#they're lesbians and also a yaoi couple

[rowlfthedog]

In this shot Gonzo is saying “I actually signed up for a seminar on mildew”

[taniushka12]

im actually kinda sad i didnt add my other two tma ocs to artfight bc they're p funny too and id love fanart of em :(

[yellowocaballero]

i very much enjoy the extremely scientific analysis of the naruto verse in which there are three genders, aka naruto, sasuke, and Woman.

AM I WRONG? AM I WRONG? pulls down projection screen and plays powerpoint

Obviously let's give room for nuance. A ton of Naruto characters don't fall into these gender norms. This does predominantly apply to the rampant proliferation of the three-person dynamics that were assigned by the government and dictate your entire life. And, like, society. It does not end. Gender isn't a biological factor in Naruto, it's a social dynamic constructed entirely by your homoerotic tension with other men. And there are so many.

Madara (S), Hashirama (N), Mito (W). Izuna (N) and Tobirama (S) - tragically, Izuna died before women could be invented. Sarutobi (N), Danzo (S, horrifically) - see above about women not being invented yet. Jiraiya (N), Orochimaru (S), Tsunade (W). Yahiko (N), Nagato (S), Konan (W). Obito (N), Kakashi (S), Rin (W). Shisui (N), Itachi (S), that little deeply unimportant girlfriend (W). Um, fucking, Naruto (N), Sasuke (S), Sakura (W). Even - even, fuckin, Rock Lee (N), Neiji (S), Tenten (W).

And what do they all have in common????

(OT3. They're all OT3s. Is what I'm saying).

There is some room for alternative gender expressions here, like being butch or femme. Naruto gender expressions: teacher, otouto, woman who you can't even tell is woman gendered because she has no backstory but you just have to kinda assume that she has a polycule-based backstory where she was Woman Gender. I feel almost as if 2/3rds of the Rookie 9 are liberated from this. InoShikaCho just doesn't fit (their chaotic cousin energy is just too strong and Ino's too much of a lesbian). Hinata's too busy being defined entirely by a different throuple's N to have codependent dynamics with her own N and S (and I'm hesitant to even say that, since I actually don't know if Kiba and Shino have a codependent rivalry - do they?).

I get, like, the reason for all of this. Curse of Hatred. Cycles. N and S Genders being sourced from demigods or something. Narrative parallelism. Sympathy points. It's not the bad guy's fault he's evil, his N and W gendered counterparts died :(. But an extremely strange side-effect of this is that all of the male characters are, like, Just Naruto or Just Sasuke. But the vast majority of the female characters are - like, completely defined by the men in their lives - but also they are more likely to be a unique person. Mito, Sakura, and Rin have actually nothing in common. Writing so sexist it creates more interesting characters?!?!

Unironically, this is why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the ship of all time, nothing will ever top it, you will NEVER do it like Sasunaru, etc. Every important relationship in the series is meant to evoke Sasunaru. (Notably, none of the explicitly romantic ones. But we're beyond such paltry understandings of the most iconic pairing of all time as fundamentally based in romance. We're operating on a higher level than that). This unbroken chain of toxic yaoi has culminated at the end point of Sasunaru, and it exists to parallel Sasunaru and define their relationship by the dysfunction of generations of tragedy. That's why Naruto has to consciously break the cycle and free them from the generational hate - it was the only way to save Sasuke. This is also why I'm always saying that Sasunaru is the point of Naruto, and that the entirety of Naruto is about Sasunaru. Come back to me when your work has invented new genders in the all-encompassing pursuit of toxic yaoi.

This also means that the only truly gender non-conforming individuals in Naruto are its mightiest heterosexuals: Minato (W) and Kushina (N). Truly insane. The N/S/W configuration is the societal norm, it's bonkers to make a major good-aligned male character a wifeguy. By Naruto standards Minato and Kushina are the only queer couple.

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Following this blog is making me realize I really don't think I get what makes shipping appealing to most people.

Like, whats all this about character dynamics being more important than gender? How do you get invested in and want to see a relationship if your not attracted to at least one of the characters? Are there really straight dudes and lesbians out there reading / watching yaoi & straight girls and gay dudes out there reading / watching yuri?

