Talk:Flower/@comment-73.109.159.58-20190406084233/@comment-53539-20190406130342

Most replies are from me. And for the record, I have nothing against trans either, its that canonically she is female therefore as far as it matters, thats what she is. Headcanons basically mean nothing. As I said if you want LGBT, then thats fine because... Well... We don't know her sexuality. You literally are rewriting a character to suit your own desires. This is known as "OOC" and is considered a bad fan writing trait. OOC means "Own original Character", it is used to describe a situation where you take an existing character within a franchise and butcher all of its traits, leaving only the desired ones.

Its like taking Shoa Kahn from Mortal Kombat and making him a flower loving hoppie. While their nice if done right, as a sort of "what if". The typical example, however, involves taking an existing character and basically making them a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu, or just the writers Boyfriend in some self insert story. Its generally frowned upon in actual TV shows and considered bad writing, but does go on. An example is the episode "somepony to watch over me" where the write cranked up AppleJack's paranoia too far, and while subtle is often quoted as one of the worst episodes. I spent most of the 2000s mocking these examples which I do have a general issue with headcanons, because they really are bad examples of writing.

And as I said before, the headcanons didn't exist prior the V4, which means their only a result of headcanon stereotypes "girls must wear dresses" level. I actually have an issue because I was very tom boyish and, minus her goth style, dressed like flower as a teenager, because that was the 80s and 90s so girls wore whatever they dam well wanted regardless of if the were straight or LGBT.