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>>15896226
God damn I love Boobybanki.

Boobybanki!

For some characters, it's more or less impossible to have a semi-full mental image of them without resorting to fan material. Many Tohus are as good as non-characters, with literally two lines of vaguely described personality.

For others, there are plenty of materials, and they appear as fully fledged characters, or at least ones with developed profiles (PMiSS, SoPM, BAiJR, etc.), so it's plenty possible to base your impression of them on entirely official materials.

None of this stops fans from filling in the gaps on their own, and some fan interpretations have become so widespread they eclipse the official statements (Satori, Flandre and Koishi come to mind). For me, having invested a lot of emotion and writing into some of them, it is sometimes hard to keep head-canon separate from real canon. The images mingle and tend to get projected over one another.

On the edge of the coin, there are fan interpretations perfectly slotted into established personalities. It is not beyond the realm of plausibility that, say, Kogasa has a few personal relations within the village, or that Sakuya sometimes drops by to do some shopping.

It's all a matter of balance.