Also not sure why people get invested in ships between characters that basically never interact or both have incompitable orientations or especially one where both have a mutual hatred of each other in canon.

Like, unless it has the potential to appeal to a very specific kink or fetish I have, I think almost all the ships I've submitted here involve at least one character that canonically has a one-sided crush or attraction to the other.

Is this the reason people think im a pedo for shipping child characters with eachother :(

If you need to find at least one of the characters attractive, it probably means you're shipping in a self-insert way, or like... to wank to them or something. I think most people just like exploring character dynamics in writing, their imagination or art.

That's also why it's so much fun to ship enemies together. There's so much more to explore when you think about the path they would need to go on in order to date, rather than a couple that are already attracted to eachother. At least in my opinion. (And enemies tend to follow the same patterns that people with crushes do, since they're obsessed with the other person). Light and L want eachother dead or in prison and they are probably the most popular death note ship because of it. Those two think about eachother 24/7.

And for characters that don't interact in canon, it's fun to imagine "what could have been" or what could happen post-canon, pre-canon etc. And sometimes it's just for fun. Shipping in general is just for fun and doesn't have to be taken seriously.

And if we're going into my personal experience - i'm mostly attracted to men but I think yuri is fun to read/watch. I also like gay romance, and sometimes straight romance. Romance is romance. yknow. It helps to imagine that heterosexuality isn't the default for everyone. A lot of writers miss out on good pairings because they make their characters strictly hetero. (just a personal opinion, writers choices should be respected, etc etc)

It just sounds like you're shipping with your hand down your pants.

(Also if anyone wants to respond to this, please write a comment or a reblog instead of sending me an ask!)

[gayelderstourney]

OLD MAN YAOI BRACKET ROUND 1

Propaganda:

Ilya Tchaiko/Seichirou Agawa:

DEAR GOD BRO. you don't actually learn about the two of them until later in the manga but tchaiko is always talking about his record player that "an old friend" gave him and how much he loves music. in volume three we get some of their backstory and we find out it was seichirou that gave him the record player!!! we see them go on a few record buying dates and dancing together and it is truly unbearably sweet. i believe they are somewhere between 60 and 70? they met in college and have been together for 30 years, but seichirou got married and had a kid before then. in present day though seichirou is sick in the hospital. tchaiko visits him everyday though he makes sure he only visits when seichirou's son won't be there. this means he gets less time to spend with him :( finally, on the day of the main lesbian couple's wedding, tchaiko gets a text from seichirou's son saying he's in critical condition. tchaiko hesitates to go because he's scared but a mutual friend of theirs pushes him to go. when he gets there we get a sort of dream like visual where seichiro floats out of bed to hold tchaiko, looking how he did before he got sick, and they tell each other they loved spending their lives together. and then seichirou dies. it's soooooooooo sad that shit makes me cry every fucking time bro i cried getting the pictures but it's also soooooooo sweet love is so beautiful. AYUGH.

The manga has alot of different characters going through different things in their life, but all of these are different LGBTQ+ issues. These two are husbands who have spent most of their life together, and now have to accept that death will do them part. They often exchange classical music reccomandations that Tchaiko will play while Seichirou is in hospital and vice versa. Seichirou also has a son from a previous marriage so the manga touches on their relationship aswell. And (spoiler warning) but Seichirou dies from old age at the end of the manga and the scene is, while sad, also very heartwarming, as his son kind of realises the relationship the two of them have and tells him that "his favourite person is here"

Heavy/Medic:

They are referred to as boyfriends in an achievement (Beaux and Arrows) and on the official page for the End of the Line sfm it's described as "an action packed cinematic romp full of comedy action, romance action*, drama action, and actioney-type action.", there are no women in the sfm.

pretty sure they're both over 50 judging by some lines in the comic and their appearances (when the medic is asking satan to be put back on earth he says "another 50 years", implying he already lived for 50 years before he died). these two are typically seen together in canon as an unstoppable duo, and they are the KINGS of romanticizing surgery.

