Board Thread:Fanon Discussion/@comment-3991308-20150609072755/@comment-3991308-20150610012659

You know how Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) and Zuko (Avatar) are super awkward losers who are seen as suave and confident by readers and watchers? Yeah. I have a feeling that Airmid Valerian would be mischaracterised like that. She's very awkward, in both speech and actions, but I bet some readers would see her blunt and straightforward nature as someone more socially adept. (She's also autistic-coded because she fits most of the traits but I'm not sure if I'll "officially" state that she's autistic just yet, and I wonder whether readers would acknowledge that or deny that).

I bet that either Avian Juniper or Hyacinth Flowers would be immediately classified as the "cinnamon bun, too pure, too good for this world" who could "do no wrong" and are "precious children". Fandom's obsession for these kinds of male characters smh.

And I bet fandom (and more specially, white fandom) would really ignore all the importance of feminism and the intersectionality of feminism that I tried to write into Lian's character. That's bound to happen. Fandom's tendency to ignore those things in POC LGBTA+ characters is strong.

Oh yeah, let's not mention how fandom will probably ignore that Rennard Couronne is super respectful of boundaries despite him being the biggest manwhore i've ever wrote. It's such an important part of this character and if it gets erased by anyone I would probs cry.

There's probably more but here are the main ones I can think off the top of my head.