Someone please explain. I see people looking for Steven Universe and Adventure Time roleplays and to be honest it makes me giggle a little! Do you literally play as the characters and basically make the roleplay extremely childlike? I'm so confused!

I thought fandom roleplays were when one or all parties involved played as celebrities. I'm clearly wrong! What are those ones called? Educate meee!

Most fandom roleplays I know of usually involve the actual world rather than canon characters, with their own OCs that fit in the world. If there are canon characters, they're usually NPCs or long deceased.

Then again there are those like you mentioned. Not sure what's their specific name, however it's a genre I don't particularly like or think I'll ever rp in. ^^;

I use strictly use canons when I play fandoms. For me it's an opportunity to develop a world and characters that I'm already very familiar with so it makes plotting much quicker. For instance I would have thought Harry and Hermione would be a thing so I write to put them together and tweak events in an interesting manner that the author hadn't ventured towards. For me, playing in established worlds with established characters is very entertaining and it's something I do with respect and care. A lot of folks do like to use OCs often as an [insert me] sort of situation which I try to avoid. For me, it's just a delight to take a setting (Iron Man, Pokemon, CSI, Dragon Age etc) and explore more of it.

Many folks don't dig fandoms and even more are uncomfortable playing canons. I get that.

But like other genres in writing or roleplaying, everyone has their likes/dislikes and for me, fandoms have been a great source of thrilling and very rewarding storytelling. Just because it's a fandom, doesn't make it any less creative or "original" than other genre based original RPs, at least in my mind.

I have been enlightened. Thanks folks!

No problem, glad you got some feedback.