[victimsofyaoipoll]

Round 2

Propaganda Under Cut

Mel Medarda

she is the richest woman in piltover who left her family because she didn't agree with the way they did things (conquering and murdering). she sponsors jayce and viktor, and courts jayce, which makes people upset because, you know, jayvik. she and viktor are CANONICALLY parallels with much of their imagery mirroring the other's and they are literally the same height. and people are so weird and misogynist and racist about her. they argue she is manipulating jayce and doesn't actually love him. i am cognitively disabled and cannot explain things well, but, she is so fucking shouldered

Black woman who has a romantic arc with one of the main characters Jayce. Jayce has a best friend called Viktor and their relationship is pretty important plot wise, shown as a direct contrast to his relationship with Mel even though only one is canonically sexual/romantic. So naturally fandom as the transformative safe haven it is villainized Mel horribly coming up with theories about how instead of being a complex morally grey character she's actually evil and just wants to seduce Jayce for Evil Reasons. Since they couldn't use her as a supportive female friend with no personality, others just ignored her existence entirely or acted like Jayce would ditch her for Viktor. Majority of m/m shippers will reduce her down to her relationship with Jayce and an obstacle in the way of JayVik, ironically writing her as a far worse and less complex version of the character we get on screen. The misogyny reeks and combined with the racism? It's a pretty bad case. Only slightly mitigated due to the fact that the main characters of the show are women (and the lead is a lesbian) so thankfully the male focus of fandom is lessened as opposed to filling almost every inch. Still awful to try and search for good Mel content, godspeed girlies with taste.

She's one of the most interesting characters on the show, a rich politician, smart and beautiful and has a really complicated and intriguing relationship with the city's golden boy inventor. unfortunately golden boy has a sickly twink science partner so she gets sidetracked SO BAD

Nyota Uhura

She's Spock's canon partner in AOS, and I get it because they're not a great couple, but she gets villianized in fic so much. They constantly make her an asshole (which totally has nothing to do with her being black /sarcasm) and abusive just for the crime of dating a man headcanoned as gay. And I mean, I think Spock is gay and her being a love interest was unnecessary but still! She's cool!

Oh my god so in the Star Trek reboot she’s Spock’s girlfriend and the fandom has no idea what to do with her??? Like she is ALWAYS either such a bitch or like the mom friend? And there is so much more to her character than that? But they always break down her character AND find a quick and easy way to break up her and Spock. I’m not even mad at that but at least treat their relationship with some weight instead of just being like ‘it never mattered’. People can love multiple people throughout the course of their lives. You know that right? Just because you loved someone before doesn’t make your new love any less special. And even headcanoning Spock as gay… you realize he doesn’t need to be attracted to Uhura for their relationship to have mattered, right? Even if he confused friendship for romantic attraction, him feeling such strong friendship and openly expressing it is so monumental for him!!! 

she's dating Spock, who people ship with Kirk, so fans have decided that it's horrible writing and "really, they're just defending her, the movies turned her into just a love interests," which is not at all true. The movies do so much more for her to the point that the fans who have only seen the movies think that the main characters are Kirk, Spock, and Uhura instead of the Kirk, Spock, McCoy of the original series. Also having a black women being shown as being desired and loved in mainstream media, particularly by one of the most popular characters of all time, is a good thing, not making her "just a love interest"

[sooniebby]

danny i have a question

what's your stance on fujoshis?

personally i think therye weird asf, cause wdym they're women who obsess over gay men then 99.9% of the time turn around to be homophobic too irl couples and lesbians??

like i get it, toxic yaoi is cool and hot to read SOMETIMES- as long as you don't justify the shit tht they doo???

like stop glazing the mfkers from jinx and darkfall, fujoshi's thts highkey weird...

also i never got why fujoshis did what they did when they first came about, like sure straight men can be sucky and you wanna get revenge- but why did u have to bring the gays into this??? 😭

Eh… I don’t like them most of the times but if they don’t have lesbians/bisexual women I don’t care too much

But I’ve heard many Japanese gay men say that fujoshis literally be homophobic to their face. A JPN gay guy came out to his boss who was working on making a bl comic and she literally acted with disgust

So for many, they probably are just interested in the stories but there are also the sour apples that just ruin it… also I think the name meaning rotten women just puts a bad taste in my mouth, don’t know why you would willingly use it as a title

[c0derra4lyfe]

uhm the term yaoi is homophobic and the term fujoshi is also homophobic

by using those terms you're fetishizing gay relationships by acting like they are so especial, just leave gay couples alone,,

yeah it's not funny at all, it's inmature and REALLY weird..

