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Silly? Sure. But then by the same token so is ANY fanwork. As fans, we take this thing that we love and we expand it, explore it, change and improve it. We look at what might happen in the future, and what the past might have been like to give us what we see in canon. We wonder what would happen if characters A and B met, or if C and D got together. If we change the outcome of this fight, how would that affect later events? What if we saw this scene from a different point of view? What if the setting was different? The species swapped? A different time period? How would these characters fit into a different genre? Could we add a new moral? What if we dumped them into a blender with this other work of fiction? What would happen then? Those questions are the essence of the fandom. They're how we create, and why we gather together to share the fruits of our labours. If we simply took the canon as gospel, let it stand without questioning or shaping it in any way, there would be no fandom. There would simply be a creation and an audience, sitting in silence and not interacting at all. The theories, art, stories. All the furvor and joy and innovation of fandom. It doesn't come from accepting canon as immovable stone. It comes from asking "what if?".
So yeah, Hussie said they're just grey people with horns. Are you just gonna sit there and take that or do you think you could come up with something cool?
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