#not the biggest fan of their romance but holy mother of god their parallels make me insane

[rowrowronnie]

needed to get doodle this out of my system

[sugarsculls]

You’ve probably answered this before, but what got you in BlackSun?

this got really long I just have a lot of feelings

It’s a little hard to explain but I just really love supportive relationships that revolve around loyalty and unconditional love. I’ll admit the whole wink-smile-angel choir thing hooked me in but it was the direction their relationship took that really just made me fall in love with them. Yeah, they could have made him like a Jaune (endlessly aiming for the love of someone who would never return it and being annoying about it) but they didn’t. Its clear he has a crush on her but every action he’s ever taken with her was clearly genuine and comes from a place of friendship and care and I really appreciate that. I like we got to see Blake let down her walls around him in a way she didnt do w/ anyone else.

Yeah Blake still has to put her own effort into giving back into this relationship because thus far Sun has really been the giver, but volume 4 showed us the rockiness of their relationship that came from fear and guilt and a lack of understanding which only made their relationship progress at the end of the volume + their relationship development in volume 5 all the better and stronger. Volume 5 was...so god tier for their relationship. They understand each other in a deeply personal and comforting way (and yes, this can only really be achieved through each other, because at the end of the day marginalized people relate better to marginalized people). I really appreciate that while Sun’s crush was very obviously puppy love and Blake reciprocated his flirting in volume 3 (that blush still makes my heart go whoosh) their relationship didn’t flourish or take off because of that. Rather their relationship has grown into something calmer and deeper and so much more beneficial to the plot and each other’s character arcs than just some guy with a crush on main character gets the girl eventually. We are seeing them respect and care for one another. We are seeing a slow burn. I believe Sun has always liked Blake, but in volumes 4 and 5 we get to see the both of them fall a little bit more in love with each other and there’s no doubt in my mind Blake is beginning to realize she’s falling for him and hard. It doesn’t help they’re foils for each other and compliment each other in a way that others really don’t. They balance each other while showing that opposites attract.

They also do bring out the best in each other. Sun was there for Blake to help her cope with her trauma. Once she realized that what she was doing wasn’t healthy or beneficial to her or the people she loved, she was able to take the love and care and that Sun showed her through this really hard time and apply it to save her friend. And through being with Blake, Sun has really calmed down and become more serious and I think she helped him mature. He was so patient with her while in Menagerie that I don’t think anyone else would have truly been able to help her in that manner other than Sun. 

I know people think Yang would have, but the truth is she was damaged, and Blake was obviously a trigger for that damage. That doesn’t mean that now they can’t repair their relationship obviously. They have grown past their traumas, are working to better themselves and their relationship with each other, and Yang clearly forgives Blake, so there’s going some real good payoff, but don’t think it’s an accident that Yang calling out her mother for leaving her was just for Raven -- it was for Blake too, and I expect to see a scene where Yang tells Blake exactly what her leaving did to her. I’m just saying they were both a little too damaged at the time from each other to help bring out the better in each other if that makes sense. Tai and Weiss were able to help Yang out of that depression, because they were able to be patient with her. I don’t think Yang would have been able to fully comprehend the sheer terror that Blake was going through, and considering a lot of this revolved around a marginalized community Yang absolutely would not have had a place in Blake’s arc, especially while dealing with ptsd, ghost pains, and learning how to get used to her arm. 

Sun didn’t really get it at first either, but Blake’s arc also helped him see why the reformed White Fang is something that needed to happen. He may not have known that she was running from the Fang, but he was able to connect the dots that this girl was desperately grieving her shattered relationships and he needed to show her that they are friends, and friends are there for each other through thick and thin. He would do anything to protect her. “I’d do it all again it if meant protecting you” may as well have been a declaration of love. And I’m almost positive Blake sees it that way too. Blake has managed to bring out a more mature side of Sun, and Sun has managed to help bring Blake out that darkness and to move forward. I really, really hope that there’s some payoff for Sun in this relationship and we get to see Blake return the favor and help him move forward from his own past, because I really do think that once we hit Vacuo we are going to be getting some major Sun development.

Yeah, their relationship was rocky in volume 4, I’m not going to deny that - those slaps and the invasion of her privacy were so completely unnecessary, because we never got a scene addressing either. Had there been a scene where they apologize and promise to do better (even if it was just included casually in their talk in chapter 11) then it would have been worth something but let’s be honest here - M and K kinda suck at this sometimes.

