One of my pet peeves in any gacha fandom community is shipping characters we don't even know the personalities of yet.
(For the record, everyone should do whatever they want; I encourage it. This is just my inactive blog, and I'm the tyrant of my own space and can vent about my gripes lol)
And I'm not talking about characters interacting. Because one of my favorite ships is Kaeya x Tartaglia, and they never interact. But we know enough about their personalities to write something.
The thing is, someone will write something about a ship with characters we know nothing about. Then that becomes the foundation for how everyone else does it. And it's essentially someone's OC at that point.
Once the characters are on screen, sometimes they end up different. But now we have this entire other personality taking over the internet, so it makes it difficult to sift through fics.
Yes, I am hypocritical. I can't say I've never written a character we don't know much about; I wrote Pierro for a collab because it was a Harbinger collab. It was extremely stressful, and I did an immense amount of research into the lore as well as the history of the name Pierro irl. Thankfully since it wasn't a ship between two onscreen characters, it didn't go anywhere. 😭
So, absolutely do whatever brings you joy, of course. People have every right to say, "Fuck you, I'll do what I want." That's the beauty of fan fiction.
But I'm just going to scream a second because it's also my right to be grumpy about it 💀