how do you feel about the aina has a crush on galo interpretation?

well my thoughts on it r that while i have no like positive or negative feelings toward it outright, i dont think its like bad or something i just struggle to know what trigger intended so my own interpretation is not that (bc if its my choice im choosing smth i find more interesting lol). in my cishet sisters opinion aina was ‘trying to flirt with him at the lake’ (i have to put it in quotes bc she did specify the ‘trying’ part is what made her have secondhand embarrassment) but i didnt get that at all when ive seen it, and i thinkits kind of based off of ‘trigger cant write women / no character REALLY has much character beyond galo and lio / you just assume she must have a crush on him bc thats generally how stories go’ it makes it hard for me to say anything abt intention w full confidence? 

i guess if i was trying to work my way back thru canon in my head rn i would say AN interpretation ID go with is she thought she had a crush on him but she didnt lol. comphet 'crush’ to reinforce what they were talking abt at the lake w pressure/expectation/conformity... they dont rly have much in common and she only started being kind of nice to him after the lake, its not like they particularly like each other or enjoy each others company, and also if trigger was smart theyd recognize that paralleling her w galo should mean she should get a gf. i think its more ‘trigger didnt know what to do w her character beyond the straightbaiting scene’ than like ‘heres a solid interpretation for aina and her relationship w galo thats 100% true’ to me? and triggers intention doesnt rly Matter that much i guess but in this case i WOULD be curious to know what they were going for. i think they didnt think hard abt her character though :/

also i generally dont go w it bc it just seems like kind of an easy way out for interpreting her character when theres other ways that r more interesting to me personally (also id like to give her more character beyond the guy protag), and since even if she did have a crush on him it would b unrequited so it just doesnt rly feel like theres a good reason for it to be there narrative wise or to include it in smth post-canon beyond a quick subplot or offhand remark about smth thats since passed. writing it as smth that was in the past and now shes happy w someone else (thyma <3) or smth is a way id do it if i wanted 2 incorporate that in. it adds a bit of character flavor i suppose its just not the type id generally go for! its personal opinion rly

so tldr i can easily see how youd get there and while its not smth i go with just bc i think theres more entertaining ways to go about writing her relationship w galo i dont think its like, terrible or bad, bc sometimes u have a crush on someone unattainable. i just didnt rly interpret it like that in the movie in the first place so my opinions like ‘i dont care i just dont write it like that’. i rambled a lot but i love talking abt promare so <3