Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-71.200.208.218-20160219212133/@comment-47.221.137.225-20160812195303

I don't think that Bumbleby has enough support for itself in cannon. The fanatacism of people who ship it has made me completely against it. The show's barely started and people are trying to force to characters to "be together" in a way that feels forced. Everytime I look up Whiterose, Bumbleby or any other nonheterosexual pairing in RWBY all I seem to find is just people sexualizing the characters. Nothing substantial like a date, or the people talking.

I don't think that love is going to be a real theme in RWBY.

I think that we should look to how Monty discribed it: A show about Female Strength. That, coupled with the direction the show seems to be headed in, makes me think that romance is gone. Arkos was proof that love doesn't really win out in the end like a fairy tale. The entire campus being invaded by Grimm, forcing the story to change it's major location, completely derails most of the posible cliché romances from happening.

This is show that focusing on our heroes winning a fight to save the world and prevent anarchy that would destroy everything that has been built by it's denziens. All of that being sidelined for the purpose of having a pairing officially becoming an "item" just defeats the purpose.