Bookie... let me hold ur hand when I tell you this..

I'm just a gal having fun ;-; do NAWT take mai posts as a political statement... I'm just a cute girl girlblogging~ TwT

Also gay relationships are not special... they're lame and I hate them -_- JOKING.. IS THAT WHAT U WANT MEH TO SAY ;--; T-T

#DONTworry guys I'm a #ALLY. 💋 luv u gays, also I dabble in lesbianism from time tew time~ ;-; #heyladies.

Also if u think my blog is nawt funny and not interesting then leave -.-" .....nobody is forcing u tew be here boi ;-;

[that-one-i-think]

i hate when misogynists in fandoms will try and accuse other people of misogyny, or use it as some kind of... ammo??

like 9-1-1 discourse again,

theres a new show which kind of appeals to a similar demographic. I wanted to just read the posts in peace, but i saw people saying:

'oh yeah if people liked X 9-1-1 ship, they'll be hating on Female Character for 'getting in the way' of the mlm ship' and basically just saying that X-shippers cannot act appropriately about their ship being 'interrupted' by a female character.

... But, y'know... this is being said by people who are probably fans of Ship Y... which has existed for multiple seasons longer than X, and has an extensive history of bullying actresses for their characters... getting in the way of their mlm ship...

even if they aren't Y-shippers, they're still posing it as X-shippers being the root of a problem that predates them.

like instead of going 'hey like be careful of 9-1-1 fans, history of misogyny there lol' they decide to put the blame and fault of that on one of the newest ships in the show. Not on the biggest ship that has been doing misogyny since season 2! Never!

I don't gaf about either ship, honestly. But it's the way that these people are acting like their own misogyny doesnt count, but it does when people they don't like do the exact same thing. like it's fucking hypocritical. Even if they are also critical of Y-shippers' misogyny, they clearly don't view it as that big of a fucking deal.

And i hate that people will only ever call out misogyny as a 'gotcha'. never because they genuinely care, but because it's an easy card to pull when someone ships an mlm couple you don't like. They've also pulled out the 'yaoi fetish' card, instead of properly critiquing it... and i'm not saying it's above critique, i'm just saying people do it in bad faith.

AND IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE DISSING THIS FEMALE CHARACTER, AND THE MAIN SHIP IS LITERALLY HER AND THE TWO GUYS. ALL THREE OF THEM. by main ship i literally mean in the show, it's like an episode off from being fully stated canon.

Fuck Yeah! Polyamory Main Ship!

But seriously, I have always been a multishipper, and I have faced a lot of similar situations of just misogyny blaming. No one ship is better than the other (unless it's a really fucked up ship that shouldn't be shipped) and trying to start discourse over "which is more misogynistic" is just a different version of "which ship is better but with MORALS"

I am also a believer of the fact that too many people in fandoms do have a gay fetish, but I also understand that there is a difference between shipping a gay ship and having a fetish. I have been accused of having a gay fetish, as a trans-man with a male preference who has had relations with other trans men. So a lot of gay fetish accusing is just trying to start argument or invalidate. Which is stupid when the invalidating stuff IS GENUINE PROBLEMS LIKE PEOPLES GAY FETISH AND MISOGYNY!

Also, I hate it when people bring fandom into rea life. I hate the idea of shipping real people, like I think you can think people look cute together but actively shipping alive humans is disturbing. What more, I hate it when people attack actors and actresses with things out of their control cause a ship will never ever be more important that a person's well being. Real people should not be at the whims of fandoms.

(To be fair, I don't trust people who don't have at least one straight ship and one lesbian ship they enjoy)

[thrilling-oneway]

You are so right with m/f stuff! I’m not familiar with a lot of VBS shipping discourse, but it’s annoying to see how people can’t write an analysis on how important Tsukasa is to Rui without others dog piling them and saying they’re delusional and ignoring canon for their yaoi “with no content”. (At least on twitter, tumblr is much better with this) And as someone whose also bisexual, it’s so annoying seeing people use bisexuality as a gotcha to ship m/f and act as if its progressive and that it gives them the okay to hate on f/f and m/m pairings.

