feotakahari | (no subject)

Reading posts from a fandom I’m not part of. X character is drawn to younger boys, to the point of stalking. He wants to protect and nurture them, but he also has intrusive thoughts about “corrupting” them or locking them away from the world. He’s scared of these thoughts and sometimes thinks it would be better to avoid people entirely.

Y fan came up with a possible backstory for X involving having been sexually abused. Y is reluctant to share this headcanon more widely, because talking about it would be seen as endorsing sexual abuse.

I feel like if fans haven’t rejected or condemned the original media for depicting X, they shouldn’t reject attempts to make sense of why X is like this.