#but its def the most forced thing in rwby atm

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Same anon as before. Its pretty obvious that bumbleby will be canon. I like both, both are super cute but blacksun would feel forced now. Like the natural progression for a romantic relationship has passed i think. I also really like sun as blakes best friend and hope we see them being bros in vaccuo

Yeah, bb is likely to be canon now, but i definately do not think it was because of good writing. The entirety of the blake love plot has been handled so ,,,weird?? No matter what they do now its gonna be anything but natural because of how screwed up v7 made everything.

I dont want to sound jerky with this but to be 100% with you anon, i feel like its bb that is incredibly forced. Ive ranted about bb a few times in my rwde ask responses so i dont wanna blab for too long, but i think they had a good thing going with blacksun. Their relationship-and the romantic side of it- had been on an incline since they met in v1, and they were not subtle with it. They have yet to show blake and sun lose their attraction to eachother on screen. Its as if ppl think in order for A to like B, A has to be simping and frothing at the mouth over B at all times. I dont think blacksun was written flawlessly, but when i compare it to bb, i feel like it just had way more effort put into it, way more meat on its skeleton. Plus, In-universe, the menagerie arc did not happen that long ago, so for blake to suddenly start getting all fluffy with yang when she was *very recently* flirting and bonding with sun, and having only thought about yang ONCE on screen during that time (where she equates her love towards yang as the same as her love for ruby and weiss) and having shown zero romantic interest in yang before the v3 finale, makes everything seem very unearned. Its just rly hard to buy that these two have had pent up, blossoming romantic feels for eachother the whoLe time which are now at long last getting to explode now that theyre finally together again because Adam died, and cuz sun left the plot. Im not saying their moments in v7 werent romantic, they were deliberately so, im just annoyed cuz bb seem to have gone from 0 to 100 with little to no explanation in between. Why do they like eachother? How many times have blake and yang ever sat down and gotten to know eachother and banter? Does yang know anything about the WF? Does blake know anything about yang besides that her word id “strength” ?They never properly address any of the dirty laundry between them. They never show how blake reaches the conclusion that “oh ‘ill protect you is the wrong answer,,,,,’we’ll protect eachother’ must be the right answer!!” Theyre so detatched from the main plot of the show and exist like theyre in their own bubble, glued at the hip, and the whole thing seems to have happened out of nowhere. So yeah after introducing all that, it would be odd to jump back to bs, except this time it would be bb theyre pretending never had feelings for eachother.

I genuinely do not think they planned to have bb be endgame since years ago when they were first creating rwby man :/ And thats why i find their foundation as a romantic pair to be lacking. I think rt saw how rabid the fandom was for bb, since they’re very close to the community, and thats why theyre pushing it so hard now and selling overpriced bb sweaters in their store. Theyve written themselves into a corner cuz they know they’ll recieve HUGE backlash if they dont go with bb, if they learned anything from the fairgame situation. Thats another reason why i find this whole bb/blake love fest so exhausting; i dont even think theyre doing it to genuinely rep lgbt fans (cuz idk what other purpose having blake and yang get together serves besides acting as some rep,,,their relationship doesnt affect the main story in any real way like say monochrome would, and blake hasnt done anything meaningful for yang besides act as a source of very negative emotions tHat tHEY DONT EVEN ADDRESS) It comes off as a blatant cry of “look!!! See how woke we are!!!111 Buy a first member subscription!!! :DD”