YES YES EXACTLY. God I hate when people keep saying that ruikasa has no content and their dynamic is underdeveloped whenever anyone talks about them. Like as biased as I am because I like the ship, they do have a very developed dynamic regardless of if you like the ship or not. Literally there's three events about it (potato and pandemonium + it was a pretty big background element in curtain call), one of which is the third event in the game. like if you don't like ritk that's perfectly fine, but when people are dogpilling ritk shippers for talking about their dynamic/pandemonium chapter 8/wtv and saying they're reaching, especially if the person doing this is an account dedicated to another rui ship/are a rui fan, it's a bad look because you're literally ignoring a very significant part of his arc. Ignoring massively important aspects of a character you claim to like just because of a ship is low. This fandom is way too set on everything being about shipping like bruh no one is telling you that you had to view pandemonium as romantic you can view it as platonic perfectly fine and not need to erase parts of rui's character to justify your rui/female character ship.

it's an especially weird situation with VBS as well. as much as I hold the earlier EN fandom to a higher standard there was a lot of discourse around VBS and the fact that they're implied gay. like it used to be a situation where if you admitted you shipped m/f vbs you would get jumped. as a comeback people would accuse biphobia but i never saw huge amounts of people being actually biphobic. saying "an and kohane are quite heavily implied to be lesbians (and it makes some people uncomfortable to see them shipped with men)" is a true statement but people didn't need to attack others over it. not liking a bi headcanon isn't biphobic unless you're actually being biphobic about it yknow? luckily it calmed down after a while but now you get jumped for not shipping m/f which leads us straight back to the statement about an and kohane. gbr the situation with vbs shipping nowadays is much worse than the situation when i first joined, obviously partially bc of the massive increase in fandom size but mainly because people are spewing actual homophobic rhetoric over akty ankh (someone literally tried to claim heterophobia was real bc of people not liking m/f vbs a couple months ago. actually this has happened multiple times).

AND YES GOD THIS FANDOM'S APPROACH TO BI HEADCANONS IS SO FUCKING ANNOYING. Like people only use it as a way to make m/f ships more queer and try to 1 up people with it because oh yes male/female couple are not the norm at all and they're so cool and different and if you add a bi/pan hc on top of that it makes you more progressive (/s). HCing a character as bi does not give you cool points and the fact that so many people only do it for m/f ships pisses me off to no end because people treat it like Straight 2 when bi people can be in m/m and f/f relationships. People can hc whatever they want ofc but it's so obvious sometimes that people are only using bi hcs as a way to quickly round off their hcs for every character so they can multiship or justify their m/f ships as queer and at that point I'd rather they just hc'd them as straight because I don't like seeing my identity used solely for the purpose of making a ship more queer because someone doesn't want their m/f to be a hetship.

[theliterarywolf]

Yup, top/bottom discourse is fucking wild, especially since it's always spearheaded by... non-men, like I don't think I know a single gay dude who doesn't acknowledge top/bottom dynamics, even if he's a switch. I mean, I'm F-bi, I've encountered lesbian/bi women who're bottoms/tops. Why the ever loving fuck shouldn't men also have top/bottom dynamics? It's especially wild when people think it's some big social move when they declare someone a switch, especially in a canon (top/bottom) gay couple

tbh I really don't get some people's overbearing hatred towards BL/yaoi and fujoshis nowadays because I was also there when those old annoying 2000s yaoi fangirls were running around, and I haven't seen them in years. maybe I just don't hang around in the right circles, but in my experience a lot of those weird attitudes towards mlm fiction and content have phased out for the most part since like late 2010s at least. it feels like the people who get up in arms over it are punishing regular people who just happen to enjoy BL for the sins of past fans.

Anon 1: Because we have a whole slew of teenagers coming into LGBTA spaces thinking that anything that remotely resembles their parental relationships (monogamous, top/bottom, having sex) is 'Heteronormative'.

Literally, you will not believe how many 'thinkpieces' (said with the largest of air-quotes) of 'Top? Bottom? Why do gay men want to be heteronormative so bad~?' or 'Queer people who want to get married should just admit they're straight' that I've been forced to see against my will.

