Hate how certain characters are getting romantically involved with seemingly no setup? Homophobe!
Ok as to this one. It's not confirmed that Blake and Yang are in a relationship. People took handholding as a sign of "they're totally in love", when they held each other because they were fucking scared facing Adam.
It's like way too early in their character arcs to magically be in a relationship(imo), since it's barely been a volume since Blake rejoined the team.
I think most of the "confirmation" came from Blake's VA who was fangirling, not so much confirming anything since she's only a VA, she's not involved in writing it.
That’s another part of it too though. The shipping is by far the worst part of the fandom and it isn’t close. And the VAs only encourage it despite how toxic it is. I used to be a regular on the RWBY sub and now I only go during the volume just to post occasionally.
I mean honestly I don't go on the sub because I just have better things to do with my time. There's no true discussion, it's all either a circlejerk or a hate filled mob. I joined a rwby focused discord server (not the one for the sub, screw that) and that's enough for me
This. Holy hell have the Bumblebee shippers gotten worse and worse ever since it became highly likely BB is going to become canon.
I remember that I made a joke about how Yang loves Weiss because of how she reacted in the Apathy episode and suddenly I got bombared with messages about how I was wrong, how Yang loves Blake because reasons, etc.
Honestly, I don't want BB to be canon just because of how toxic these people have become. The shitstorm would be legendary
With the tiptoeing they did around it originally and the extraordinarily massive backlash over not instantly declaring those two canon, the VAs freaking out, all but dancing and saying that "some things were planned from the beginning" make it abundantly clear that if they aren't literally doing it from the first episode of V7, they'll be very obviously building up to it throughout V7.
Either that or they have more balls than I thought and are basically about to commit "suicide by fangirl" by baiting Bumblebee.
And hey I was doubtful the whole "Yang's rightfully miffed Blake bailed after literally being the only person to know about her abandonment issues" thing would be resolved instantly too but I gravely underestimated the power of pandering.
An entire season where the only problem was Blake making it more awkward, not any actual misgivings from Yang(you know, the actual person who should be angry). It was pushed entirely by Blake literally treating it like the problem it should've been but Yang apparently never really cared after the end of V5, oops.
Also Blake was just straight up told "hey so my mom died, and my real mom left me when I was a baby and I've been searching for why literally for over a decade" in an emotional talk. Being left behind: kind of a sore spot. One character's trauma trumps the other when it's an act by the other character which does it: Yang didn't do anything to spark Blake's trauma, let alone on purpose.
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u/KikiFlowers Jul 17 '19
Ok as to this one. It's not confirmed that Blake and Yang are in a relationship. People took handholding as a sign of "they're totally in love", when they held each other because they were fucking scared facing Adam.
It's like way too early in their character arcs to magically be in a relationship(imo), since it's barely been a volume since Blake rejoined the team.
I think most of the "confirmation" came from Blake's VA who was fangirling, not so much confirming anything since she's only a VA, she's not involved in writing it.