User blog comment:VedranTheII/At what point is a writer like Cardin Winchester?/@comment-24198837-20150525234853

Interesting point. I don't really read fanfics often, but I can see how this would arise.

I think it's because, as others have said, Cardin is really simple and one-sided. He doesn't have much character to work with in the first place - and people really aren't that creative. If he's shown to be a bully, and pay for it in the show, they'll write similar scenarios when he's involved. Because that's what he's been shown as.

It is odd how essentially everyone writes Cardin fairly accurate to the source material, while every other character seems to be free reign for changing even core aspects of what makes them who they are.

I'd actually like a fanfic that tries to explain Cardin, instead of keeping him in this area of one-dimensional nothingness he's in now. You can add debth and explain characters without making them protagonists. I believe a lot of novice writers don't realize that.