#canon stormy is just a lot more open about her emotions - like she doesn't hide them as much as icy and darcy do

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Any criticism of the fanon versions of the Trix?

Yes actually! I feel like their fanon versions aren't as bad but it's definitely there.

Imo, the worst one is Stormy as it's often racist as fuck. I get that it's very easy to assume she's black or mixed because of her hair and that she is canonically a very chaotic witch, but the fanon version goes overboard and erases literally every other part of her personality. People make it seem like her entire personality is just being the Angry One who can't control herself. And that specific fanon version is more often seen with the redesigns of her being explicitly black (and usually with much darker skin).

In canon, Stormy does get annoyed and mad pretty quickly, but she can control herself and her magic. She also has tons of moments where she's calm, teasing the others, making jokes, having fun and laughing, etc. I just really hate seeing those Oh She's So Angry Hates Everyone And That's All headcanons cause like? No? She's a (fairly) normal teenage girl who also likes to cause problems on purpose. And her being more open with her emotions than the others doesn't mean that she can't control them or that she's Always Angry.

Darcy's fanon version tends to be a bit nicer but I think that's often because people think she's hot and they want to see her in control. Fanon!Darcy is very "always suave hot girl always calm never shows emotion stronger than icy etcetc". It tends to exaggerate her better qualities instead and gets rid of things like her quick to annoyance attitude or her occasional Very Emotional When Things Go Wrong side. People tend to project on Darcy a lot more than the others so her fanon version is a lot nicer and a little more in tune with canon. It just cherry picks her personality really badly. (I've noticed people also think she's the Good trix just because she fell in love with Riven and felt bad for him which,,,)

I feel like Icy tends to get understood a lot more since she is the Main Trix and Bloom's counterpart so we see more of her and her internal dialogue which really helps. But she does still have a fanon version! Fanon!Icy typically goes in one of two ways: she's either the Super Cool (heheh) Witch who doesn't care about Bloom at all and would immediately drop her sisters and she's just so unemotional and uncaring and yaddayadda. Or she's the extremely emotional, cares so much, cries every day, Bloom always gets under her skin no matter what, thinks about Bloom all day every day, would kill herself for her sisters, can't control her powers, etc.

Like... usually Fanon Versions of characters tend to highlight and exaggerate specific qualities that the fandom likes and disregard everything else, especially if it "goes against" that fanon. So for the trix specifically, Stormy always gets the Angry And Wild trope, Darcy gets the Mature Hot Girl trope, and Icy gets one of those two depending on which aspects of her people are focusing on.