Anon 2: See, the early 2000s ear of yaoi fandom should be seen in the same vein as 'lol, early 2000s weebs were so cringe'/poke fun but in that 'laughing because you were also in the trenches'

Unfortunately, we have a new generation of teens getting into fandom (often fandoms that they have no business being in) and taking a fleeting glance of all the cringe and horny humor from that period and taking it upon themselves to be the new, rational, PURE voice of fandom! To take it away from the evil, porn-addicted, cringelords of the past!

...When, in reality, all their harassing Adult Erotica creators and shoving themselves into spaces and conversations not meant for them is the real cringe.

[k16is]

One thing that has always annoyed me about the fandom is this whole.. standby lesbians thing with rosemary. This has been said so many times before but I'm saying it again cause it's STILL annoying and people still do it so like. . Often they're just sort of. Being there. In the background of other(mostly MLM) ships, serving as this prop. Like when people draw davekat/dirkjake/pepsicola/etc they're always doing something like talking or cuddling or shopping or it's like a shitpost about divorce or something or whatever. But very often when i see rosemary it's like. They're just eerily standing next to one another and smiling. Like almost the entire fandom agrees that it's a good ship, but literally no one actually wishes to understand their personalities or their bond beyond that. It's just. Prim and proper lesbian rep to fill in the gaps. Much of their tags on social media are filled with this very bland fanon version of them, and very often it's accompanied by a different, more characterized ship as the main focus of the post. They're just kinda there to sit still and look pretty. Like I've seen people crackship yaoi just for the sake of yaoi and call it the ship of the century but the same group would tell you that rosemary is boring because uhhhhh smart words and uhh girl read book. The ao3 tag is also atrocious. I need to break my neck to find good content for one of the only canon pairings in HS 💀

sadly this doesn’t just happen in homestuck, this happens in almost every fandom. and then ppl ask why sapphic creators are so LOUD???. someone has to provide the actually accurate awesome stuff… it’s so funny because whenever i read a wlw fic with an mlm side pairing they still do them justice… i feel like a wlw fic author will drop the best interpretations of mlm couples and then an mlm fic writer will just like make the background wlw characters sit there and do nothing most of the time.

but that might just be me tbh idk i don’t keep track of every thing i read. i dont really understand why every single fandom has this weird imbedded mysogeny its like i can’t find any content of ships i like without them being either objectified or simplified yk. i also have beef with the fact that there is NOT!! ENOUGH!! well written PLATONIC dynamics ever like that’s the most fun thing to me like i actually need dave and kanaya duo content desperately.

i feel like a lot of authors lack the crucial understanding that everyone is always going through something. when characters aren’t in a certain scene they’re still doing something in the story. like where is the background tea. where is the nasty deets. things dont always happen in a linear clear perfect way like i think while dave is figuring out what touches are in which quadrants we should have rose and kanaya start gaslighting karkat into believing he is made of earth crab. let rose fake her own death with kanaya and have terezi conduct a case while davekat suck face yk. we’re all a little silly

[menstits]

i do think h*ikav*h is the closest thing to a "canon" gay ship in genshin but like

1- they dont come close to the actual canon lesbian ships in honkai and genshin like kiamei bronseele beiguang and eimiko

2- both of them are boring guys recicled from other boring guys and also alhaitham is kinda Weird with the Eremites (see his voiceline about dehya)

3- kaveh will never be kaeya.

Nobody on this earth will ever be kaeya. But also yeah like sorry they are yaoi bait and their dynamic is lame too and also just sorry i don't like kaveh he's a blonde man + his conflicts are boring to me he's literally every architecture student on this earth which is why people like him actually but sorry kaeya is just better.

Also like 😭 one thing about genshin is that it does have like. Men that are implied to be gay but not really any meaningful gay relationship between two men which is actually kind of funny because genshin fans completely overlook those things in favor of the fucking boring yaoibait couples. Like childe has two voicelines about being soo charmed and mesmerized by hot sweaty strong men fighting and itto has that whole line about painting his horns rainbow and the arataki gang being home to all social rejects or whatever and yet they're both dudes that the wider genshin fandom makes straightboy jokes about and then turn around and act like haikaveh is some kind of heart wrenching gay romance when they're legit just two dudes in their 30s with unsolved issues from when they were 21

[knittedbond]

make no mistake. joongdok are in gay love but they're a t4t transhet couple, while doksoo are bisexual about their love but they are a yaoi couple, and yoohan are yuri but they are also lesbian yaoi in a different way. and if you think hsy is the one wearing the dress in any of these dynamics you've committed the most fundamental crime of misunderstanding yhk

[noa-ciharu]

Hmmm....

