You know I realize my view on romance (and interpersonal relationships in general) is very warped by a myriad of factors such as "fucked up weirdo backstory befitting a main character in an anime or perhaps a soap opera" and "the autism" but I realized a (small) part of the reason I never really got into any kind of media shipping culture even when I was younger and more prone to getting involved in #fandom is that ****** and ********** really changed the game for me at a crucial point in my childhood and I have never gotten over it.

Like you are trying to tell me that you want me to be invested in two characters' relationship but they are not even messy painfully homoerotic childhood-best-friend fuckups who are mutually pining after each other but neither thinks they deserve the other (much less the issues of coming out in pre-2013 social climate) so they keep pushing each other into other people and try to hold each other at arm's length except they are still best friends and can't help but be There any time the other needs them and also they would simultaneously kill for each other and die for each other without question, without hesitation, and more than that they would raze their entire society in revolutionary fire for each other at the drop of a hat and also they are both hiding the fact that they both believe they are doomed from each other while basically sharing the same fate? You want me to be excited about something less than this? Hm. 😐