#im not saying anything new but i feel like some western caleb girlies are living in delusion

[astras-ender]

okay i was too p*sy to say it on monday but it's christmas so fuck it: (beware super long post)

THAT MAN IS ABSOLUTELY MEANT TO BE MC'S BROTHER

and that's okay. the sooner we accept this FACT, the better. (im talking to you tiktok and twitter)

i've seen too many c-dramas and manhuas and can easily recognize the trope when i see it. and many, if not all CN players themselves have said that's what it is. (not to mention every other translation refer to caleb as 'brother' or 'non blood related brother')

it's just for some reason, ENG translations must think we're too sensitive for that kind of trope and have changed it to 'childhood best friend' (maybe bc we have a history of not being able to distinguish fiction and reality and can't read btwn the lines)

this is fanart commissioned by Love and Deepspace THEMSELVES:

the apple and serpent have long been a symbol of forbidden-ness bc of adam and eve, and there's nothing forbidden or taboo about dating your childhood friend. but there certainly is when that someone is your adopted brother 👀

the pseudo-incest is the draw and the 'forbidden love' of it all is what gets the girlies giggling and kicking their feet, just like us girlies who love sylus and his criminal ass

it does not mean there are people who actively want to fuck their siblings (blood-related or otherwise) just like how we would run in the other direction if sylus was a real person

so enough with the "b-b-but we can't be related!!" bc he definitely is lmaooo

and more importantly enough with the unnecessary ass bullying 🙄