#it's like. the fascinating but depressing shounen manga cliche that you can have someone who's one half of your soul. who's been through | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

leatherbookmark · 4 months

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sometimes i lie awake at night thinking god i sure hope wsn are fucking because it would be SUCH boring and uncreative writing if they went on to have wives and 2.5 children. and then i'm like hm wait but wsn are. and then i'm like hm no i'm right

#shrimp thoughts #it's like. the fascinating but depressing shounen manga cliche that you can have someone who's one half of your soul. who's been through #countless perils with you and understands you like no one else in the world does. AND you have a wife and mother of your children.#and these are separate categories. you are not allowed (being a shounen manga character) to end up in a romantic relationship with #your best friend/rival. and similarly the woman who later becomes your wife cannot be your best friend/rival either because 'friend' and #'woman one is attracted to' are separate categories. furthermore you GOTTA use the terribly annoying 'adolescent attraction' tropes #that create a barrier between the protagonist and his love interest that cannot ever be crossed. her body is mysterious and fascinating; sh #is from Another Species and her behaviour is Confusing.#this is sort of why i enjoyed almond on a basic 'yeah it was nice okay' sense but hated the introduction of a female crush #both as the element of a coming-of-age story (and also a 'look our protagonist is WEIRD but he IS normal and relatable in that he experienc #*-s heterosexual desire!) AND a wedge between the protagonist and his friend. i understand why the author did it i guess but it doesn't #change the fact that it disappointed and bored me terribly.#why am i talking about tropes in relation to rps which is based on people existing in real life? well you see i have a cold and overdosed o #sore throad lozenges then woke up shortly before 5am salivating with gay abandon. you WILL suffer my demented takes.

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