[ SECRET POST #3989 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3989 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the 'you're like a brother to me' in context is Keith hallucinating the most important things to him , and of course Shiro's love and approval is the single most important thing to Keith, and it's Keith essentially turning down 'Shiro''s attempts to use his feelings to get him to give up because finishing what he set out to do is so important to him.

So while it's not likely to be canon, the whole scene was designed to pretty much be pure ship-fuel. (Which is probably why antis like to scream that it makes the ship incest)

[(Anonymous)]

not going to get into a shipping argument because shipping should be something everyone can enjoy freely but the average person/viewer reads calling someone a brother as thinking of them as a brother. I don't ship anything on the show but in no world does 'like a brother' mean 'deeply romantic' unless you're ancient Egyptian royalty. The wording was very clear and the writers chose that word specifically over other, vaguer ones. People should be able to ship what they want, and color their viewing of things however they like to get to that point, but 'brother' means 'sibling' to most people watching the show and most people watching the show don't have romantic feelings for siblings.

[(Anonymous)]

Not that anon, but I've had several ships in the past where one character said the other was like their brother or sister, and then the ship eneded up being canon when the character realized their feelings were deeper than that or admitted that they were lying because they didn't want to accept their feelings. Not saying Sheith will be canon, but it's a pretty common trope. IMO the problem here is that it's a gay ship, not the "like a brother" line itself. If it was het I honestly wouldn't think something like that was an issue.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, ok, you can have your opinions, but Spock/Kirk literally gave us a canon Vulcan word that means brother or lover to use with Spock and Kirk. Also

Capt. Kirk: They were humanitarians and statesmen, and they had a dream, a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars, a dream that made Mr. Spock and me brothers.
Garth: Mr. Spock, do you consider Capt. Kirk and yourself brothers?
Mr. Spock: Capt. Kirk speaks somewhat figuratively and with undue emotion; however, what he says is logical, and I do, in fact, agree with it.

Another character saying they're 'like a brother' is pretty much the biggest wink wink nod a show familiar with shipping can give you in regards to a slash ship. It means they are in love, but we're going to say it's platonic to appease the shippers. That's the problem with you young whippersnappers today, you forget fandom roots.

[(Anonymous)]

To appease the censors*

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I'm a huge Sheith shipper and I would be overjoyed if it miraculously became canon, but I think you're reading too much into it. Not every instance of a male character saying that another male character they care about is "like a brother" to him is a reference to Spock/Kirk.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying it would become canon, I'm just saying as an old-school slasher that scene read like it was slash fanservice. And for a team that's well aware of shipping culture, there's an excellent chance they put it in there on purpose knowing slash fans would pick up on it.

I mean I'm pretty sure no LGBT pairing is going to become canon because the team is subject to the Japanese parent company restrictions on what they can and can't do, so neither Sheith nor Klance ever had a chance of becoming canon. I think they just wanted to encourage fan shipping and didn't realize it would get so toxic.