Your result for The Fan Fiction Personality Test...

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.

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I see it pretty well. It really depends, though... I haven't written hundreds of fanfictions, and the things that I have written it for vastly differ. From Serial Experiments Lain, to SAW, to Adventures in Wonderland, to Paper Mario, to Sesame Street!

Although what I find funny about my fanfiction is that it seemed just to be a gate way to writing original fiction. Because instead of get really into writing for characters IN the show or movie or whatever that it was from, I'd just love the atmosphere or the setting, and place my own people in it. I did that with SELS, Paper Mario, and partly with Huggle the Puppet and The Pooptrix. And Wooden Light... it became so complicated and had such a small tie with SAW, it became (or at least is well on its way to becoming) original.

Big Bird seems to show up in my work... o_o

So I think I've often used fanfiction as a means to be creative when I was inspired by something. It's only been in the past year that I have really written it out of total obsession for something and wanting to write about those characters alone, although I still come up with odd blot bunnies. (for everything else, I have the show!)

This quiz gave me a 93rd percentile in Free Mind (like I was saying above), and 80th percentile in True Fan (staying in canon and in character), and I agree there too, mostly. At first glance, "wait, why did Alice just use the f word", but past the language... I promise... I try very hard to make people act as they should. I want it to be that person and for what they do and say to remind you of them. Otherwise, what's the point?

But I think there's an extent to which being a canon writer is agreeable. As one who values creativity and signature, I don't find it very appealing when someone's just trying to replicate the source material, and even boring. You have a chance to put your own twist on things. No matter what you do, you won't be the real writer, so don't try. Be free.