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AegisP Since: Oct, 2014
2019-08-24 03:25:03

I agree.

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GastonRabbit MOD (General of TV Troops)
2019-08-24 05:30:49

My opinion of this is similar to my opinion of Unintentional Period Piece's No Recent Examples, Please! requirements. In both cases, the special circumstances behind exceptions (particularly dark adaptations of already dark works for Dark Fic, and unusual circumstances for Unintentional Period Piece examples from more than a decade ago) are so subjective (neither Dark Fic nor Unintentional Period Piece is YMMV) that I don't think they're easy to decide.

Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010
2019-08-24 14:50:17

I've always understood the term Dark Fic to refer to making a cheerful canon work dark. The kind of things in the OP are dark fics, but they're not Dark Fic as I generally see the term used.

Willbyr MOD (Y2K)
2019-08-27 12:24:01

The thing with Dark Fics of already dark series is whether or not they actually make things worse than in canon and do it in a way that works as a story. I've read a number of Evangelion dark fics, including Aoi and Scar Tissue and several by Adam Kadmon, and I can say with 100% certainty that for the good ones, on a 1-10 scale of darkness, if the original series rates a 3-4, these are at least a 6-7.

As for the example itself, I think calling NGE the "poster boy of darkness" is a stretch, considering titles like Berserk.

Edited by Willbyr
Reymma Since: Feb, 2015
2019-08-27 14:12:08

Evangelion is more bleak than dark. It's not that things are all that bad (at least on-screen), but there is a sense throughout that the cast will always sabotage their own success.

But I would support limiting the examples to fics that change the tone of the material, rather than emphasise what is already there.

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