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I\'ve only been focusing on Felix/Sylvain since it was the current topic, but if you want to expand that I feel most of the supposed \
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I\\\'ve only been focusing on Felix/Sylvain since it was the current topic, but if you want to expand that I feel most of the supposed \\\"LGBT pairings\\\" besides with Byleth are more ambiguous than explicit except maybe Dorothea and Petra. Heck, I even feel the new Jeritza S-support is bare bones.
As for double standards between explicit homosexuality versus heterosexuality getting a pass because it\\\'s the \\\"default\\\", it\\\'s a big messy conversation that isn\\\'t for TvTropes. Short version is it sucks but that\\\'s life (asexuals have it worst, you practically have to scream the label to make an asexual character explicit. Nobody is suggesting that every unpaired ending is asexual after all).
For Felix and Slyvain what we have is an English no-homo \\\"best friends\\\" paired ending, and a Japanese ambiguous ending that confirms neither. To me that adds up to ambiguously gay with a side of heterosexual life partners. And to give English localizers some credit, I really really really doubt they\\\'d commit bisexual erasure in 2019 if the Japanese version had been explicitly romantic. Again, they added a line about Felix wanting a hug from Sylvain that wasn\\\'t in the Japanese one.
I get where you\\\'re coming from, I really want more LGBT characters too (I was the one that wrote the Unfortunate Implications entry). But I\\\'ve been burned by Japan way too many times to say this bare-bones Ho Yay is explicit confirmation of bisexuality. I do not want to support what isn\\\'t there.
And as someone with a lot of ex-military friends, from experience having two men pledge to die for each other and can\\\'t live without each other isn\\\'t automatically romantic.
As for double standards between explicit homosexuality versus heterosexuality getting a pass because it\\\'s the \\\"default\\\", it\\\'s a big messy conversation that isn\\\'t for TvTropes. Short version is it sucks but that\\\'s life (asexuals have it worst, you practically have to scream the label to make an asexual character explicit. Nobody is suggesting that every unpaired ending is asexual after all).
For Felix and Slyvain what we have is an English no-homo \\\"best friends\\\" paired ending, and a Japanese ambiguous ending that confirms neither. To me that adds up to ambiguously gay with a side of heterosexual life partners. And to give English localizers some credit, I really really really doubt they\\\'d commit bisexual erasure in 2019 if the Japanese version had been explicitly romantic. Again, they added a line about Felix wanting a hug from Sylvain that wasn\\\'t in the Japanese one.
I get where you\\\'re coming from, I really want more LGBT characters too (I was the one that wrote the Unfortunate Implications entry). But I\\\'ve been burned by Japan way too many times to say this bare-bones Ho Yay is explicit confirmation of bisexuality. I do not want to support what isn\\\'t there.
And as someone with a lot of ex-military friends, from experience having two men pledge to die for each other and can\\\'t live without each other isn\\\'t automatically romantic.
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I\'ve only been focusing on Felix/Sylvain since it was the current topic, but if you want to expand that I feel most of the supposed \
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I\\\'ve only been focusing on Felix/Sylvain since it was the current topic, but if you want to expand that I feel most of the supposed \\\"LGBT pairings\\\" besides with Byleth are more ambiguous than explicit except maybe Dorothea and Petra. Heck, I even feel the new Jeritza S-support is bare bones.
As for double standards between explicit homosexuality versus heterosexuality getting a pass because it\\\'s the \\\"default\\\", it\\\'s a big messy conversation that isn\\\'t for TvTropes. Short version is it sucks but that\\\'s life (asexuals have it worst, you practically have to scream the label to make an asexual character explicit. Nobody is suggesting that every unpaired ending is asexual after all).
For Felix and Slyvain what we have is an English no-homo \\\"best friends\\\" paired ending, and a Japanese ambiguous ending that confirms neither. To me that adds up to ambiguously gay with a side of heterosexual life partners. And to give English localizers some credit, I really really really doubt they\\\'d commit bisexual erasure in 2019 if the Japanese version wasn\\\'t meant to be read as friends. Again, they added a line about Felix wanting a hug from Sylvain that wasn\\\'t in the Japanese one.
I get where you\\\'re coming from, I really want more LGBT characters too (I was the one that wrote the Unfortunate Implications entry). But I\\\'ve been burned by Japan way too many times to say this bare-bones Ho Yay is explicit confirmation of bisexuality. I do not want to support what isn\\\'t there.
And as someone with a lot of ex-military friends, from experience having two men pledge to die for each other and can\\\'t live without each other isn\\\'t automatically romantic.
As for double standards between explicit homosexuality versus heterosexuality getting a pass because it\\\'s the \\\"default\\\", it\\\'s a big messy conversation that isn\\\'t for TvTropes. Short version is it sucks but that\\\'s life (asexuals have it worst, you practically have to scream the label to make an asexual character explicit. Nobody is suggesting that every unpaired ending is asexual after all).
For Felix and Slyvain what we have is an English no-homo \\\"best friends\\\" paired ending, and a Japanese ambiguous ending that confirms neither. To me that adds up to ambiguously gay with a side of heterosexual life partners. And to give English localizers some credit, I really really really doubt they\\\'d commit bisexual erasure in 2019 if the Japanese version wasn\\\'t meant to be read as friends. Again, they added a line about Felix wanting a hug from Sylvain that wasn\\\'t in the Japanese one.
I get where you\\\'re coming from, I really want more LGBT characters too (I was the one that wrote the Unfortunate Implications entry). But I\\\'ve been burned by Japan way too many times to say this bare-bones Ho Yay is explicit confirmation of bisexuality. I do not want to support what isn\\\'t there.
And as someone with a lot of ex-military friends, from experience having two men pledge to die for each other and can\\\'t live without each other isn\\\'t automatically romantic.
