Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-71.200.208.218-20160219212133/@comment-27121183-20160221083758

71.200.208.218 wrote:  Okay, I'm not doing this to sound prejudice or to start some kind of  ''"Ship Conspiracy"... ''but to me it feels like people are being nearsighted or just downright perverted. In my eyes, I only see them as two very close teammates who rely on eachother as both partners and friends. Honestly, the same thing should be said for EVERY partnership between Huntsmen/Huntresses. So, if I say I think Winter and Qrow would make a good couple, that makes me perverted?

How many times do straight ships get called out? How often do people say, 'Yeah, they're close friends and all, and have had some moments, but this guy and this gal clearly only love each other like siblings.'

People ship for all sorts of reasons. I do it because playing matchmaker with fictional characters is fun -- different personalities, backgrounds, circumstances, reactions ... Maybe some people see two close friends and think they should be a couple because of how overwhelmingly cute they are together.

But shipping also helps fill a very prominent void when it comes to portrayed gay relationships. Being there are no gay relationships on RWBY, of course people are filling in the blanks on their own. And once you have a ship, every scene that has that pairing in it just adds fuel, regardless (in spite of?) of the writers' intentions. What else are we going to do? Sit around and watch straight couples be straight? (Oh, wait, we've been doing that for decades.)

And as Blake and Yang have not had any blatantly romantic moments, everything between then can be dismissed as them just being friends, or partners, etc. It's all in the eye of the beholder. That said, I do think they have potential to be more than just partners, but I don't know if RT agrees.