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         i wouldn’t call this “fanon”, per se, that annoys me in terms of star saber–  i haven’t really found a take on his character that bugs me in the wider fandom, and i think a lot of it is because of the nature of who he was in victory.  but the thing that does bug me is the fandom opinion that, oh, jro ruined star saber.  that idw star saber is a bad version of the character because he’s not like he was in victory.

sparing everyone the literal thousands of words i could write on this subject, i don’t think a good adaptation of a character needs to be strictly accurate to how they were in the original story, because different stories require characters to play different roles.  that’s one of the major reasons that star saber needed to change in adaptation:  there was no room for him as he appeared in victory to appear in mtmte.  there’s nothing jro could have done to make the original, infallible, unbeatable, not-a-flaw-in-the-goddamn-world star saber work in the context of a story where no one is perfect.  most flaws that jro could have given him in moderation would have just made him into a repeat of characters he already had, like thunderclash, or drift, or cyclonus.

but also, the original star saber wasn’t a great character, i’m sorry.  in fact, i argue that most of the problems with victory as an anime stem from the fact that the anime writers bent over backwards to make star saber perfect.  of course, there are still things i like about him, i don’t think this character was unsalvageable and he doesn’t earn my ire.  but it would be a lie to suggest that a character that’s given no room to be flawed is in any way better than a character that is just oops, all flaw.

idw star saber, as he appears in the comic, serves the themes of the story and moves the plot forward.  he’s also complex in his own right, even with all the cutting jro had to do because he wasn’t given as much time as he thought he would be.  he makes sense as a vilification of the original character:  it’s just that instead of the narrative itself telling him that he is perfect and can do no wrong, it’s that the character himself thinks that he is perfect and can do no wrong.

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@vicsaur​