I’m just gonna clean the dust over here cause it has been years….
Btw my art stuff is on the #doodle tag (be aware cause there is pretty old stuff … I’m kind of ashamed)
Full offense but sometimes fandom just totally make up the characterization of a character and then complain when that isn’t canon
Also full offense but sometimes fandom makes up characterization of a character and then guilt trips and shames any fan that doesn’t agree with that specific perspective in all fanon works.
This is why fanon is good and bad. Because some of yall truly need to see the line between fanon and canon.
It’s great to have theories, fics, headcanons, even those incorrect texts whatever. But it all snowballs from there and suddenly that character who just makes jokes to ease the room is a fucken idiot. That broody boy in the corner is now a uwu soft boi who needs all the hugs. Someone who is struggling in canon with the burden of power is now fine with it. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Fanon ships are another thing, people get so wrapped up in thinking wow this is what it should be not that canon ship instead. That when they’re ship isn’t canon because it doesn’t make sense or the Fandom flipped the view of a character they get pissed sometimes and start bullying the shippers of the canon endgames
And its 100% okay to have these ideas but some people in a fandom end up immersing themselves within the fanon side and so when the next book or season comes out and the character isnt like how they are in the fics and hcs they’ve been reading suddenly the author ruined a character the author created.
I think a huge part of the problem is how fandom has slowly been sliding from ‘fun’ into ‘right’.
Don’t get me wrong. Fandom has always had pockets of people more interested in their character/ship/etc being ‘right’ but it seems like, more and more, the emphasis in fandom has gone from
‘this is a fun idea’
to
‘this is a right idea’
and now the second is seen as the only valid response to being in fandom with a headcanon.*cough* *cough* 👆 relevant *cough*
Someone put it into words omg!
I love to talk about how Strong and Resilient Meryl is just like everyone else in our little Meryl fan club but also. I want her to be allowed to break down and not patch herself back up for Vash’s sake. I want her to be messier. She’s already 3-dimensional. I want to add a 4th dimension. Healing isn’t linear and she should be allowed to have her ugly feelings get mixed up and messy and get in the way of her relationship with Vash more. Let her be angry. Let her be cruel just because she’s still hurt. She is stronger than a million Millions Knives but does she always have to be? Can a girl not be messy long after the trauma? Does she have to be consistently Good and Loving while she heals? Isn’t she tired? Can a girl go apeshit?
I think there’s a lot to be said about how Vash talks about his mom like she’s his dead girlfriend and how Knives talks about his mom like a jilted lover but are we, as a society, ready to unpack that?
here, let me help
レム・セイブレム
ヴァッシュの人生の指標とも呼べる、彼にとって母親でもあり恋人でもあった女性。ナイブスが起こした事故から人類という「種」を守る為、その身を犠牲にした、移民宇宙船のオペレーター。
“rem saverem. a woman who was both a mother and a lover figure to vash, who also became the guideline of his life. she was an operator in an immigrant spaceship, and gave up her life for the sake of protecting mankind’s "seeds” from an incident knives caused.“
nightow’s comment
レムはアニメ版の描写を鑑みながら自分なりに動かしやすいキャラ立てに落とし込んだら聖母から肝っ玉母ちゃんにジョブチェンジしてしまいました。ゼラニウムの花、ちゃんと資料用に買って水やってましたよ。殺伐としたスタジオの唯一の緑でした。
"nightow’s comment: the portrayal of rem in the anime was that of a holy mother/virgin mary, but while trying to work with her character in an easier way in the manga, she changed into a gutsier/fiercer type of mom. i bought geranium flowers as a reference and watered them. they were the only green thing in my bleak studio.”
(source)
レム・セイブレム
ヴァッシュの永遠の女性。移民船のオペレーターで、物語の発端となる「事故」で命を落とした。ヴァッシュにとっては母親と恋人をあわせたような存在。ヴァッシュは彼女の遺志を忠実に守るとともに、彼女の復讐をはたすために旅を続けているらしい。
“rem saverem. vash’s eternal woman. she was an operator in an immigrant spaceship, and lost her life in ‘the incident’ that started this story. in vash’s eyes she’s a mix of a mother and a lover figure. he seems to be devoted to her dying wish while on a journey to avenge her death.”
ヴァッシュ・ザ・スタンピード
主人公。600億＄＄の賞金をかけられた凄腕のガンマン。通称「人間台風（ヒューマノイドタイフーン）」。街から街へ、放浪の旅を続ける中でさまざまなトラブルに巻き込まれる。とはいえ普段の本人はいたって呑気な平和主義者。かつて「ある事件」で恋人を失い、実はその復讐のために旅を続けている。
“vash the stampede. the main character. he’s a gunslinger of remarkable abilities and has a bounty of 60 billion double dollars on his head. also known as 'the humanoid typhoon’. as he travels from town to town, he gets involved in all kinds of trouble even though he’s just a happy-go-lucky pacifist. long time ago he lost a lover in 'a certain incident’, and now he travels in seek of revenge.”
(source)
WAIT. WAIT NO WAY. MULTIPLE OFFICIAL SOURCES EXPLICITLY CALL REM HIS LOVER? ACTUALLY??? This isn’t just subtext? Oh my GOD
oh wow, they were not even remotely beating around the bush - i mean「恋人」、「彼女」are such clear-cut terms
Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them
When people talk about something being fate, that’s actually a reference to beloved Penguindrum character Ringo Oginome.
