant enough to think that they made 'me'. I am not special just because I 'remember' a life that is remarkably similar to something created by a man or a team in this world. I would never dare to dream or imply that I am the singular existing realised entity of any of that person or team's creation.
I may believe that I was Tails in another life, but I would never say that I am THE Tails from the video games or the comics or the Saturday morning cartoons. I am, or at least have been, something that allies itself with much of what was created, but I am not arrogant enough to say that I am the one living incarnation of that specific character, nor am I self-effacing enough to say that I am nothing more than a two-dimensional fictional character.
Given that I don't subscribe exactly to any one canon, I guess it's fairly easy for me to rationalise things this way. I think that perhaps Miles was a little more nonplussed by the idea of quite literally meeting the person who created the fictional character he relates so closely to. Unlike me, Miles relates himself almost exactly with the events of the few story issues of the comic that he's in and has vivid memories to go with it. But in the end I know that he doesn't believe for even one moment that he is literally Miles Prower from the Moebius of the comic brought to life from the pages. If anything, his very history has familiarised himself with the idea of multiverses and infinite subtly different versions of one basic idea. After all, even he and I at core are just variations on the same person. A thousand million more of us might exist. We have no celebrity. We are just people. They are just people. There's no need for weirdness.
I may not agree with everything that these creators do, but I accept without question that their canon is THE accepted canon as far as their mainstream presence goes. Anything that I believe to be different is my own peeling off from their canon. The original creator cannot be wrong, for they are the creator. But my deviance from their standard isn't wrong either. It's just that, a deviance. I'm not going to go "Oh no, that's wrong! That's not how it happened!", because if that's how they wrote it, that's their canon and the canon for everyone who follows them. My own canon is mine alone.
With that in mind, I'm less nervous. I'm meeting wonderful creative intelligent people who created a world that something inside of me has seeded itself into and sprouted off from, but I have neither personal debt nor personal grudge to hold against them. I merely thank them for creating something I could relate to, and leave it at that. My world will not have been altered for having met them, but it will be an interesting thing to have done, anyway.
I have to admit that my initial reaction to certain announced guests was a thrill of apprehension. As staff, I work in close quarters with the very people who craft and shape the fandom that I align myself with, metaphysically. This year, there are more of those people than ever, and ones closer to my 'source' than ever before. I don't know how many other fic'kin or soulbonds that I know have been in similar circumstances, but it's an odd and unsettling feeling... until you realise that you are taking yourself too seriously.
These are just people. Wonderful talented creative people, but not gods. I am not meeting my maker. I am meeting someone who came up with something very much like the world and/or the people I believe I knew, but I cannot be arrogant enough to think that they made 'me'. I am not special just because I 'remember' a life that is remarkably similar to something created by a man or a team in this world. I would never dare to dream or imply that I am the singular existing realised entity of any of that person or team's creation.
I may believe that I was Tails in another life, but I would never say that I am THE Tails from the video games or the comics or the Saturday morning cartoons. I am, or at least have been, something that allies itself with much of what was created, but I am not arrogant enough to say that I am the one living incarnation of that specific character, nor am I self-effacing enough to say that I am nothing more than a two-dimensional fictional character.
Given that I don't subscribe exactly to any one canon, I guess it's fairly easy for me to rationalise things this way. I think that perhaps Miles was a little more nonplussed by the idea of quite literally meeting the person who created the fictional character he relates so closely to. Unlike me, Miles relates himself almost exactly with the events of the few story issues of the comic that he's in and has vivid memories to go with it. But in the end I know that he doesn't believe for even one moment that he is literally Miles Prower from the Moebius of the comic brought to life from the pages. If anything, his very history has familiarised himself with the idea of multiverses and infinite subtly different versions of one basic idea. After all, even he and I at core are just variations on the same person. A thousand million more of us might exist. We have no celebrity. We are just people. They are just people. There's no need for weirdness.
I may not agree with everything that these creators do, but I accept without question that their canon is THE accepted canon as far as their mainstream presence goes. Anything that I believe to be different is my own peeling off from their canon. The original creator cannot be wrong, for they are the creator. But my deviance from their standard isn't wrong either. It's just that, a deviance. I'm not going to go "Oh no, that's wrong! That's not how it happened!", because if that's how they wrote it, that's their canon and the canon for everyone who follows them. My own canon is mine alone.
With that in mind, I'm less nervous. I'm meeting wonderful creative intelligent people who created a world that something inside of me has seeded itself into and sprouted off from, but I have neither personal debt nor personal grudge to hold against them. I merely thank them for creating something I could relate to, and leave it at that. My world will not have been altered for having met them, but it will be an interesting thing to have done, anyway.
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Date: 2011-05-06 12:59 am (UTC)This makes me wonder...Wasn't Ian Flynn a Sonic satAM fan back in the day? I feel like I've read his fanfiction before.
And...you ever wanna compare notes on canons? It might be fun.
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Date: 2011-05-06 01:07 am (UTC)He wrote fanfic, yeah. His most famous fan-material is his comic, Mobius: Other M. He used a lot of elements from it in the official comic, later.
Comparing notes on canon would be interesting and a lot of fun (: I'd totally be up for that!
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Date: 2011-05-06 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-06 09:47 am (UTC)Also, before I knew of the existence of the comic and only knew SatAM, I was certain that in my reality Knuckles and Amy were there too, and then I found that they were alongside the SatAM cast in the comic. But again, it's certainly not outside the realms of likelyhood for the comic to decide to include SEGA's other main characters who weren't in the old TV show.
Probably the most unlikely one is when the comics showed that Knuckles and Sally were childhood friends and that they almost had a romantic relationship, which oddly enough is exactly how it went in my canon. But once more, it could easily be odd coincidence. I don't think I have any real connection to much of what is going on now; my canon seems to have split off pretty early on, but who knows? Anything could happen.
I AM interested to see what happens in the next SU arc, though, given that Scourge and Miles subscribe almost exactly to canon so far... so it'll be interesting to see if anything that happens in the prison arc rings true for Scourge, based on the things he's said he remembers from the No Zone.
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