If they don’t like how you RP a character, obviously they can RP them themselves the way they want to, or find someone else to RP them for them. At the same time they can play their own character however they want to too. Given the ongoing debate about where the line is between a headcanon and coding, discussions and drama around this can become heated. Headcanon refers to something that a fan imagines to be true about a character even though no information supporting that belief is spelled out in the text. Sometimes that involves filling in your own explanation for a character’s strange motivation, or projecting aspects onto a character that make them more relatable to you. However, there is no evidence that Knox himself used the term.

If enough people get the message and accept the message, then it becomes part of the religious tradition. UPG is Unverified Personal Gnosis – information and wisdom that comes to individuals through means that can’t be objectively confirmed. It’s things you learn in dreams, in trance, or through divination. It isn’t something you made up or something you think is true.

What amazes me about them, though, is when you will see fans step in and try to argue against certain picks, because the picks don't fit their headcanon, and I just think that that is unreasonable. Headcanon is when the fans use their owm interpretations of a or over a fictional universe that they find accepted to themselves as a fan, but yet its not entirely found within or supported by the official canon source material. That’s how I like to handle it, option 3 that is.

A casual Google search will yield millions of results saying that JK Rowling needs to stop. (Seriously, just Google search "JK Rowling needs to stop", I got about 24,100,000 results in 0.60 seconds). But even as fans cry that JK Rowling is ruining Harry Potter, many still create new fan theories and accept collective headcanons to the point where a large subsection of the fandom now accepts that Draco Malfoy is a Werewolf.

It’s something you believe is true because you trust the source, even though you can’t "prove" it’s true to yourself, much less to someone else. Fandoms are religions — that is, communities united by shared practices centered around a common text. Fandom is, in fact, one of the healthiest and most fruitful sources of novel religious practice in the contemporary Western cultural landscape. Fandom represents the antidote to the commodification of culture — it takes the products of corporate mass media, uncouples them from this origin, and returns them to the folk tradition. Since I posted the original document it has gone through a lot of edits, mostly from people finding additional, verifiable quotes. I wasn't aware that I needed your permission to post in the roleplaying section of the forums.

Together, they can help really give you a solid foundation to build off of. But there is one other thing to consider when making headcanon that doesn’t break the canon of the world. Eventually, as I got involved and fell in love with those particular characters, I started to believe that they were autistic but were undiagnosed and/or simply thought that the author wrote these autistic traits in these characters unintentionally.

Generally, works created or endorsed by the original author(s) are considered canonical. Not all original content is considered canon and not all canon is original content. Sometimes creators will rewrite the canon (called a retcon) and make things that were previously canonical non-canonical. For example, the origins of a character may be rewritten, thus invalidating the portions of the works that speak to the old origins. Other times creators will incorporate non-original content and therefore incorporate the canon of these borrowed works. In literary studies, the meaning of canon has broadened to encompass the works of a writer or any group of writings considered as sanctioned or accepted within a circle.

I had found his first video around midnight local time and spent until 3 in the morning binge watching every Star Wars video he had, and every single one had more and more quotes. I was floored, as I know they were all true but had no idea that these quotes existed. Through his videos I found the EU movement and our wonderful community of like-minded fans. Without those videos I would not be here today. I don't think the idea of superhero fiction is too out there. In the real world, we have fiction about everything from space to war which are all based on modern understandings of science and technology.

headcanon generator (or Personal Canon)-- refers to the personal beliefs or interpretations about canon that an author or reader makes to explain or account for some aspect of the actual canon. The generator headcanon itself, while not officially supported by the canon, tends also not to be actually disprovenor refuted by the canon and will therefore seem plausible in the mind of the fan who imagines it. Headcanons are as many and varied as the fans themselves, may be about the past, present, or future of the character or plot, and can be shared by others if particularly enticing or believable. In fact, if a headcanon is so popular that it gets adopted by many members of a fandom, it may eventually become accepted as fanon for that fandom.

I don’t mean that SUPER literally, but I more so mean that they forget certain things have to happen in order for this to function as a video game and, moreover, an MMO. Some games can let you get away with quite a lot. The Secret World, for example, is rated M. It carries many mature themes and images with very heavy implications and sexual themes. While it's likely many of its players are not actually old enough to be playing it, the general idea is that you should be 17 or older and capable of handling harsh material.