I've been talking about my reading of Fraser with Mal and a couple of other people, and see the same thing happening there--that when faced with a disconnect between the fanon reading and the canon characteristics that I want to point out, readers are going to pick fanon because it 'feels right' to them.

I would love to see that discussion. Is it in a public place?

(Let me know if you find it--I'd like to read the whole thing, if you don't find!)

No part of that discussion is online anywhere, sorry. It all happened in the Real World arm of fandom. Go figure. :) I might have the fic stored somewhere, but I don't even remember which one it was.