WarChild said:
But why treat it as the most important thing in life? Really, it's like shipping.
Seriously, the more I see you harp on this, I am believing this is the only meaning of your life.
That's because it
is one of the most important things in fanfiction. It's one of the biggest differences between a good fic and a bad fic.
Firstly, characterization is
nothing like shipping, which is completely optional and frequently inappropriate for a number of story types. Squeezing a ship into a fic without tying it into the plot somehow is a very easy way to fuck up an otherwise good series.
Good characterization is essential for all fics. Even Ero-Sennin has good characterization for the characters in BDSM in that he makes it clear right away that he's taking lots of creative liberties with the characters of Usagi and the rest; he deliberately divorces his characters away from the canon characters, and then he makes them internally consistent. This is how you use "bad" characterization properly in a comedy/parody fic.
Bissek's work, on the other hand, is not comedy. When bissek writes Luna being a bitch and jumping to conclusions every five minutes, or when he writes the Senshi acting like thugs to get Fate away from Nanoha it's because he expects us to believe that canon Luna and the canon Senshi would actually act like this under these circumstances. Those of us who've watched Sailor Moon can tell otherwise, and so the fic takes a hit in quality due to the dissonance between what we know and what we're expected to believe. Those who don't watch Sailor Moon don't pick up on this because they don't know the characters as well as we do. This is how you get fanon bullshit like "Pluto the Master Manipulator" or "Evil Tyrant Neo-Queen Serenity". Or in this case, "Trigger Happy Shoot-First-Ask-After-We-Get-Pwned Senshi".
Nanoha has the same problem in a couple of scenes. The part where she vaporized Jadeite during the wedding was a major out-of-character moment for her; Nanoha does not kill her enemies. Ever. Not even
Quattro could provoke her into using lethal force
after she tortured her daughter half to death in front of her.