baby's first minor-character fandom

I can barely manage to write anything about my own fannish activity or about my kids, but apparently my kid's growing fannishness just fascinates me. Junie has been drawing some pictures about "the girl Lilo pushed", Lilo's red-headed frenemy from Lilo and Stitch. In the most recent one, she has a family of other curly-haired redheaded females, they're wearing elaborate flower crowns probably inspired by the hula outfits in the movie, and they're at a big party with cake and balloons etc (a common theme). I asked Junie curiously why she was drawing pictures about "the girl Lilo pushed" and imagining such a nice story for her rather than about Lilo herself and she said that Lilo wasn't nice to her - Lilo had pushed her and bit her. I said I thought she had been mean to Lilo too - that she had said mean things - but Junie said pushing and biting was much worse than saying mean things. I couldn't help but find the whole thing particularly interesting in light of an ongoing unfortunate pattern in a number of fandoms I've been in or around in which characters of color are seen as less interesting, less desirable for shipping, or are judged more harshly. I mean, it's probably just a coincidence, but, like, "let's appropriate the cool style of the Native Hawaiian main character for her annoying white antagonist and give her the big happy ending" would fit right in some places. Also I should probably start teaching Junie about relational aggression.