Somebody online: You can’t ship Yelena and Bob because Yelena is aroace.
Me *as someone on the aroace spectrum*
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Somebody online: You can’t ship Yelena and Bob because Yelena is aroace.
Me *as someone on the aroace spectrum*
Who’s Ready For Another (unwanted) Boblena Hot Take?
( as always, feel free to completely ignore if you have differing opinions/headcanons)
A lot of fanfic authors love to write Bob as having a praise kink. (I enjoy the trope even though it’s not really my favorite term to describe it but hey) Sometimes to the point where he is a sobbing wreck if Yelena so much as looks at him (again not my favorite interpretation but I ain’t gonna kink shame)
But, you can’t tell me that our girl Yelena doesn’t have one as well, at least to a certain degree.
Someone who has been treated as an expendable object most of her life. Who feels like she will never live up to her sister or be enough. Who tells her father how alone and worthless she feels.
No I’m telling you, any time Bob tells Yelena how beautiful or amazing or brave she is, or makes her feel seen and valued with his words, Yelena is the kind of person who will roll her eyes and tell Bob he’s being an idiot.
All the while, both of them know how much she absolutely loves it.