Date: 2014-06-15 05:24 am (UTC)
Agreed agreed.

I only read J2 AU, so I never expect the fics to reflect the actual personalities - because, IMO, the names are just a short-cut to tell the audience what the characters look like and nothing else - the writer still has to tell us what personalities they have in the particular fic we're reading.

But it's true that you get the same tropes - submissive=bottom=shy=woobie, and dominate=top=confident=strong.

And yeah, if there's one thing Stiles is not, it is shy/insecure. After I started watching the show, I couldn't do Sterek "non-AUs" anymore because of that... again, I'm fine with AUs, because the names are just short-cuts for looks and I don't expect them to have the same personalities. I mean, yes, usually people stick with the basics, Stiles=talkative, Derek=quiet, but that seems to be the only thing that remains the same.
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