Like, am I the only person who just can't ship bumbleby? I'm sorry it's just Yang and Blake feel worlds apart from each other and I used to be real neutral about the ship but now it's just like, I can't see Blake with someone who she literally has nothing in common with? At least with Sun, they share their faunus background and know what it's like to be racially profiled and abused, which they can understand about each other romantically or not And with Adam they obviously at one point shared ideals and dreams about how they would change the world and, like, they had to have things in common for them to work together the way they did??? And obviously Blake and Yang work well together as partners but I just /can't/ see Blake with Yang in the romantic sense..? I guess my main issue stems from how people assume that because someone doesn't ship bumbleby, or white rose, or really any same-sex relationship, it means that person is automatically homophobic because believe me I've seen and dealt with many of those people And it bothers me because I'm bi, so you're telling me that if I don't support a same-sex relationship I'm against lgbt+? That I'm not really lgbt+? Like what, where is the logic in that For example, I've shipped many a hetero relationship throughout my fandom career, but just because I do doesn't mean I am against lgbt+ relationships. If anything, more representation would be amazing, but I'd like to be, ya know, NOT fanservice and actually feel genuine and real? Take korrasami for example. I was a hardcore makorra shipper for the longest time, but when LoK ended and it was confirmed korrasami was canon, I was /ecstatic/. I loved korrasami because I could see the potential in these two characters and I ended up rooting for them after makorra broke up. It felt clean and real. SasuNaru, as another one. This ship is real, genuine, and the hetero ships that ended up canon are what feel forced and unreal. Sasunaru was the only ship in Naruto, besides Shikatema, that made any genuine sense. I'm not trying to be like "hey look I ship these lgbt+ relationships I'm not homophobic at all", I'm trying to say that the chemistry that I see in ships like korrasami and sasunaru just doesn't exist for me in bumbleby and by a lesser extent white rose. I personally just feel I want to see a sisterly sort of bond between team RWBY. Do I want more representation? Of course! But I don't want it to be fanservice, or if the creators feel too pressured to put in a half-assed relationship halfway through the series (looking at you, Kishimoto), or whatever. I just don't feel that kind of romantic chemistry with bumbleby. Please don't sue me.
