#i kind of block ppl who ship her with men LMAO

[musicalmoritz]

I yap a lot about how Mitsuba exclusively likes men, but as a raging lesbian and proud himejoshi, I’d like to take a moment to yap about a character who exclusively likes women

And that character is Mei Shijima

Think about it, romance is a major subgenre of tbhk and the only potential love interest Mei has been given was Aoi in the HKOM au. I can’t even remember a time when she interacted with a man in canon (besides No.4 Mei, but she’s a version of Mei so she’s a lesbian too). Not to mention how she’s a bit masculinized compared to the other female characters, often being depicted wearing pants in official arts when the other girls are all wearing skirts; and performing traditionally chivalrous acts with Nene and Aoi. Obviously not all lesbians are masc but stereotypes are often used to further queercoding, similar to how Mitsuba is feminized compared to the other male characters

I know she fell in love with Aoi because of a love potion but they still hung out after it wore off, in fact they hung out so often that it made No.4 Mei jealous of someone stealing her big sister’s attention. Plus Aoimei was a counterpart to Terunene in the first round of pairings for the au, and Terunene is a ship that already has (one-sided) grounding in canon. So it stands out to me that Aoimei was the pairing they depicted alongside it, when there are plenty of other male characters in canon who have unrequited feelings for Aoi (Yokoo and Satou for example). And the fact that they were shown together romantically means AidaIro have thought of them that way at some point

Idk, maybe I’m just too gay to function but Mei is 100% a lesbian in my eyes. I’m picking up what AidaIro are putting down. Real ones remember the TikTok essay I wrote about this