Plus I think it speaks volumes that, while Blake was able to slightly open up to her team about Adam and what happened to him, with Sun she was able to open up her past to him and exactly who Adam was to her, both in the past and in the present. He didn’t weed his way in there or force her to tell her; he asked a question and when he saw that she was uncomfortable he backed off. But she said it was ok and then worked her way around the question to tell him who Adam was by explaining a metaphor. I think that’s really important and shows just how much she really trusts Sun.

AND THEN THE VOLUME 5 FINALE HOOOOO BOY this shit was cute as fuck like aside from the fact that there’s definitely gonna be a big showdown between Adam, Yang, Blake, Sun, and HOPEFULLY Ilia we saw Blake’s real feelings for Sun here. She was happy to be with him. She was THANKFUL. I think the biggest indicator that she likely is starting to realize she has feelings for Sun is her pause and smile after she tells sun to be careful and he’s just “no promises” like that smiles was the smile of a woman in LOVE. And that’s so important because I truly cannot believe there are people out there who really think she isn’t grateful for his presence in her life. The way she smiled at him and yelped in a cute manner and SMILED when he wrapped his tail around her her? That was straight out of a romance novel. This is definitely a slow burn relationship that’s being built up with the intention of some really good pay off. 

They also fall into SOOOO many tropes it’s ridiculous but I love it? Because they aren’t forced tropes; they benefit the relationship. They really are opposites that balance each other in an equal way and I love that. I mean come ON day/night, sun/moon, light/shadows, goof/brood, street rat/princess....it’s got every trope I love. The relationship is also a direct opposite parallel to her relationship with Adam. Adam represents the shadows in her life that chained her down; Sun represents that ray of light that helped break her free. ALSO CALLBACKS UGH LOOK AT THIS SHIT???

look at them on their cafe dates

this one WRECKED MY ASS I honestly did not expect Sun’s “maybe later” TO ACTUALLY HAPPEN LATER??

lmao blake and sun are also a gender reversed version of her parents and that’s So Fucking Valid

get that damn door fixed will you, ghira

THEY ARE SO TROPEY IN A WAY THAT NOT REALLY EVEN OTHER ROMANTIC CODED RELATIONSHIPS ARE??? I love it. Which is why 100% Blake is going to change her word for Sun. She was set on her words for her team, but when Sun asked his she could have EASILY left it as “I’ve settled for earnest” but no she says

which is a CLEAR INDICATION that there’s going to be a callback to this. Knowing their relationship’s callback history, that word is absolutely going to change. It could change into something like light or hope but I’m so confident she’s going to call him love. Blake talked about Adam, and how her word for him changed over time and how she saw him because the words she used to describe him were just what she thought not what she decided. Eventually after seeing who Adam truly was, what he represented to her, that’s when I realized holy shit they just set up the perfect opportunity for a huge romantic shift in Blake’s relationship with Sun. This talk about really did solidify my view on their relationship and how I really do think they’re going to be endgame. I’m not denying the validity behind any other ships, it’s just what I personally think and gravitate towards and what I really do believe - not just from a fan’s point of view, but objectively from one writer to another. I’m not a professional, but also I do know storytelling and more importantly relationship development. It’s obvious. It’s there. It’s plain as day.

I really believe she’s going to call him love. I’ll admit it came from purely a shippers pov at first, but as I began thinking about the history of their relationship, the history of blake and adam’s relationship, how many tropes and callbacks are applied to sun and blake, and just overall how the narrative has painted sun in comparison to adam who is his foil (and they are foils, you can have characters be foils to multiple characters but to deny that there’s no sort of connection between adam and blake’s relationship and how it’s the complete opposite of her relationship with sun is just blatantly ignoring canon writing) it became clear to me that this is all intentional. Doesn’t help that, you know, monkey king (sun) vs demon bull (adam) is a thing that happened in journey to the west sooooo.

*coughs* also I hate using song lyrics as proof bc we all know the songs aren’t canon but uhhh “until you finally see the love that is me” (lmfn, Sun’s rap, speaking about him wanting Blake to see the love he is and can offer her - and she does) and “we change the spite (Adam) to love (Sun)” I mean they might not be canon but it certainly applies to actual canon.

But you know I’m just a blind blacksun shipper idk what I’m talking about.

I went off on a HUGGEE tangent sorry lmao I just have a LOT of feelings about Sun and Blake as characters and a relationship and how the possibility for where their relationship is clearly being set up to go is just so good? Idk I love them so much they make me so happy. ngl I’m gonna be a little heartbroken if Sun doesn’t go with the team to Atlas lmao bc they’ll be missing out on a great opportunity to start some solo development for him because he clearly has a place in this story and the endgame to Blake’s.