Fan Fiction Personality Test

Thank-you, bunney, for linking to this meme.

Apparantly, I'm:

The Mindgamer
Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.

Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.

You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?

You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.


So far, so fair enough. The 'what if...' thing is very true, I think, though I think I'm at least equally 'True Fan' - i.e. wanting to keep things canon, and having my main interest in character exploration. Actually, I think most of the time when I indulge in mindgames it's explicitly to explore characterisation. I did say that I didn't have a problem with other people reading slash and mpreg, though, so perhaps that disqualifies me from canon aspirations in this meme-setters view!

The meme results also include cute little graphs showing how your results compare with the maximum and everyone else's.

1) Mind Gamer 80%, higher than 83% of 'peers' (I'm not sure what they mean by 'peers', as I didn't fill in the statistical info at the end apart from my gender. But heck, it's not as if this is so very scientific!)

( 2) The True Fan 74%, higher than 65% of peers )

Actually, I think all of this applies to me more than all of the 'Mind Gamer' description.

( 3) Barely FF 63%, higher than 70% of peers )

*nods* I've enjoyed writing OCs, but my main inspiration has been existing [minor] characters. And I've not had or developed as many original ideas as I'd like. And some fanfic trends are really a mystery to me! I totally get why people are involved with fandom though. (*pets addictive personality quirk*)

I do have an orginal idea in my head at the moment, but it's rather fuzzy - no where near the intensity of interaction I've felt with existing strong characters. And it's analogous to my creativity in other areas, come to that: in work situations, for example, I do tend to be better riffing off others' ideas and gaps in provision than coming up with something totally new.

( 4) Weirdo 57%, higher than 30% of peers )

Yikes, 70% of people are more weird than I am? But fair enough: Lily/Squid was never my thing.

( 5) Slasher 49%, higher than 26% of peers )

I score 49% on slash? Shows what slash-centric circles I hang out in, then - I'm sure I'd come out nearer 10% if compared against the writers I know! (I have written slash subtext, at least, and I do have a slashy plotbunny spinning wheels in my head, but as most of you know it's not exactly my focus.)

( 6) The Immature Kid 42%, higher than 47% of peers )

Well, at least this one comes out at the bottom of the list, and under 50% both for peer comparison and absolute score. But were this in any way serious I'd be a bit piqued at idea that I'm less mature than 47% of fanfic writers! Methinks that the people who write most of the dross on ffnet a) weren't honest with either themselves or the test b) didn't understand the questions and/or c) didn't know how to click a box.


I'd love to know how some of you score/would score yourselves against these categories. I'm not sure where darkfic would fit, for example - I assume somewhere between MindGamer and Slasher (at least in my corner of fandom).