1, 8, 18!
Ahhh, thanks Jade! <3
1 - the character everyone gets wrong
Ohhh, first hot take of the day is that a solid 60-80% of the fandom gets every single PC wrong to some level. Either they ignore them entirely/reduce them down to a handful of tropes, or they only interpret their actions in relation to a ship dynamic or ship trope. Characters deemed less shippable (Grog, Pike, Caduceus, Veth, etc) get consistently portrayed as support/side characters to the “main” ships, characters who are not members of the person’s favourite ship/are members of a counter-ship to the person’s favourite ship get bad-faith interpretations of all their actions regardless of whether they have anything to do with romance in the first place, and characters who are part of a ship get entirely reduced to shipping tropes.
Of course there are usually a few dedicated fans (braver than any US marine) of each character who do their best to provide thoughtful canon-based analysis of the characters as they actually are, but I’m still going to block the next person who complains about the misogyny Vex gets from fans (true) and then proceeds to exclusively discuss every single one of Vex’ actions in the context of her romantic interests whether or not they have anything to do with her romantic interests.
8 - common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
“The gods are actually the REAL villains and need to be gotten rid off!” How’s that Ludinus juice tasting, y’all? Really, we gotta stop projecting our personal experiences with and views on evangelical Christianity onto the entirely separate religious system and context of Exandria.
18 - it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…
Caduceus! Dude does not exist in the story to be the party therapist/ship counsellor - I know Caduceus went to great pains to /act/ like a therapist, but it’s an exploration of the character’s flaws (namely arrogance), not a sign that he really /is/ a therapist.
