love how laimar imo has surpassed and even overturned the basic tropes of “fantasy guy everyman gets together with the pretty elf” “male lead ends up with female lead”, and in the end it’s their pure bond that wins over the people who like them instead of the expectations that they might get together. and to me it is even better that we don’t get explicit confirmation. we don’t need to be spoonfed romance we can deduce it from their existing moments if they want. it’s not like the broader mainstream fandom is spoonfeeding us with them in a shippy way. i really feel like laimar is a ship in which is heavily based on their canon interactions and development rather than tropes because let’s face it, we’re all a little tired of the tropes.
they are not just male protag x female protag or human fighter x elf mage or even “guy who is socially inept and loves monsters more than humans but is accepted and beloved by people now and she helps him with that” x “long lived hybrid elf terrified of losing loved ones to death comes to terms with the cycle of life and death and he helps her with that”. they are simply who they are.
"[Canon Bisexual Character] should have been [gay / lesbian] so they ended up with [Same Sex Character]!"
Wow. That's so interesting! Because there is literally no reason you can't ship that bisexual character with the same sex character as is. No one on earth is stopping you. Bisexual people are attracted to the same sex. You can ship away without changing a single thing about them!
But you keep insisting they should have been lesbian or gay so they could date the same sex and... gosh. It almost seems like... you just hate that they are bisexual!
the inflection is exactly the same. I have been thinking about this for an hour. was this on purpose or is this just how people are naturally compelled to say these words in this order (via @biderverse on X/Twitter)