As someone that never ever cared about ships and stuff and just see what the shows wanna tell me (tbh I usually try to distance myself from the shipping part of any fandom) I always thought: were did all this "dad!sesshomaru" people came from? Like, maybe in fanfictions, sure, but like canon Sesshomaru always hated humans and probably thought about Rin like some kind of puppy at the beginning and it wasnt until the final act and her SECOND death that he realized that rin was special to him and then just decides to make humand raise her. The thought of Sess thinking about rin as a daughter during their journey is so ooc for me lmao, people really think that the cold and human hating sesshomaru saw the little girl and went "I guess im your father now lmao" it really makes me think how low the bar for what a father is for fictional characters, like all what Sesshomaru did with her was protecting her when she was in danger or making sure she was safe during critical moments, because he thought about her as a daughter? Lmao no, it was because he was curious about her and about the fact that it was with her that he was ablo to use Tenseiga's powers for the first time. Sesshomaru probably passed 80% of the time thinking about how to be more powerfull/hunting Naraku sometimes and the remaining 20% thinking about why the hell did Tenseiga reacted like that for Rin while unconsciously getting attached to her and her shenanigans. With Rin happened the same, so many people claiming that Rin saw Sess as her father, while canon Rin still had nightmares about her own family for who knows how many months/years, even with that episode where she told that to Kohaku rumiko could easily make Rin saying something about the lines that Sess was like a Father to her but instead use it to show that Rin still missed her family and that that Fatherly/motherly space in her heart was never filled by Sess, so it was obvious that she never saw him as a Father (I always thought that she saw him as this weird spirit/hero that let her join him i his weird journey and Rin obviously went with him cuz that was more funny than being by her own).
The show never showed a familial bond nor a romantic one, it was just that there were lots of hints about Sess and FUTURE Rin developing something more but it was just that, a "maybe you and your father are too identical" that obviously hinted at the romantic aspect and thats why the ship exists this hard to begin with, like, if really sessrin was just a fanon thing only with 0 hints in the manga/anime then it wouldn't be this famous lmao.
What actually makes me sick is watching people antagonize both Rumiko and Sunrise for making a comeback just because it has things that they dont like, I never thought that the yashahime fandom would be like other famous fandoms were people start to cherry pick wath is canon and what it isn't just to justify their opinions lmao.
OH MY GOD YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE THIS DAD!SESSH BULLSH*T
Like, it’s okay if you INTERPRET their relationship as such but like, that’s it, it’s only YOUR interpretation. I hate, HATE, HAAAATE the way the western fandom (more like, the AMERICAN fandom) tries to impose their headcanon on us. THERE’S NOT A SINGLE FRAME IN THE ANIME OR MANGA THAT SHOWS SESSHOMARU BEING A FATHER FIGURE. I’m sorry that these people had such awful dads tho. I mean, to think that sesshomaru acted like a dad..... damn.....
The canon material in the manga (I think the character’s profile) says that Sesshomaru took Rin because he was intrigued by her human nature. That’s it. He was like “uhm, what an interesting species. okay Jaken there you go, im out to kill naraku, bye!” 😂 Also, Rin is described as a vassal of Sesshomaru. VASSAL!
Anyway, I blame the english dub. I never watched a dub for inuyasha since I only read the manga and after that I watched the whole series subbed. But I KNOW how the dubs in north america tend to mess up with anime. Believe me, I’m a Cardcaptor Sakura fan and I’ve heard HORRIBLE things about what the dub did to that anime. And for what I’ve read, the inuyasha dub never got fully broadcasted there? so like, these people that see Sessh as Rin’s dad have only watched like, the same 10 episodes of the series (not even the Final Act) over and over again 🙄 Because honestly??? I don’t feel the same about the LATAM fandom. Actually, the LATAM fandom loves sessrin just as much as the japanese fandom does.