But it's hard for me to talk about it in any other way after having spent the last two years so much in the fandom. If I'd come to MDZS before I ever knew anything about CQL this would be reading very differently!
I come to it from the scenario of not having read MDZS, having watched the beginning of CQL but never getting very far (which is for the best, it prevented me from ragequitting at "the good guys target shooting involving prisoners of war"), but having been in this fandom since before CQL, and I see that shift in the fics themselves. WWX was always going to be woobiefied by some, but having the show come down so hard on He Did Nothing Wrong really influenced a lot of fics. And meanwhile bookcanon fics are more willing to see that, yeah, he did.
Speaking of which, I found out about the second flautist thing from a fic note saying there is no second flautist in this fic. And I was all "....?????" WWX is a mass murderer in one canon but not, I guess, in the other.
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I come to it from the scenario of not having read MDZS, having watched the beginning of CQL but never getting very far (which is for the best, it prevented me from ragequitting at "the good guys target shooting involving prisoners of war"), but having been in this fandom since before CQL, and I see that shift in the fics themselves. WWX was always going to be woobiefied by some, but having the show come down so hard on He Did Nothing Wrong really influenced a lot of fics. And meanwhile bookcanon fics are more willing to see that, yeah, he did.
Speaking of which, I found out about the second flautist thing from a fic note saying there is no second flautist in this fic. And I was all "....?????" WWX is a mass murderer in one canon but not, I guess, in the other.