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#Vi didn't call her Cait until the s2 trailer but has in fics for years
Something important for us all to remember is that we've had 3 years to make these characters our own, to internalize them. Fanon is not canon. My Vi is not your Vi is not my mutual's Vi. My Caitlyn is not your Caitlyn. My Jinx is not your Jinx.
We've had 3 years for them to grow and change, to identify with them and project on them, to mold them into what we need them to be.
We've had 3 years with an amazing starting point where we could veer off in so many different directions, not constrained by knowing what comes next.
We're about to know what comes next. All those possibilities, those dreams for what we wanted, are going to be unequivocally canon divergent (except for every fic writer who called Vi being a street/pit fighter, they get to be smug as hell).
There is only one canon.
I've fallen prey to this before, where after a long gap and making a character mine, she didn't react in the new canon to things like my version of her would have. That's ok. It doesn't make it bad storytelling on the actual writer's part. That doesn't make it out of character.
You get me? It doesn't make it bad or ooc if the characters in the new season aren't the way you predicted or want them to be. You will have time afterward to incorporate the new information, possibly re-evaluate your view of them, and make them your own again. (For good this time, bc it's the last season.)
So just watch and let things play out and let them settle before you get upset, ok?
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