The hypocrisy of Gruvia haters
(Sorry for my bad english)
Disclaimer : I’m not talking about all the people who don’t like Gruvia. You can ship and not ship whatever you want. Sometimes, even myself don’t like popular ship or I don’t understand why people ship them and that’s okay. You can be unconfortable with a ship, that’s your right because it’s your feelings. As a Gruvia shipper, i respect that you don’t like Gruvia if you respect that I like it and don’t come in our tags to spit your hate.
But today, I’m talking specially of people who hate Gruvia because they ship Gray with another character.
I ship Gruvia for nearly 10 years and I’ve been on Tumblr since 2013. So believe me, I saw a lot of bullsh*t here. That’s how I witnessed a lot of hypocrisy from theses haters and I identified mainly 3 patterns :
These haters decide what’s romantic or not based on their preference.
Gray died for Juvia twice, she was litteraly the last person he thought of before nearly dying (and appeared like a beautiful angel in his mind), he comforts her, he explicitly says he wants to protect her no matters what the cost, he makes sure to always be with her (« I’m here Juvia »), she’s the only person who can make Gray smile when he’s feeling down, she’s the only person who saw him cry openly in her arms because he trust her enough, Gray says that Juvia is his world, that Juvia is his power to live, he thinks of her as « romantic love », he wants to become a better man to be with her, he said several time that Juvia was « his », he explicitly said that he doesn’t hate Juvia and was grateful to having her at his side (I’m sure I forgot others moments, there are so many)
Theses haters : Gray hates Juvia ! Gruvia has no development ! Gray has no romantic feeling towards Juvia !
But when Gray and Lucy stood next to each other, these same people believe it’s a romantic moment ! Okay Gray said once that Lucy was a cute girl (because she is ❤), but he also friendzoned her at several occasions and act like a brother.
In his mind, she’s like Wendy, a little sister, when Juvia is guess what ? The woman he loves !
(Also remember that’s Stone Age omake ? Every men was sexually attracted to Lucy, except Gray and Gajeel. And guess who was Gray attracted to ? Juvia !)
So remember, by these haters’ logic : if you stand next someone, it’s true love. If you found a person cute, it’s means you love them romantically (omg, I guess I love at least 10 person at the same time lmao). But if you die to protect someone who means the world to you, it means you hate this person !
These haters loves to say Gray is OOC when he’s romantic with Juvia.
Just say you don’t want him to be romantic with Juvia and go lol. You don’t have to act like you know the characters better than the author (you know, the one who created them ?) just because you ship the guy with another girl.
Speaking about Gray being OOC, I love when these people act like this :
Gray developps feelings towards Juvia during the entire manga, Gruvia is the most developped ship on panel, Gray is more and more open about his feelings because it’s in the logic of his character arc (it’s called growth, a character whith no developpment isn’t a good character).
These haters : Gray is OOC !
The same haters : (make Gray acts the same way towards another girl who he had 0 romantic developpment during the entire manga) It’s true love !
Friendly reminders that Gray isn’t a Don Juan who will openly flirt with Lucy or another girl, no matters how much you convinced yourself.
It’s canon that Gray has no experience in dating and Juvia is the first girl he has a romantic dveloppment with.
So remember, by these haters logic : if a character doesn’t act the way you want or fall in love with the girl you want, it’s because the author doesn’t undestrand them. Everyone knows that you are the only person on Earth who understand this character you didn’t even create !
These haters say that Gruvia isn’t romantic, but stole Gruvia moments for their own ship
This one makes me laugh the most. It’s a common thing in fandom, because I saw it in others ship wars. The haters will say a ship isn’t romantic but will used romantic moments of said ship for their own.
With Gruvia, I saw a lot of other ship use Mashima drawing and replace Juvia’s face with another girl’s. So I don’t understand ? If Gruvia isn’t romantic, why are you stealing their moment for your own ship ? What logic is that ?
I remember a Gray and Ultear shipper who was a massive Gruvia hater. One day, this person hated on Juvia because « she killed Gray’s father so she was a horrible person who didn’t deserve him ».
So okay, let’s ignore the fact that :
Silver was already dead. He was just a living corpse under the influence of the necromancer.
Juvia had no other choice, because she had to kill that necromancer to save the world
Juvia was heartbroken because she knew it would kill Gray’s dad. But guess who ask her to do it anyway ? Gray’s dad ! Silver wanted to die !
Juvia was so heartbroken that she was ready to give up her love for Gray. And guess who stopped her ? Gray himself because he was glad he didn’t have to kill his father himself ! Gray didn’t want Juvia’s love to go away, he needed her !
Anyway… This hater had found a new pretext to hate on Juvia. When, several week later, this same person make a AU where Ultear is the one to kill Silver, stealing a Gruvia moment.
So by this person logic : Juvia is a bitch because she was forces to kill the father of the man she loves to save the wolrd. But when another girl do it, it’s tragic and romantic ?
Like, are you dumb ? Or are you one of Earth’s biggest hypocrite ?
So in conclusion : it’s okay if you don’t like Gruvia dynamic. But in that case don’t use this dynamic for shipping Gray with another character.
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