have you considered mira x celine.... i read quite a lot of fics of them and , yeahhhh yeah, yeah im normal. i really really like the idea of them being like "no one will ever know about this." and then mira tells rumi that she KINDOF slept with her mom
i have seen it around, however it is not for me! what appeals to me abt zoeline is the disastrous hilarity of a middle-aged widowed single mother who has never been married nor given birth but bears the accompanying cross anyway suddenly getting slammed with the unfettered, undefined and dubiously ethical advances of an alarmingly younger woman who for all intents and purposes is kind of-sort of her kind of-sort of daughter's soulmate--and who also had posters of her face plastered across the inside of her middle school locker.
with mira it feels a little heavier, bc we know for a fact that she has familial hangups and celine very well could be the first adult she was able to fully trust--and the associated uncomfortable overlaps of it all. this is not to say that the latter wouldn't also be present w zoey (wc, delicious, yes; i love the locked tomb so you know i love the discomfort of even sincere and earnest love blurring socially acceptable boundaries) but what is overwhelmingly also present is an enormous potential for Comedy.
because zoey is a sunlight sisters superfan, and she very well could have been the kind of fan who mainlined xreaders and developed a debilitating (but initially assumed to be impossible and therefore harmless) crush on her bias. she has the vibe of a severely undersupervised child raised by the internet and fandom. i know her ss stan acct is vile.
and now that the universe has named her y/n and bowled her towards not only two beautiful gorgeous bandmates whose lives will forever be entwined with hers, but also the woman who showed her the light of loving women in the first place? while at the same time building up her skills and confidence and sense of self-worth to ensure that she can take on the world with a bulletproof smile?
she is not throwing away her fucking shot.
i'll be the first to admit that i've only ever drawn zoeline as a joke--bc the sheer whiplash of the sweet, cutesy maknae begging on bended be-zootsuited knee for a woman twice her age to let her hit, please please please is too good--but i do think zoey's crushy feelings (even if they're just infatuation w a figure she associated w comfort and joy during a difficult and isolating period in her life, or plain carnal lust for that milf) are real and true. i'm not sure if i want celine to reciprocate beyond feeling flattered and mildly mortified, and if asked to choose polytrix is my nation, but. i think there is space there for zoey to have genuine romantic feelings for celine, even if they won't come to fruition, or she never expresses them in a manner that isn't completely unserious, or she never chooses to pursue them over her feelings for rumira. all my comics are in a nebulous space of maybe/maybe not sharing continuity, but if i had to collapse it into one, it'd be one where polytrix are together and zoey has mostly shifted to seeing celine as her mentor, but has occasional flare-ups that have her acting extremely unwise (see: celine aegyo) (but never to a degree that is genuinely relationship-threatening), much to rumira's (mostly rumi's) chagrin.
also, for all that i project fashion opinions on mira, by the same token i project on zoey my immense need to be celine's alarmingly younger girlfriend.
(idk if i project anything on rumi. sorry girl. you're the small animal i poke and push over for fun bc i find your struggle adorable. love you)
oh my god this was supposed to be abt mira/celine. i am so sorry. i have a zoey bias that eclipses the sun. what else can i say.
oh! additionally aesthetically i feel like celine and mira hit too much of the same character design beats (tall, slender, long sharp face, narrow sharp eyes, generally inexpressive, etc.) to be appealing to me as a pairing, since i like putting together characters that visually contrast. zoey's smallness and her roundness and her bouncyness look very good w both of them and satisfies that criteria for me.
ugh. okay. focus. so w that in mind i'm more predisposed to viewing mira and celine as... not exactly parallels but as two people who have a number of similarities despite their major differences (namely, their approaches to communication and stances on secret-keeping), rather than a romantic pairing. i like to think that they have the same shitty taste in romantic k-dramas despite being the most outwardly stoic of everybody and have spent a few cherished afternoons gripping each other's shoulders through the same old romantic beats that somehow still always get waterworks running. celine bc it's so funny to me if she has the asian mom taste in media, mira bc i think it's really cute for the same to be true of her. my girlypop my princess my darling with her big bright pink heart <333
uh. wow. how many derailments did i put this poor ask thru.
tl;dr: mira/celine is not for me for quite a few reasons, none of them moral objections, many of them zoey-shaped, but all the power to you for liking it!
