Talk:Flower/@comment-2A01:598:FF0B:56F8:2C13:FFF7:B1EC:F619-20190312203957/@comment-53539-20190312215909

Actually, we DO know what headcanon is, it just doesn't matter at all.

And yes, changing certain aspects, it does contradict the canon, because you basically know what she is and are headcanoning her to be the opposite. It may not effect flower herself, but it impacts your perception. In many cases, just a simple change like the gender may not seem like a big deal to that person, but in reality your are changing a major factor, as gender is a major part of a characters biology and biography. So the person who forces their opinion, basically is unable to accept the character as is unless they force an ideal onto it.

However, if the headcanon is she is a lesbian, then thats not contradiction at all because there is no canon to say otherwise. Thats you filling in the gaps which is encouraged within Vocaloid itself.

A lot of the times, the issue is that people want representation within their favourite franchises, or want their own personnel version of it. I've seen variables of both in every fandom I've encountered in my time on the net since 1999/2000, to the point where I watched a lot of TV shows and asked "are the two of us watching the same show?". In any other fandom, the headcanon-ing we do would be considered bad writing, as you are creating a OOC when you can't be bothered to create a better OC. I think "OOC" is the correct term here. While its sometimes nice to create a "what if" scenario, this is most of the time within Vocaloid just not the case. In short the Vocaloid fandom basically does the things that all other fandoms mock and laugh at.

The issue would not be so important if we had a canon storyline, as this factors into fandoms like One Piece quite a bit. But in our fandom the Vocaloids have very little canon at all, and since you don't have to use it for songs, and that the CFM set the president for how they want you to view their characters, fans more or less will ignore every ounce of canon at times even when it is important. Its just how the fandom is. And yes, I feel people do have a right to complain and criticise because the fans who do want to re-write flower in their little fantasy have basically spread their opinion onto others and at one stage there was a growing number of fans who refuse to accept flower as her true nature.

In the long run, this can even impact the fans helping to make sites like this wiki, as we're constantly having to do certain things like repeat ourselves and we often see the result of the fandoms bad trends. You only had to look at the V2 period and the treatment of English Vocaloid to see just how bad our fandom can be when it gets an idea into its head. So you can't even say that the transgender POV headcanon doesn't impact flower, it does. It prevents people adoring her as a female.

On a side note, the Gynoid company only said she had the female gentials, her artist for the V4, said she was female. The two things pretty much say she is "XX" overall and that is that.

Finally there is one more thing to note; prior to the V4 artwork flower never had any gender issues and people had no trouble with her as a female. The whole thing came from stereotyping and confusion caused by Flower's v4 artwork and nothing else. So this is the only reason flower even has the gender issue at all. People could not accept that she hadn't changed just because she now wore a boy-ish outfit. If the V4 artwork was identical to the V3 one, as some companies don't bother updating the artwork for re-releases, there would be no problems at all.

Its even gotten to the point wherein some people refuse to accept the canon at all and want their headcanon to be the canon, as I've seen this at DeviantArt and YouTube.