>>57993692
Just don't open English language social media and only look at Japanese results on sites like Pixiv when it comes to Sapphire fan content.

The weirdest Sapphire interpretations are where westerners make her act emotionless (since "stoic = masculine = cool = better" I guess) when in canon she's almost defined by her extreme emotionality from day 1. Even that single first panel of her in Tarzan mode is just her roaring, she doesn't hold back and expresses everything, which is why her later falling in love and confessing to it is where her existing emotionality crosses with her newfound bravery (vulnerability, being willing to risk getting her feelings hurt). She's literally a sperg, her emotional temperament is both a strength and a weakness while also being a stereotypically female trait: both loving but also impulsive/irrational sometimes.

Canon Ruby is the complete opposite, he's emotionally repressed which is an ironically stereotypically male trait, and also has its pros and cons. It helps him lie, wear masks or look cool/unaffected by things on the surface, especially compared to Sapphire sperging all over the place. But on the inside Ruby's just a total wreck, in a way worse position than Sapphire is, and sometimes everything he's bottled up just explodes and ruins everything.

A big theme of RS (besides heterosexuality) was to not judge a book by its cover. Sapphire turning out to be the nicer more stable character and Ruby being the mentally ill troublemaker is a twist, since appearance wise you'd expect them to be the total opposite. Sapphire looks crazier but Ruby is the actual insane one.

So westerners blindly trying to strip Sapphire of her emotional personality means erasing all of the lore above. As usual.