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There is this detail about one of my fandom's main character's abilities that I noticed one player got wrong.

Then I noticed another player got it wrong.

Then I noticed everyone who played with these players started to get it wrong.

It's an epidemic and I'm too nice to say anything because that would be weird But it annoys me so much.

The worst is that I can't even find any written proof that this is not how it works, because they added onto his abilities so naturally these added on things aren't found on any wiki.

You can claim I should just ignore it but when they talk about this stuff with my character then it involves me... and my character is not in a position to tell them any different icly.

not trying to be a dick especially since in my fandom i too am That Guy who notices when people get tiny details wrong - but if you can't point to any proof, how are you sure you're not the one who's wrong?

yeah, gonna need to +1 this. magic and abilities are those things that are generally up in the air because of the fact they're not 'real'. it's like saying 'well, you need to do a specific wrist motion for this hp spell' when it was never clarified in the books/movies and someone else is going with 'my char's adept enough that they don't need to vocalize spells/do the swishy want motions' which is also canon, so... you're both wrong and right.

a good example would help.

Because I did hours of research to prove to myself that I wasnt insane. I wouldn't say this out of the blue.

if you have examples to point at from the research, you could put it on the wiki yourself.

It's tricky because (and this is not the exact situation but similar) canon hands you the sword of the mystic, which can do x. These players take the sword of the mystic and turn it into a pocket knife with xyz abilities.

So I can't go onto the wiki and say "the sword of the mystic isn't a pocket knife." That would be weird.

wait, so your problem is how the players have interpreted it to fit it into the game?

Knew I had to add this...

No, completely independent bakerstreet memes. I'm not in a game and they involve my character in this.

... gonna need more deets on this. and if random players on memes are doing it, then maybe it's something that's abstractly looked at and you're taking it in a more literal sense.

I'd rather confront them than expose the fandom here so sorry, anon.

honestly, I would try to learn to deal with it. if it's just an interpretation of a fiddly bit of canon and people are having fun with it, then it's kind of a dick move to correct them. people get details wrong on memes all the time, it's not exactly a place you go to for 100% IC content.

you're starting to sound pedantic and unfun, op

Yes. And that's why I just vent here instead of ruining their fun.

lol in a comment upthread you literally just said you want to "confront them".

Lol go read that again and realize that wasn't what I ~~literally~~ meant.

backpeddling pretty hard now you've realised that you're being kind of unreasonable, huh?

Cute.

start a conversation. instead of opening with 'you're all wrong', maybe open with 'i could be wrong, but this is how i thought it was, so could you explain why it's this way instead?'

that comes off as less confrontational, less know it all, and more open to a dialogue which could have you either changing the way they view it or seeing how they do so now you know why they do that.

if this is a case of a headcanon/fanon becoming so prevalent that it's taken as fact and not an outright contradiction of canon, then in my experience yeah, you're going to have a much harder time getting other players to knock it off

you have my sympathies

I fear it may be this because I did see it float on Tumblr once or twice too while I was searching...

(The epidemic is spreading, run for the hills!)

tumblr is likely to blame for the weird, incorrect headcanon my fandom has ingrained in their minds too... we're doomed.

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