Meiling usually gets the worst of it. For some reason. I'm still baffled as to why fandom likes to bully her the way it does. At least for a few characters, their fanon personalities come from canon (however exaggerated they may be), but for poor Hong, it's like everyone agreed to COMPLETELY ignore her canon facts and turn her into another Komachi. Yeah, Komachi. She's the slacker in canon, isn't she?
Also, I do find the "China" nickname a bit insulting. It's like calling a black guy Africa (that example might be a bit extreme, but ...there's my point).
It's not only Meiling, but characters like Cirno, Alice, Reimu, Sakuya, Keine, Utsuho and even Rinnosuke that get screwed over by the fandom. Why do they make Cirno retarded? Why did they change Alice's personality just because she teamed up with Marisa ONLY ONCE? Why is Reimu portrayed as a selfish, greedy money hog? Why is Sakuya a knife throwing maniac? I could literally go on and on.
Now I'm not saying that the fandom shouldn't have it's fun. But you can still have fun with the character in canon! You don't have to make up whatever pops into your head and decide that's your canon!
Sometimes I feel like crying whenever I see Tenshi's portrayal in fanon. Seriously, there is no explicit implication in canon at all that she is a masochist. The "punish me" quote is more of a taunt, much like how villains sometimes taunt heroes/heroines by telling them to defeat them or else the world will be destroyed or something like that.
THANK YOU! What Tenshi said was just a taunt! And if I remember right,
Tenshi only said that line once.
To Youmu. But this makes my point about how the fandom exaggerates. It also comes to show how sensitive they can be to just one small utterance. I mean just because Suwako, Patchouli and Utusho said "A~u", "Mukyuu" and "Unyu" respectively (and only ONCE might I add), suddenly, they're catchphrases. Cute ones, nevertheless, but still.