I couldn't remember if you had mentioned in here or not before. I had read your posts so long ago and skimming through quickly at two in the morning apparently missed it. Sorry about that.

Laziness...that is a curious way to look at it. I think I can see where you're coming from with it. I hadn't thought about it being seen as laziness since they are making the effort to change things up. The ultimate in laziness would be just endlessly using their name and never saying anything else.

I end up reading fiction rather than fan fiction, so I don't know how terrible things get in the fan fiction. I think it might be a little better in fiction, but it is definitely a problem that people identify visually and not by personality. A part of that could be society itself as well since so many people read another based on their appearance rather than their words or personality.

I actually had someone review one of my stories suggesting that I start using visual descriptors for my characters rather than their name. It just flattened me to hear someone actually going around suggesting that style of writing. Because I agree with you that characters should be able to hold on their personalities just as well as their appearances. In a good conversation one should never be confused who is speaking because their speech or the things they're saying should make it pretty clear who the speaker is.

Chocolate orbs sounds like they're getting desperate. You can at least give them credit for being creative if nothing else.