Meme Worthy Of Flowery Passive-Aggressive Emoticons
Read-More’d because I live in eternal fear of clogging someone’s dash with shit they don’t need to be hearing
A lot, but one that comes up the most frequently is ‘Ignoring Canon Characterization For The Sake Of Forcing A Character Into A Role In A Relationship’, and it’s distant cousin, ‘Never Acknowledging The Important Women In A Male Character’s Life Because If He’s Got His Boyfriend, Nothing Else Matters, Right?’
For all the obvious reasons other people have definitely written more eloquently and intelligently than I could ever hope to. It’s boring, I can’t think of a single example where it isn’t making the characters ten times less interesting, and it makes the ship feel much, much more like something people are into for the aesthetic appeal than the actual relationship and dynamic between those involved.
And the latter is probably hypocritical in most cases, what with all the ‘Platonic relationships are important!!! Female characters are important!!! (Unless they take any focus away, IC or OOC, from X romantic relationship!)’
Obviously since I play Raven, I see a lot of it in regards to her, and it drives me up walls.Completely regardless of one’s ship preferences, she’s formed extremely, EXTREMELY strong and influential relationships with both Charles and Erik (and if you’re going strictly by new-film canon, which I’d say I see a lot of blogs doing/having in mind when creating content, she’s actually known and interacted with both longer than the third person) that are acknowledged very sparingly for no actual reason. Charles and Raven were siblings, confidants, close friends, for years. Raven and Erik got a lot of strength from one another, reformed the Brotherhood, and are the only two survivors of the Brotherhood, understand eachother’s values, and it was Raven that talked him down during that final stand against Apocalypse. And for whatever reason, there’s very, very, very little that reflects any of it. Even if you don’t ship whatever-combination, there’s no way to assume there was no bond whatsoever unless you want to blatantly ignore canon for whatever reason. She’s not there solely for jokes or to comment on goings-on or cute ship whatevers, she’s a key player and extremely important to the both of them, and they’re extremely important to her in turn, and just...?Ugh.
