I think you're right about the differences between the kinds of RPF. I know virtually nothing about bandom, but I do get the sense from flist and metafandom links and the occasional Xover I'll read that the subjects of bandom RPF do put a lot more of themselves out there for public consumption than, for example, Samantha Ferris or Joe Flanigan might. And even those two have given eleventy million performances over the course of their careers and probably just as many interviews and appearances that I could dig up.

I don't think that *any* personality can be pasted onto the body of a celebrity, but I do think that with certain celebrities, writers have more latitude than they do with the characters of a TV show because aspects of celebrities' lives are left up to speculation.

I don't know what to say about personality re: Jared and Jensen because my only notion of the kind of people they are stems from all the RPF I've read. Do you think I could write a successful RPF based on all the fanon I've absorbed plus some wikipedia time or do you tink I would need to do some more in-depth research?