seans #1 fan

i hate talking to someone about real things a character said and did, then they start using something i’ve never even heard of to defend a character, or explain something about them, then i find out they made it up. look, i adore headcanons, but that’s what they are by definition. something made up by the fans. not canon.

in my opinion, it’s wasted potential to neglect all seven of the interactions sean and lenny had together when discussing sean’s character. these interactions show sean’s views on politics, they show both of their youth as they pick on bill together twice, they tell us sean’s view on respecting the dead, they literally show us that sean’s illiterate and not willing to learn to read but lenny wants to try and teach him anyway, refusing to give up on him. the fact that sean is illiterate is a big part of his character, and it came from his interactions with lenny. i am genuinely convinced that if people took apart these interactions instead of the constant focus this fandom gives to the same three romantic interactions he had with karen, everyone would have a better understanding of sean. they’d find out things about him they never knew.

sean and karen’s dialogue, compared to sean and lenny’s, tells us strikingly little about sean. yet this fandom has pulled their interactions apart over and over, given them infinite focus, acted like sean was closest with her when it’s just not true, and have absolutely sidelined lenny summers. in every post about sean’s character, karen will always be there instead of lenny, as if those seven interactions, each representing something new about them both, never happened. it is frustrating.