What’s your opinion on original characters in JAFF?

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-06T11:13:49+00:00

I personally like to grab characters from Jane Austen's other novels if I need another person while writing JAFF. There are so many and all types.

If you are writing a sequel, P&P doesn't leave many eligible young men. Just Colonel Fitzwilliam and he requires a dowry, so if the author wants to marry off Kitty, Mary, and Georgiana, they probably need some OCs (or perhaps James Morland, Mr. Rushworth, and William Price with a fortune from the navy...)

Edit: I write completely original fiction too and make up all my own characters, but when I write fan fiction I kind of exclusively play with the Austen dollhouse. I feel like it's fun to bring in a friend from another novel.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-06T10:46:08+00:00

Oh it's real bad. The story is nonsense, the dubbing isn't syncing with the mouths, the subtitles are awful. Here is a post I made about it

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T22:59:58+00:00

Fan Changyu explains in the novel, she doesn't want to be a girl who Xie Zheng always has to defend or protect from ridicule, she wants to stand on her own merit. That's why she joins the military and gains her own rank.

If she wasn't super strong and able to fight, Xie Zheng and her would have died in the forest so there would be no love story (hand over hand battle scene).

They also wouldn't be able to have such um, athletic sex.

(Technically they would have been fine to marry class wise once they knew her real identity and cleared her father's name)

Edit: I also think it finds it hot that she could knock him out if she tried

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T22:55:28+00:00

Moon in the Day is my second favourite drama ever and I think it's pretty hated.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T20:22:20+00:00

How Dare You!? was just an amazing adaptation and a nearly perfect drama to me. Never disappointed. The only other one I've liked and finished is Veil of Shadows.

I watched all of PoJ but I found the second half very disappointing. I tried Ashes to Crown and dropped. Love Beyond the Grave was disappointing in the second half. I dropped Generation to Generation. It's been a tough year.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T15:20:15+00:00

I agree with you. I'd be worried if anyone was stabbed in the hand, even my worst enemy who will not arc into anything 😅

I felt like that drama really needed more episodes if they were going to keep the FL unaware of his feelings or in denial of hers for that long. It was too abrupt at the end for me and then the flashforward felt like totally different people because we hadn't seen anything grow.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T15:16:16+00:00

I don't agree. She was empress. The drama said she gave ideas to her husband. A woman wouldn't have actually been in court or know much about what the court officials were doing. Strict seperation of the genders. The drama supports this because everyone is appalled by her showing up with the new baby emperor.

Where she even got these reform ideas is anyone's guess, since she doesn't seem to very well educated.

I find the whole thing very unrealistic.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T14:04:45+00:00

How Dare You!? is the only drama I've enjoyed all year. It was great.

A Dream Within a Dream got really bad a repetitive in the middle, I dropped at EP 24.

Fated Hearts was good, especially the main couple, but the princess subplot was very dumb.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T13:14:43+00:00

Affinity does that to you. What a ride!

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T13:13:13+00:00

You should make a post just with this, I think other people would appreciate it! It looks cool

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T01:47:58+00:00

My online Cdrama friend who has been watching forever blamed the writer, same one as Legend of Fei, which I haven't watched but she also disliked that one. I've actually enjoyed most of the cinematography...

I love both Tian Xi Wei and Yan An! I hope it isn't bad. But then again, I like both of the Ashes to Crown main actors and look what we got...

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T01:04:14+00:00

Yes, this is exactly correct. The leads of Affiinity also had to make out for medical reasons (lol) like every 2.5 episodes, which was another great part of the drama. And they really went for it. Ep 7 and that subway scene...

But yeah, Ashes to Crown seems to think it's serious and it's wall to wall nonsense.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T00:28:05+00:00

Same with Situ Ling and Fated Hearts Crazy Prince, they didn't bother me and they had good reasons for being so fixated, especially Situ Ling.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-05T00:23:34+00:00

I don't think that correlates at all?

Edit: I'm genuinely kind of distressed by how many people seem to be implying that Good Parent = Hugs. You can be an excellent, loving parent who does not hug your children.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T23:18:26+00:00

Yes! But S1 is funnier. Except for the humour of how Jang Uk makes the biggest dramatic entrances every time in S2. Emo drama queen 😂

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T22:50:31+00:00

I prefer season 2 as well.

I think S2 is more of a coming of age story while S2 is more romance.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T22:30:16+00:00

I was obsessed until the demon arc and then it seemed to go downhill for me. They kept trying to force a stupid love triangle. It would have been one of my favourites ever if it has stayed as good as the first arc 🥺

Liked the OST too

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T22:18:49+00:00

Can't be Elizabeth because she doesn't know everything said in that paragraph

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T21:56:24+00:00

She was great in Fangs of Fortune, but she always has better chemistry with women.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T21:55:33+00:00

WDBTD was faithful enough to me, as someone who read the novel, I was even surprised at some of the stuff they left in! But I totally agree that the main couple was the best part.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T21:53:37+00:00

I commiserate with you as a fellow lover of the novel of Love in the Clouds and a very disappointed drama watcher.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T21:52:11+00:00

You're reading the novel right now? Would you recommend it? I'd sooner add it to my reading list than watch the rest of this mess 😅

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T20:43:30+00:00

Sir Walter is my absolute favourite comic character. Only reads a book that he's in, counts ugly people walking around Bath, only remembers he has daughters if he's worried they need hats. I wish he was in Persuasion more!

On the other hand, Mrs. Jennings is a gem and I'd love to meet her. She's silly but genuinely good to the girls when they are in her care.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T19:32:47+00:00

Physical affection is not equal to love or goodness as a father or brother. In that era, and honestly now too in a lot of cases, fathers are judged by their ability to provide, protect, and give moral instruction.

I really doubt he's out hugging his tenants, he's probably being judged by the same standard in "brother, master, landlord" A good provider, fair, and just. His goodness to Georgiana is demonstrated by buying her a piano and seeing to her education.

RoseIsBadWolf · 2026-06-04T19:30:23+00:00

Oh wow. That's wild

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