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sabraeal · 10 days ago

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so, like... do you think Sorata is actually pushing to swap the main couple in AnS to Obi and Shirayuki? I know that being in this corner of the fandom imparts some bias and that ships don't have to be canon to be good, but Shirayuki and Zen have seen each other, what, twice in the past 50 chapters? It doesn't really seem like she's terribly interested in maintaining their dynamic.

It has been forever since I had the chance to dig into my asks, so let the record show, this ask came to me pre-ch 136, and I'm glad I sat on it because I think I would have given a much more equivocal response in August, and now I'm like:

Sorata did not give us 28 pages of Obi feelings for me to doubt her now 🤣

#asks #obiyuki #ans #listen could it still be zen & shirayuki in the end? absolutely #sorata is a great visual storyteller and I feel like even if that's the case #i'll be happy with how she leads me there even if I wanted obiyuki in the end #but like...she literally had every reason to keep zen there and then sent him away anyway #after he literally engineered this meeting between them #zen & shirayuki haven't been getting development like this either. like most of their story happened in the first 20 chapters #and every step forward they have Shirayuki tends to put a stop on a few seconds in #they haven't done FEELINGS stuff in so long. and meanwhile we're getting this big arc #of obi learning he has worth. that he has something to give her that isn't acting as Zen's tool or her bodyguard #like. the REUNION. the calling each other home. the date with canon tomomi where shirayuki (and zen) freak out over #shirayuki stopping to tell him that he looks good in firelight and following it up with how he's the reason #that she had the courage to stay at lilias. THE WHOLE FAKE DATING ARC. and now this???#we're getting a much bigger story with them. and as we've seen with mistuhide/kiki/hisame #she is looking not for easy ships but the story to get them there #could this still just be her developing an important platonic relationship? sure. but there's been a LOT of focus #on Obi's feelings for that to be the case #so WE'LL SEE

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