A specific piece of fan-invented lore, backstory, or character trait — never stated or confirmed anywhere in the official source material — that a fandom has collectively agreed to treat as if it were real, distinct from 'Fanon Expansion,' which names the ongoing growth process by which more and more of this material gets accepted, rather than any single invented detail itself.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That whole 'they grew up on the same street' backstory is pure fanon, it's never once been in the actual show."
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Blended from 'fan' and 'canon,' coined by fanfiction communities to name unofficial lore specifically because it needed to be distinguished from actual canon, whether or not it was ever spreading or growing.
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