Minghao! I actually really like writing Minghao. For ME PERSONALLY I really like to lean into the self-righteous, insufferable, advice-giving aspect of his personality because I think it’s interesting (remember the gose where he just started instructing Hoshi on his to live his life LOL). It’s not that I think it’s the sum total of his personality but rather that, perhaps as someone who has jumped into the fandom at a later stage, that trait is VERY noticeable to me? It also makes him super useful in fic because you can just neatly mobilize him to cause some friction or reflection in another character. I also tend to headcanon that he has a lot of personal development goals, but quite different that how I imagine Mingyu to. More like… he wants to become this better and more admirable person but questions his ability to do so which makes him even more determined to do it, versus Mingyu who really doesn’t have those same self-esteem struggles. I feel like the advice-giving dimension of Minghao does help me understand why fic authors have used him to explore self-esteem struggles, but the advice-giving is something I’ve seen in irl friends who have discovered all these solutions or gone to therapy and etc and now can’t quite stop themselves from trying to dole out all those strategies to other people… had to tell my friend to stop giving me advice once lol, it was a good conversation 💕 Not sure how well Minghao would take it if he was told to stuff it though HA but that’s just good for fic 😊