#don't come in here defending that trope btw I am not here to debate it

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Fam, I was so ready to defend Yona's honor (despite being a Sidlink shipper) because she seemed like a genuinely cute character but oh boy, seeing the backstory? It's making it so much harder to defend her, eurrghhhh. I hate the "we were childhood friends and basically siblings to each other, but now we've grown up and we're together!!" trope that anime and video games do sometimes. It just squicks me out big time.

Also, confirmation the marriage was arranged!

So yeah I'm just gonna conclude from this "Yona and Sidon are married bc royal duties yadda yadda, but they have An Understanding and Sidon gets to be w/ his Hylian BF while Yona hooks up with someone else (idk Zelda maybe)"

and ignore the whole gross "I basically married my sister" thing entirely

EDITED TO ADD: People coming at me claiming I'm a Yona hater need to chill tf out. I hate the trope, not Yona herself. This post was made immediately after my first exposure to her character, obviously it's going to be hard for me to divorce my view of Yona from that trope right away. I've since managed to do it, and I think fandom has worked hard to salvage her character from that stupid backstory and turn her into something actually enjoyable.

Also, nowhere in here did I claim Sidon x Yona is problematic. I specificially stated the trope squicks me out. That's it. I have a right to find a trope gross.