As I note in my signature, I write. I have an Agents of Shield fan series that’s getting well into the six hundred page range.

and I constantly rewatch the show on Netflix to try to keep the characterization consistent. (That and the fact I’m head over heels in love with Chloe Bennet).

the reason being is that a character needs to be consistent in their presentation, otherwise they stop being the same character and you loose the immersion of the story.

(My stories are a divergent canon, everything that happened right up to the snap happened) 

the single most obvious victim of such treatment, about not caring?

Star Trek Voyager and more specifically, Captain Janeway.

one second she’s a caring mother figure to her crew, the next she’s a jackbooted psychopath that makes the interpretation of her in “Living Witness” understanble.

in the season 5 to season 6 cliffhanger “Equinox” she straight up tries to murder a prisoner who refused to answer her.

several years earlier, she’d felt with Lon Sutter, a betazoid (the telepathic species Counselor Troi’s Mother comes from). One of the Maqui characters, he’d murdered a man in cold blood. What does Janeway do? Lock him in his quarters.

Later, in 30 days, Tom Paris, the helmsman, is tossed in solitary confinement for a month (along with being busted down to ensign) for committing what can only be described as a terrorist attack.

An actor can only do so much with the material given to them. It’s down to you, as the writer.

now, that being said, never changing is just as wrong, character development is important (the later sections of my SHIELD story tell the characters lives over several decades and I made sure to allow the characters to grow and develop, but I try my damndest to keep the growth on the straight and narrow path.

Now, you can occasionally be all over the place, if your know what you’re doing. One of my original characters is an aspie. Another has had her head messed with so many times she’s developed a personality disorder. One minute she’s calm and on point, the next she’s in the corner crying. But I intended that to be her character.

Janeway was not supposed to be that way.

It’s telling that a few writers who joined Voyager after Deep Space Nine ended left not long after because of that very reason. Asking “how do you write this character?” and being told “whatever.”