>>60983190Well, you could always start out by writing about vtubers you do know well. But being "accurate" to the character isn't that crucial for multiple reasons:
- We only see vtubers while they are streaming to a large audience but almost all fics feature them in other situations, so "they aren't like that on stream" isn't a universal problem
- Vtubing as a medium - through its combination of a real person, and a character with "lore", and memes/tropes that the community associates with them - usually leads to a pretty large and diverse mix of character traits you can use, but don't have to
- Most of your audience only has a surface-level understanding of the vtuber as well, so they won't really notice a simplified and flanderized portrayal (if they care in the first place)
- Various fanfic scenarios only work if you write the character a certain way (like wanting sex with men, being in high school, existing in a new fantasy world...) and readers accept that
- Specifically for chuubas who don't speak English much, you're basically "translating" everything they say which gives you wiggle room on speech patterns, catchphrases etc.
You can write Mio as a shrine-guardian (with Fubuki or not), a fortune-teller/witch, an aging woman desperate for marriage and children, Ayame's and Subaru's mother, a kemonomimi girl in heat, a mature teacher and more while still being "accurate" to some part of her - and it's obviously not sensible to include all of these aspects. In fact, /wg/ is even open to scenarious that go against an established character as long as it's made clear and is core to the premise. Even if you were unable to stick to the most basic of characterization (which you aren't) and wrote Mio like Rushia - if you said that it was a yandere, traumatized Mio it wouldn't be a big deal, really. There's room for "inaccurate" fanfics, to show characters changed in a way that gives them a new, interesting twist.
