Villain
[aro rambling]
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I want a story about a boy and a girl who go on an adventure and get close and talk a lot about how much they mean to each other
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And then half way through one of them hooks up with someone else
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And they’re just like ”nice”
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Because there was no romantic tension at all
Quinn Angstrom
I feel like I've seen this in something and it ruled exactly as much as you think it would, but it's not coming to me. I'm subscribing to your newsletter
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Because my nemesis is the statement “men and women can’t be just friends”
Quinn Angstrom
I might just be thinking of jun and eleanor
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It’s an absurdly reductive statement about the infinite variations of human interaction
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Quinn Angstrom : shit that WAS Jun and Eleanor
Quinn Angstrom
except their hookups were mostly postcanon
oh i'm scary
this is one of the things that hold up about Akame ga Kill?
oh i'm scary
might be what Quinn's thinking of
oh i'm scary
"oh god it's gonna be a har--no he's just dating one of the girls, huh. not even the most plot important one. huh."
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The fistbump+”nice” is an important part
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Though the whole Akame/Tatsumi/Mine thing was pretty good
Echo
I am extremely here for this.
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I’m just picturing the moment
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Where one of them catches the other slipping out of someone’s bedroom
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And there’s just this moment of tension as you aren’t sure how they’re gonna react
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And then
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For maximum effect neither of them should be gay
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Or it should be two wlw girls or two mlm boys
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So the option of them dating WAS on the table
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They’re just like “nah”
Quinn Angstrom
one way or another, A's hookup the same gender as B
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Unless A is bi
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Hmm no I think Quinn is right
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For maximum impact
dragon time
Rukia and Ichigo had pretty good CR and they did get a lot of shipping but like,
dragon time
The vibe between them was like the vibe between two guys in an action series who the fandom is gonna ship really hard because they're super close and emotionally invested in each other
Villain
Rukia and Ichigo were actually almost EXACTLY what I’m talking about
dragon time
And one of them lives in the other ones closet
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I actually liked the abridged bleach interpretation of like
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Ichigo, Renji, Orihime, and Rukia just bring a vaguely confused polyblob
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But anime action show romance subplots are their own can of worms
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Where a “ship” is often them occasionally looking at each other for two hundred episodes
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And making ambiguous comments about being important to each other
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In my bleach au Orihime and Ichigo start dating after the soul society arc and no one makes a huge deal about it
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Or Orihime and Tatsuki
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I don’t even care who hooks up with who just fucking commit to something
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A story about two people who are attracted to each other but afraid to commit to anything isn’t inherently bad
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But I just KEEP ON SEEING IT
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Where they just kind of orbit around each other and flail and blush without doing anything until the ten years later epilogue where they are married and have two children
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You know what it’s ESPECIALLY egregious when combined with how girl characters are often neutered by the plot from doing anything cool
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If you’re a cool action girl then you can’t win fights or you’ll take attention away from the boys but you also can’t date any of the boys because then you’d be...I don’t know
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Pushy or a slut or something
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So all you can do is hang out in the background and look hot and worried
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What a fucking waste of a character
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The ramble is rapidly turning into a rant
Echo
You're not wrong, though.
AzureChrysanthemum
Honestly Ichigo and Rukia's relationship was one of the things I still absolutely love to this day about Bleach
AzureChrysanthemum
They're just platonic bros
AzureChrysanthemum
And that's totally OK
Quinn Angstrom
it's great
AzureChrysanthemum
I similarly appreciate that about a lot of the student council members in later manga Kaguya-sama
AzureChrysanthemum
Ishigami and Kaguya's relationship in particular I adore
Villain
A: "So did you tap that?"
B: "Bro I tapped that so many times I wrote Hamlet in morse code"
A: "Daaaaaaaaaaaamn!"
A Grinning DM
This was what made me stop watching Star vs. the Forces of Evil
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Cringy love triangle?
A Grinning DM
I totally dug it when Marco and Star were just friends and Star was Marco's wingman to get with Jackie and then.... the writers just couldn't help themselves to make the two main characters get together because one's a boy and the other a girl
A Grinning DM
It went for at least 2 seasons with them just being platonic besties iirc
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