>>Suffice to say that I'm 100% okay with awful!Rumlow fics, but there should still be room here for a more nuanced characterisation of him as well
Um, I did actually say that I wanted room for both interpretations? My interpretation of "canon" Rumlow is not the only version, or even the only version I'm writing/reading myself - there's the academical approach to canon analysis and then there's what we do here, and those are two completely different things. My beef was with the OP being "uncomfortable" with Rumlow being portrayed as even the least bit sympathetic and claiming it violated the forum rules. I'm not the one wanting to limit Rumlow's characterisation!
Re: Rumlow
Um, I did actually say that I wanted room for both interpretations? My interpretation of "canon" Rumlow is not the only version, or even the only version I'm writing/reading myself - there's the academical approach to canon analysis and then there's what we do here, and those are two completely different things. My beef was with the OP being "uncomfortable" with Rumlow being portrayed as even the least bit sympathetic and claiming it violated the forum rules. I'm not the one wanting to limit Rumlow's characterisation!