#my bias can only think of elizanor because eleanor is only a year younger and before i made that revelation even it was only two years
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one of the things I have gradually realised over time after the brainrot of being constantly online started to fade was how shipping culture always 1) favoured the men and 2) really ignored age differences and every time i remember I was guilty of that too once upon a time i just stare into the void and hear nothing but static because god that is so much regret
so of course one of the things I hated was everyone shipping Elizabeth with men much older than her, like players who were shipping her with Booker before they got to the reveal were knowingly shipping an 18 to 19 year old girl with a man twice her age and the closest to a "flirty" interaction they ever had was just Elizabeth asking if there was a woman in his life. yes i'm aware there are still people who ship them after that reveal but that's a them problem
And Elizabeth never gets older than 19 by the latest instalment in Burial at Sea if you presume she went hunting for Bookerstock ASAP, so then you had people shipping her with Atlas because people have that thing about shipping women with the men who hold them prisoner and/or torture them as their big meaningful interactions (see early Zu/tara and Rey/lo), and then you have them shipping her with Jack despite them having never interacted, Jack having no personality or character by design because he's an insert for the player, and where biologically and mentally Jack is in his mid-20s.
BioShock is kind of a wasteland when it comes to fandom shipping as it is because you have to go really deep into headcanon or just flat out ignore key interactions and canonical relationships and events, and I think with how fandom portrayed Elizabeth and shipping her most of the time it felt telling of the attitude of shipping women with anyone in general, because in just having to have Elizabeth be romantically involved with someone it was usually a man who was much older than her.
#bioshock#bioshock infinite#elizabeth comstock#i have been online since i was 13 and let me tell you#i have seen some shit that i didn't understand until yeeeaaars later#i don't think there's been any ships for elizabeth within bioshock canon that has a relatively healthy dynamic#my bias can only think of elizanor because eleanor is only a year younger and before i made that revelation even it was only two years#of course eleanor is a girl and because wlw ships for these two are rare i don't think she counts
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