Yuzuriha, Arashi, Hinoto and Villain Hinoto, Kanoe, Karen, and Kotori!

(lots of work for you, huh?)

Ah lots of work for me. Luckily for me I like them all <3 I'll do Hinoto only once since I don't think her usual self and her evil self have no interactions at all, I bet they're two sides of the same coin, light and shadow self

Sexuality headcanon:

Yuzuriha, Karen, Arashi, Kotori - probably all straight. Kanoe - bi af and Hinoto stikes me as someone who has no sexual attraction but does have romantic one so heteroromantic ace. Karen is so 🔥 damn she'd be too powerful as bi or lesbian

Her makeup and dress for ruined and she still is pulling them looks. Plus she's fighting in high heels and managed to win. Trully a queen ❤🔥👑

Gender headcanon:

I guess they're all cis girls

OTP:

Out of all their ships I like Sorata/Arashi the most. Tbf when we're talking about X couples 90% of time we latch onto gays, aka subkam, fuukam or seisub and we sleep on one of honestly amazingly developed couples that's Sorata/Arashi. I wish we'd get to see ending clamp planed for them one day, somehow I think there night be some diversion from Sorata's fate path of dying for woman he loves (like maybe dying by the hand of woman he loves, which can happen if Arashi ends up brainwashed by Hinoto...)

BROTP:

For Yuzuriha it's defo her relationship with Kamui

Cuties ❤

For Arashi I guess her bond with rest of Seals. Tbf she mostly interacted with Sorata during X. Karen and her parental relationship with Nataku, it had no right hitting so hard 💔 for Hinoto and Kanoe I have none really and for Kotori I guess her dynamic with Fuuma and Kamui but that one is bond to get awkward eventually, for very evident reasons

As for non-canon ones, I'd so want Kotori and Hokuto to meet in some AU 🥺🙏 clamp plz. Beside that it'll be hilarious af if Arashi and X!Subaru were to hang out (like waiting for Kamui, Sorata and Yuzu to return to dorm). They'd drink tea in complete silence for like... 30 mins

NOTP:

I'm not the biggest fan of Kusanagi/Yuzuriha part. I like how when she confessed to him he was basically 'you're a kid' and despite Yuzuriha harboring feelings for far older man and him clearly caring about her, nothing romantic ever happened between them. In summary, I like their platonic bond very much but not romantic one

Random headcanon:

Girl sleepovers are very much needed. Girls' night ❤ although poor Kotori, she's too pure to be let around Kanoe. Also I can't believe our sexy girls Karen and Kanoe never met, that's basically a crime. Satsuki and Hokuto must be invited for girls sleepover too.

Boys can't have sleepover of their own for very obvious homoertoic reasons

General opinion:

They're all so beautiful and deserve happy lives and love and therapy and not whatever this *points at X where characters had 0 happiness for 18.5 vols* is. Yuzuriha and Kotori are so pure we should put them in ccs.

Okay maybe just Kotori bc I'm still sure Yuzuriha hooked Kamui onto yaoi and-

[piduai]

Also just like akatsuki no yona (well hak at least is not an insane pervert and violent towards girls (bare minimum) there this appeal for the petite fragile girl and her massive bf. Im alone on the island but maomao look just like jinshi little sister at best. They don't even match physically. Maomao look like his kiddo to me. So so weird.

tiny petite girl x massive guy has been a romance staple for decades though. so prevalent in fact it even extrapolated to yaoi as well. there's also a section of lesbian romance that has a fragile small femme x huge male-bodied roided out butch as the focus couple. men are rarely into this kind of dramatic size differences unless they're pedophiles, but women seem to love it.

to be fair maomao being short and scrawny is kind of plot relevant, though it also used to bother me in the beginning. it's just that "heroine that looks like a child but is actually an adult/300000 years old" trend has been so pervasive it's unsettling. and of course people will deflect by saying that ummmm petite women exist actually!!!! but we all know what is going on. whatever.