Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10197675-20130806142227/@comment-24.111.120.132-20131229050042

I agree with Ralok; sure fans and their friends can have little RP's and can create OC's and all that, and have THEORY as to the gaps that has not been filled by Bethesda, but those fans do not have the right to declare it official canon, and neither does someone who no longer works for Bethesda. Let me put it this way;

Let's say someone started on a drawing of a person. They take a break, go eat, whatever...

they come back to find someone else sitting there, trying to finish the drawing themself. The original artist is upset, 'that was MY drawing, what are you doing??"

and the other person says "oh well it wasn't finished, and I think it should look like this!"

The original artist had a vision for the drawing, a certain way they wanted it to look. Just because the drawing was not finished doesn't mean someone else can come along and tell the original artist what the image should be. However, if the second person let the first person finish their drawing, and then do their OWN drawing loosely based off of the first, then that would be different. I couldn't really think of another way to explain it, so I hope it makes sense.

A random fan, or even an ex-employee, cannot take liberty with a series and declare things canon if the creator did not intend it.

As an artist, I'd be damn upset if someone came and tried to tell me what my character's canon backstory was, even if I hadn't fleshed it out.