Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-5430952-20190110231556/@comment-24032889-20190112022242

Gundam Legilis wrote: Gemmaniac wrote: I just wanna say that the Bmblb shippers are getting less and less tolerable. I think we should follow Vexed Viewer's lead and call them Yellow Jackets instead. Not to mention I'm left with the idea that every moment from V5 onwards is nothing but fanservice towards them.

I don't want anyone to make the mistake of "Anything that happens in Blake and Yang's interactions is fanservice simply because it followed fans shipping the two." We can't just assume causality. Correlation? Sure. Causation? Completely other story.

Miles said on RWBY Rewind for V6E6 something to the effect of "if there's something about a character that people like, we'll lean into that, but we're not going to make any blanket changes for the sake of appeasing." I guess you could interpret that as "They'll lean into Bumblebee more now."

The bigger point that I'm trying to make here is that if Bumblebee does become canon, we cannot just assume it's because the ship got popular. Monty said way back in an Afterbuzz TV interview that the CRWBY was always open to the idea of LGBT characters, but he also they need to come about naturally and be shown in a realistic way. If they've been putting Yang on that path, it's been for volumes at this point. It's very easy to see Yang as liking women.

BUT it's also a stretch to see Blake as liking women, since there's been nothing beyond friendship coming from her end, no real inklings there. I'm getting ahead of myself. Apologies. I just more or less wanted to say that I don't see Bumblebee being canon since I don't see Blake liking women, but if it does happen to be canon, we can't just assume it's some blatant fanservice on CRWBY's part.