#Now I don't engage with Inutwitter and I don't know if something specific happened to spike Inukag bashing

[shinidamachu]

Have you heard the latest fandom drama on Twitter? Sessrinners are starting to bash InuKag and are calling them a “bland ship.” Jokes on them, I think they’re just jealous that InuKag have what their ship will never, which is actual chemistry. Even if you introduced Rin as an adult but kept everything else the same they’d still be a very bland, boring ship. Sesshomaru barely even speaks to Rin, she has more dynamic interaction with Jaken. It’s just an extremely basic and safe “pure girl defrosts ice king” ship, meanwhile InuKag’s chemistry is always sizzling, what makes them such a great match in particular is how they’re both so opposite yet also really similiar at the same time, because Kagome is just as feisty & temperamental as him so you always get really entertaining back & forths between them and there’s never a dull moment when they’re both on screen. I’d even rather watch their high drama moments like love triangle bs then the snorefest that occurs when Sessrin come on screen, as annoying as it can be at least it actually keeps me engaged. They’re projecting because they know their ship is the actual bland & boring one, not InuKag.

You're right. They are jealous that Inukag have what their ship will never have. However, that's not limited to romantic chemistry only (and I add "romantic" here because sᴇssʜᴏᴍᴀʀᴜ and ʀɪɴ did have chemistry, but it was exclusively fraternal).

Something else Inuyasha and Kagome have that sᴇssʀɪɴ lacks is an epic love story, that we saw start, then shift, then develop, then push, then pull. It not only made sense for the narrative, but for both characters, in a sense that made them grow as individuals and as a couple. The show breathed life into their dynamic as much as their dynamic breathed life into the show.

Above everything, Inukag was validated time and time again by the original author and either people liked the pairing or not, it was widely accepted within the fandom as absolute canon while sᴇssʀɪɴ was discredit by Takahashi as a platonic bond between guardian and his ward and it is only accepted as canon by its shippers. Antis will never validate it and neutrals supposedly do not care either way. That's the majority of the fandom being indifferent to it or straight up hating on it.

And that's what they can't stand.

They know that their ship is problematic otherwise they wouldn't need to age her up, retcon the way they met, erase sᴇssʜᴏᴍᴀʀᴜ's visits or go that extra mile to display ʀɪɴ as the dominant partner to make up for the power imbalance that came from sᴇssʜᴏᴍᴀʀᴜ holding a place of authority over her for the entirety of their canon interactions.

They know that the way the relationship was depicted in the sequel was unsatisfactory and it only served to proof our points. The producers themselves have stated they don't know how to write this pairing in a romantic light because that's not how they were portrayed in the original material.

But shippers could never admit any of that because that would mean admiting they were wrong. So what do they do? They try to turn very serious issues into a ship war (even with Inukag, that was never even a rival ship) in the hopes that this deception could trick the rest of us into thinking both sides are on equal foot morally speaking.

And to do that, they don't hype up their ship. They know it wouldn't work and that their best chance is to try to bring other ships down to their level instead, so that's what they do. Hands the bashing. because that's their modus operandi.

Their arguments basically come down to "oh, but Sesskagu is just as bad," "oh, but Kogayame was just as creepy", "oh, but Inukag was abusive as well," "oh, but Mirsan is problematic too," and they are a lot of bullshit, but they'll keep doing it.

Because if they can't convince us at least they can still try to convince themselves.