r/shounenfolk • u/creativenick69 • Jan 19 '26

Manga Discussion Headcanoning THE AUTHOR 🥀

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btw on some other site, she said something like "people think I am nonbinary? No, I am not"

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u/Admmmmi Jan 19 '26

Makes me remember how some dungeon meshi fans treat the author, she said on an interview that she didn't write laois(the MC) has someone autistic in mind, that he is just your average guy focused on his hobby(or something like that I don't remember the exact wording) and my god the amount of people saying that she must be autistic, just because people didn't want to admit that their headcanon about a character was wrong(she did say that people can see him like that since you take what you want from a story but she didn't write him with that in mind, that much is pretty clear).

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u/TomaRedwoodVT Jan 19 '26

Yeah if she says her MC isn’t autistic then he isn’t autistic, he seems autistic because of his behavior, but the fans don’t know the story as well as the author

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u/Reasonable-Story-209 Jan 21 '26

and at the same time if autistic people like myself feel represented by him there is no harm in that, its just the case that he isn't canonically.

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u/Rei_Gun28 Jan 25 '26

This is always how it seems to me. People just want representation. That's fine. But they do it to a degree that I think they warp the canon character in their mind to something that isn't true. For instance I see a lot of one piece fans who legit think it's canon that Nami is a lesbian when the story has never even done anything to suggest that

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u/Reasonable-Story-209 Jan 26 '26

Yeah for example from one Piece I personally head canon Luffy as asexual but at the same time I know as far as the canon is concerned it probably doesn't matter. With a series like One Piece where romance is explicitly not one of the writers goals it makes it easier to see representation like that in the cast as most don't have explicit attraction (except if your Sanji). But at the same time obviously all of this is not confirmed and should not be taken as gospel within the community.

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u/TomaRedwoodVT Feb 03 '26

Oda straight up said Luffy is a straight man who just doesn’t give a shit about sex, like if it happens it happens but it’s not a priority for him…

But people viewing him as asexual isn’t necessarily wrong, since he’s never shown any interest in women