#that oomf that doesnt play around when it comes to sanegiyuu

[koumystic]

Sanegiyuu is not enemies to lovers

I have been in this fandom for a while and a big misconception I keep reading for this ship is that it falls under the enemies to lovers trope, and it pisses me off how easily people can misconcept a whole ship because etl is a popular trope.

First, because its self contradictory —they cant't be enemies when they are in the same side, they are fighting demons and their main goal is to kill Muzan, they are HASHIRAS for a reason— so the trope falls apart to begin with. Moreover people just assume they are enemies because they hate each other, which is a clear (and unfortunately very common) misconception of their relationship, first of all because its one-sided (Giyuu does not hate Sanemi at all, on the contrary he wants to be friends with him, he just thinks he is hotheaded) and Sanemi's hatred towards Giyuu is a minsunderstanding, he hates his perception of Giyuu, the 'i am different from the rest of you' which the reader knows he didn't say that with that intention —quite the opossite, actually. (And Giyuu is canonically horrible at communication and frequently his words doesnt match to what he truly thinks, hence you have to understand why Sanemi would jump to that conclusion, and why other hashiras have had a negative comment related to his attitude).

Heck, once the misunderstanding is cleared at the end of the story, we see them smiling at each other and eating out together, something that would not happen if they hated each other as much as the fandom depict them to be (and again, this reinforces the fact that Sanemi hated Giyuu only because of his own impression, once he understood Giyuu's true self we see them enjoying each other's presence).

Just a little rant because i hate the 'sanegiyuu is enemies to lovers' because its both a misconception and mischaracterization, and diminishes their complex relationship and development throughout the manga, leading to people dislike/hate sngy or inviting the haters to take it as an opportunity to spread it further because the fandom will take it for granted rather than using critical thinking skills, both creating a false image of what its truly sngy about (as in people just taking the "enemies" part as a fact to have a solid reason to hate on it, not because they are interested on a queer ship considering how homophobic this fandom is). It's not like its very difficult to understand it but either people are lacking media literacy (very common in the kny fandom) or they just want to shove the etl trope into a ship because for some reason every fandom got a fixated ship where they throw all their misconceptions to make this trope fit/work even though they dont know the implications of what it truly makes them enemies.

If i were the one to give sanegiyuu/giyuusane a trope, miscommunication is the one that fits them better and the most painfully obvious i would say.

Sorry for the rant but i had to get this off my chest, i hate when people say they ship it and it turns out they dont understand neither the ship or the characters but an idea of what they would like them to be instead 😭 also i know there is people who take it as a joke or make their own AUs with this trope, which is okay! but i dont think associating etl as the main trope for sanegiyuu catches (realistically) their relationship in canon