I have a lot higher of boundaries in RPF than fake-people-fic; I wouldn't write anything making one of the characters a bad person unless it was at Zombie Piers Morgan levels of cartooniness (flawed's okay, but not bad); and I'd be extremely reluctant to RPF anything with serious long-term damage (I definitely favor stuff where they can get better afterwards.)
With fictional people, I'm not sure what boundaries I have. I can't think of anything where I'd feel it would make a meaningful story but I definitely wouldn't write it. I'm not entirely decided what my worst nightmare is, but there are a few I wouldn't inflict on any character. And the idea of fanficcing the mermaid dream is alternately tempting and seriously creepy.
Mostly I was thinking of this one dream I had. I already told it once to johnnypurple here: http://johnnypurple.livejournal.com/35825.html?thread=396017#t396017 (warning; exceptionally creepy and gruesome). Obviously, not RPF, and it wouldn't fit into canon for every show out there (only ones where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' make sense, for instance). But it's like half a plot, and I'm in way too many fandoms where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' makes sense.
Torchwood? Do all the really nasty stuff to an OC, so I don't feel guilty about beating up on canon characters?
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With fictional people, I'm not sure what boundaries I have. I can't think of anything where I'd feel it would make a meaningful story but I definitely wouldn't write it. I'm not entirely decided what my worst nightmare is, but there are a few I wouldn't inflict on any character. And the idea of fanficcing the mermaid dream is alternately tempting and seriously creepy.
Mostly I was thinking of this one dream I had. I already told it once to johnnypurple here: http://johnnypurple.livejournal.com/35825.html?thread=396017#t396017 (warning; exceptionally creepy and gruesome). Obviously, not RPF, and it wouldn't fit into canon for every show out there (only ones where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' make sense, for instance). But it's like half a plot, and I'm in way too many fandoms where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' makes sense.
Torchwood? Do all the really nasty stuff to an OC, so I don't feel guilty about beating up on canon characters?