Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-37948927-20190325110924/@comment-4010415-20190327153057

"When Bumblebee became popular"? As someone who's been in the fandom since the Yellow Trailer came out, before Volume 1 even started, I can safely say that Bumblebee has always been a popular ship. Same with White Rose. People have been shipping Bumblebee and White Rose since before Volume 1 Episode 1 came out. The writers' decisions have nothing to do with ships suddenly becoming popular, especially when those ships have been popular from the beginning.

Second, the whole point of Yang reacting to the shirtless guys in Volume 1 is because Ruby and Yang were talking about whether or not their father would approve of them sleeping in the same room as a bunch of guys. It was more of a joke. Yang is not the lustful party girl with boundless libido that some people in the fandom like to portray her as. Also, I'm not sure if anyone actually took their clothes off in the locker room in Volume 1. It looked like they were getting their weapons ready, not changing clothes. By that time, everyone had already had breakfast (shown by Ren and Nora eating pancakes), and I imagine they had already gotten dressed before breakfast.

Third, there were actually plans in Volume 2 for Yang to tie a cherry stem in a knot with her tongue while looking at Blake, in the scene in V2E1: Best Day Ever where Ruby is talking about how they should spend their last day of vacation. The writers talk about this in the directors commentary. They even went through with putting some of the animation in, but they decided at the last minute to not include a cherry stem. We see Nora throw a cherry to Yang, who catches it in her mouth, and then Yang moves her hand to her mouth and acts like she's pulling something out, while looking directly at Blake.

As for promoting her relationship with Sun, they could be going with "Your first crush in school isn't always going to be someone you end up dating." Though, I agree that they promoted Black Sun too hard and didn't promote Bumblebee enough, if they really are going with Blake and Yang getting together.

That said, in a pre-Volume 1 livestream, Arryn (Blake's voice actress) said something... peculiar to Miles (one of the writers). They said this:

Arryn: And can I mention… that my uh… my character and another character (mumble mumble, possibly sounds like “are in a lesbian relationship”)?

Miles: No, absolutely not.

You can listen for yourself here.