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13) Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Regarding the first question, I tend to see fanon as building on canon rather than replacing it, so I'm not inclined to pick sides as the question seems to want me to.

The second question seems to be a wider version of question 7. Just as writing a character in a fanfic requires me to think about how and why they behave, the same is true for other aspects of a show's mechanism. When I was writing Ac Velut in Somnis, for example, I had to give myself a clear mental model of what rules the Knightmare dungeon operated under, what geographical relationship it had to Treguard's castle, and come up with a good reason why it was necessary for Rose and Lynda to wear Helmets of Justice. And (hopefully) avoid perpetrating infodumps in which I explained all the rules I'd just come up with.

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