These constant excuses that Maya sees Lucas as a brother is too funny really, I mean it’s not in Maya’s actions and she’s never said so either. Now on the opposing hand, Riley is not attracted to Texas Lucas and she claims that she likes him. No that is not how it goes! Riley doesn’t like ORIGINAL LUCAS because ORIGINAL LUCAS doesn’t fit her dream image of the perfect boy! Can you rucas shippers admit that? I mean you guys use the same excuse over and over and over again, you guys really don’t have any proof that why Lucaya can’t be romantic. ———— R.S: “Riley likes Lucas and Lucas likes Riley” L.S: It’s one sided, Lucas never really showed much affection towards Riley, yet Riley shows all of her affection towards Lucas, so technically Lucas doesn’t feel that way about her R.S: “Maya wouldn’t date Lucas because Riley likes him/that would hurt Riley” L.S: so Riley already salvaged her date for her best friend. And if Riley was really a good friend to Maya, why wouldn’t she be supportive of Maya and Lucas (we already know that she knows Lucas likes Maya). Plus if Riley got hurt in Rileytown, and that helped her grow, that’s enough to break Rowan’s immature character. R.S: “Maya and Lucas are brother and sister” L.S: lol have you seen GM Creativity? Lucas literally cared about Maya’s happiness, no brother of someone would do that unless they had a crush on that person, how Lucas came to Riley’s defense in Rileytown is brother/sister behavior. Lucaya has a good friendship that can be turned into something more very quickly because they are drawn to each other with no problem. Plus Lucas said that he was the best person “contain Maya”. R.S: “Rucas kissed” L.S: Riley KISSED Lucas, they did not kiss each other, learn the difference. And that was a .3 second smooch on the lips, not a kiss. Including after they dated for like 1-2 hours and they were extremely uncomfortable around each other in that state PROVES they don’t have those type of feelings for each other. If Riley and Lucas really liked each other, they should’ve rescheduled their first date, or when they went on a date they would’ve been completely attracted to each other like a magnet. R.S: “Maya wouldn’t ever date Lucas because she doesn’t like him” L.S: yeah because Maya said that in season one means that still applies right now? She got to know Lucas more and how you view someone changes over time.
All of this is just common logic. There’s really no excuse as to why you can’t ship Lucaya, it’s not going to hurt Riley and Maya’s friendship. They’ve been friends too long to let Lucas get in between. It’s ok to ship whatever ship as long as you respect the other person’s point of view and not call it “impossible” “ridiculous” “pointless” or “pathetic”. You cannot deny that they get along really well and they have really fantastic chemistry. But if you call not respecting someone's old;present personality or personal space a good ship than please reconsider.