Did anyone else see that post about 'Lea being Romeo's mom'?
I know they probably meant nothing by it, nor expected someone to bring it up, but I'm gonna say what I feel needs to be said after reading the comments and reposts.
The creator of that post and those who agree with it are obviously free to head-canon what they want, in fact I love the head-canon and think the concept they've made is absolutely adorable!
However, Lea literally isn't Romeo's mother, she's his teacher, in canon. I'm not particularly obsessed with the ship myself, but there's literally nothing wrong with it. People shipping them isn't all that weird. The only valid criticism I saw was people argue it was weird because Romeo might have been a teen, but that is never confirmed in canon. (As far as I'm aware)
If people are shipping Lea x Romeo as two consenting adults, and you look at their post and see it as 'mom and son', and comment that: you come off as weirder than you comparatively think they are being. Teacher x Apprentice, in THIS particular fandom is likely the tamest thing you will find. I've been in this fandom since Oct 2023, and I've seen plenty that got swept under the rug, seen discourse caused by blogs that clearly haven't been in fandom for all that long. Excessive dad x son and/or incest (Most ironically ignore this side of the fandom, which is better left alone). As well as just straight up rudeness about theories, ideas, and even hate for innocent head-canon's like the original poster, for example.
Either way, people getting unnecessary hate over something as stupid as what they ship is pretty sad, I miss when there wasn't pointless complaining over what you ship, or like.
Also, just as a disclaimer, I'm only trying to mediate. This isn't intended as any hate towards the people who dislike Lea x Romeo and simply spoke their opinion. I just used that post as a catalyst to bring up an issue I see often in this fandom: Which is people complaining or giving unnecessary hate about fictional ships that are not hurting anyone.
Like P x Sophia, or Venigni x P, as yet another example of innocent, well intended ships that get needless hate. And now we have Lea x Romeo being added to that list. There's no reason you can't just ignore it and block the tag. Thanks for reading my little unsurprising post about something I've been observing. Obviously feel free to comment if you have anything to add or say about this.
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