If you don't go so much for the canon, it may be, in the end there are people who are not guided by the initial route of the canon, just like sometimes they change the height and skin color of some characters in the Dsmp-
(No hate to the ship) dream: OMG YESSS A GUY TORTURED ME FOR MONTHS THATS SO HOT PLEASE BE MY PARTNER 😍😍😍😍😍 (I kinda like this ship now that i know it exists)