a LOT of people tend to write the character through tinted glasses
That's what I mean by "flaw-scrubbing" -- letting your love of a character make you elide their less pleasant character traits. Sometimes without even realizing that you're doing it. Ex: if you have a fic scenario where the character could plausibly react either in a sympathetic way or like an asshole, you the flaw-scrubbing writer pick the sympathetic way every time, and even though each individual instance isn't actually OOC, they add up to a shinier, better version of the character than actually occurs in canon.
Re: Eh, basically, the thing is this:
That's what I mean by "flaw-scrubbing" -- letting your love of a character make you elide their less pleasant character traits. Sometimes without even realizing that you're doing it. Ex: if you have a fic scenario where the character could plausibly react either in a sympathetic way or like an asshole, you the flaw-scrubbing writer pick the sympathetic way every time, and even though each individual instance isn't actually OOC, they add up to a shinier, better version of the character than actually occurs in canon.