30 Days of Guardian

12. Least favorite headcanon
Using the definition of headcanon as something which is not contradicted by canon: Shen Wei as royalty.

1. Sorry, there is only that much Special I can take in a character. He's already got the most specialest power and was stripped from his native time period to his far future, where he is treated as a returned legend and in some circles worshipped. Tacking on "secret royalty" to the end of the list is officially Too Much.


2. A lot of his issues related to being an effective politician make much more sense if he wasn't raised to rule and didn't expect to be given decisionmaking power over Dixing.


3. A common-born person being thrust to greatness is much more compelling than the whole "royal heir raised on a farm" trope or any variant of it, and has less unfortunate implications about the existence of "better folk".


4. I am at heart a grouchy republicanist who doesn't see the point of royals. Making Shen Wei (or anyone, really) royal-born is a big, big minus in my book.

(If we're talking about "identity headcanons", my least favorite is Shen Wei and/or Zhao Yunlan being ace, since I've experienced ace headcanons as the opening salvo of homophobic purity wankers one time too many and I now want to run the opposite way for my own protection if someone declares a character ace. If we're talking about "blatantly contradicting canon" headcanons, my least favorite is Dixingians not having bodily functions, because we see them use the loo on camera repeatedly when common narrative convention is to leave out everyone's bathroom visits. We see more Dixingians than Haixingians use the loo FFS!)

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