Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27312496-20170205195843/@comment-26018514-20170206173439

SpiritedDreaming wrote: It wasn't aimed at you Terminus, I was merely using your post to state what I was referring to. It was aimed at everyone who has ever said 'This character is based on this thing, so they have to follow that things story to the letter'. Tbf, I don't think most people are arguing the bolded portion of the above, personally I argue:

if they follow the allusion, then this is the likely conclusion because of X, Y, Z in the original story.

The problem is that often there aren't many clues outside of the allusion, so that is the only thing the theory can be based on, the fact that they don't have to follow it at all is non-sequitur.