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As a fandom a feel like we’ve taken fanon interpretations of OJ to an extent that I think is not backed up in canon. Is OJ a really kind considerate person? Probably not, but he’s not heartless, in no world would he find any joy in paper getting harmed in any way, especially if you think OJ is a selfish person- how would him not caring about papers wellbeing support that? Paper is a VERY important person in OJs life and any sort of selfishness would leave him wanting to protect Paper MORE.

Also, by saying OJ is “letting” paper get harmed you are implying OJ is like. In charge of Paper. Paper is his own person, and doesn’t even have to tell OJ his plans for staying, and OJs response doesn’t indicate his lack of care or abuse of Paper, (unless he was like. Excited about it for some reason. That would be weird and out of character of course)

If we are so focused on separating Paper from OJs hip when it comes to fanon interpretations, making Papers decision alllll about OJs response is doing the EXACT opposite

So to sum it up I suppose, I don’t think OJ is wrong for letting Paper stay on the island, or even wrong in his response. OJ is clearly not weirdly happy about the situation, and if he didn’t think Paper could do it he wouldn’t have let him. I think the dynamics I’ve seen from some fan arts and discussions regarding this have been really interesting! But to imply them as canon IN MY OPINION isn’t fair for what we’ve seen from OJ and Paper.