Golden Sun's fandom is quite weird, in that it isn't weird. I don't know how else to summarize it. Consider the numbers: Nintendo's three big lines are generally agreed to be Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Over at the Pit, Zelda has an insane number of fics, but Mario and Metroid combined have less than one and a half times as many fics as Golden Sun. My only explanation is that nobody's heard of it, but everybody who has, contributes. As far as the fans themselves... Well. The shipping page on the Golden Sun wiki links directly to both the TVTropes pages on shipping and crack pairings. Sometimes it seems that there's an ongoing competition to write the crackiest pairing and make it believable. Despite that, though, there's next to no killing off characters to make room for preferred pairings. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of fandom tropes that Golden Sun conspicuously lacks - no memetic mutation, no Chuck Norris comparisons...
I know for a fact that there have been at least three GS-specific RPs here on Livejournal. All of them have gone defunct, possibly due to the utter lack of any updates from the companies behind it all. Well, that's not completely true; at E3 '09 a sequel was announced... and then apparently forgotten; there's been approximately one added piece of information in the intervening 215 days.
But yes. Golden Sun. Everyone needs to know it and give my Felix some canonmates.
OH AND: Some of you may have heard of limyaael, most famous for her "rants" on fantasy and fanfiction. One of these rants is on quests. While Golden Sun is ineligible for the last half of Limyaael's points, on the grounds that it doesn't really have a "quest object" as she uses the term, it absolutely nails the first three. (Or, well, there's some discussion about the first one. But definitely 2 and 3!)
(Come to that, early Final Fantasies need love, too, but not as blatantly as GS.)
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Golden Sun
Golden Sun's fandom is quite weird, in that it isn't weird. I don't know how else to summarize it. Consider the numbers: Nintendo's three big lines are generally agreed to be Mario, Zelda, and Metroid. Over at the Pit, Zelda has an insane number of fics, but Mario and Metroid combined have less than one and a half times as many fics as Golden Sun. My only explanation is that nobody's heard of it, but everybody who has, contributes. As far as the fans themselves... Well. The shipping page on the Golden Sun wiki links directly to both the TVTropes pages on shipping and crack pairings. Sometimes it seems that there's an ongoing competition to write the crackiest pairing and make it believable. Despite that, though, there's next to no killing off characters to make room for preferred pairings. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of fandom tropes that Golden Sun conspicuously lacks - no memetic mutation, no Chuck Norris comparisons...
I know for a fact that there have been at least three GS-specific RPs here on Livejournal. All of them have gone defunct, possibly due to the utter lack of any updates from the companies behind it all. Well, that's not completely true; at E3 '09 a sequel was announced... and then apparently forgotten; there's been approximately one added piece of information in the intervening 215 days.
But yes. Golden Sun. Everyone needs to know it and give my Felix some canonmates.
OH AND: Some of you may have heard of
(Come to that, early Final Fantasies need love, too, but not as blatantly as GS.)