I didn't really think the fan on relationship of Vinyl and Octavia to be abusive. But I do find some of the fan on a bit grating and cliche. It's like a bad sitcom couple. I was really surprised how different they made the relationship, and it worked really well! It was a short scene but instead of having them reach an argument about music, Octavia is bothered by music and Vinyl tries to help her out. Canon over fanon
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Nearly every fic or fanwork involving them was abusive. It involved vinyl doing somthing stupid, octavia asks to stop and vinyl does the thing even more intensely which results in octavia getting hurt.

Or just vinyl hurting octy and then doing nothing to help her afterwards or just stands there an laughs

Hell, look at this video which was popular for a time

Vinyl tricked octy into drinking hotsauce and instead of offering assistance when octy is clearly struggling to function, she just laughs.


If fans wrote the scene in teh 100th episode where octy said “that’s not wedding appropriate” vinyl would have played the same thing even louder and bust octys ear drums.


But yeah, a lot of fanon works have octy and vinyl in an abusive relationship so I’m happy canon doesn’t do that.

The biggest worry I had for it was that they would use the fanon personalities for vinyl and octavia because…

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lunarjumper:

boy and girl: *look at each other*

*ten billion fan arts, fanfictions, amvs, headcanons*

boy and boy: *look at each other*

*ten billion fan arts, fanfictions, amvs, headcanons*

girl and girl: *flirt constantly, think about each other constantly, kiss, have sex, get married, have lady babies*

fanbase: they r just friends, oh my god stop making everything about lesbians

girl and girl: *stand next to each other a lot*


*ten billion fanfics art and fan made shows about it until it becomes canon*


girl and girl: *have never met and are only associated with musics that are considered on opposite side of the spectrum*


*so much lesbian art and fanfiction that is always they hate each other but no they just needed to have sex*

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