I think that the argument of “it’s not your character to decide” is a poor argument because people do a similar thing with ignoring the script changes to Ricky’s disability. Not the same thing but still fits the “changing an aspect of canon because canon did a shit job at representation”. The whole thing of “Misha not Mischa” comes from the fact that Mischa Bachinski is a romanized version of Міша Бачинські, but when using Ukrainian romanization rules, it becomes Misha Bachynskyi. Mischa Bachinski is a name using Russian romanization rules. Real actual Ukrainians have their names russified for so long, and it is a real world issue involving the oppression of Ukrainian people. We are not demanding to Jacob Richmond that he change the name in the script, it is simply something we add to fanworks and tumblr posts to be respectful to Ukrainian people. It is not meant to deliberately disrespect Richmond, but when some part of canon does a poor job at representation, doesn’t it make sense to modify it in fanworks?