all these people going "normalize good friendship" on anything jayvik related drive me insane ESPECIALLY because they would never be saying this if either of them were of the opposite gender. It's just full-on homophobia.
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I am all for really close platonic relationships! Friendships do exist in Arcane:
Loris tries to intervene in Vi’s self destruction
Sevika & Silco
Jayce caught up with Cait when her mom died
This timeline destabilizes friendships due to violence & polarizing events. The AU was full of friendships!
Not to mention Mel & Jayce do clearly still talk off screen, despite no longer fucking. It does suck that in that moment, Jayce didn’t ask what happened, but he was pretty focused on his crucial mission to destroy the hexcore/Vik at that point, plus they were interrupted by a very homoerotic fight!
It’s honestly a pet peeve of mine for all friendships to become romance in media!
But JayVik is not that problem… they are partners in more than science, clearly. The least romantic or sexual I can see them is life partners/queer platonic partners, but that is NOT a normal close male friendship!
Perhaps what we have learned here is that a close friendship is a great basis for a romantic/sexual relationship. Yes we should get to see the friendships that never take that turn in media, but when two people so clearly want one another, we take nothing away by shipping them.
I literally said “thank god” out loud in the theater when Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor did not kiss and died hugging, clearly a healthy and meaningful friendship. There were few, if any genuine romantic undertones in it, but I didn’t trust a major motion picture not to have the lead man “get the girl”
I also said “god damn it” when Rey & Kylo Ren kissed cuz it didn’t make sense, wasn’t adequately foreshadowed, & was kinda icky* from an age diff, power imbalance perspective… Enemies to lovers requires development, changing values & perspectives! The force bond scenes were not sufficient imo.
* I found it kinda icky at least, but that’s even ignoring the depraved exaggerations of power imbalance & grooming prevalent in r3yl0 fanfic, which like go off, write what you like, but Disney shouldn’t validate that when it clearly wasn’t the original plan or was so terribly executed
This argument only ever comes up when it's a gay ship, never a straight one even tho close f/m friendships are something we ACTUALLY need more representation of.
I'm a big sucker for great friendships in media just like anyone else, but reducing jayvik to "just bros being dudes" literally erases everything they went through. That is far more than just friendship, they literally intertwined souls on the astral plane! How much more romantic can it get?!
Anyways, just had to get this off my chest. 🥲 I'm just glad that most people see past the co-creators "brotherhood" bs and see what is truly going on with jayvik.
While searching for certain clips as art reference, I did come across a clip in which either Silco or Vander described the other as “we were like brothers” which honestly just makes me more interested in shipping all the “brotherly” pairs cuz they’re too cute together not to!
I’m a huge fan of friendship being important in stories, and that people can have platonic soulmates, but in this instance it genuinely feels forced. This dynamic felt romantic from the start. The fact that before Viktor left he said—
I've seen this so much for literally all of the mlm ships in arcane, its rediculous!!! cant look at the notes on basically any shipping posts on tumblr without seeing it :/
I fully agree, especially on the opposite gender part. Actually we need to normalise a good relationship between human beings irrespective of gender. These people are so delulu for believing Jayvik isn’t love. And even if, friendship is a form of love too.
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Loris tries to intervene in Vi’s self destruction
Sevika & Silco
Jayce caught up with Cait when her mom died
This timeline destabilizes friendships due to violence & polarizing events. The AU was full of friendships!
But JayVik is not that problem… they are partners in more than science, clearly. The least romantic or sexual I can see them is life partners/queer platonic partners, but that is NOT a normal close male friendship!