Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-209421-20131227092845

Zolnir wrote: I think you're overestimating how much sway a fanbase actually has. If every story out there follows the 'major ships' it'll be a complete disaster train to quality, with exception to a few cases.

You misunderstand. I was talking less about the shipping, and more about the suggestion of "what if Yang was a guy". Fact is, Yang fills the role of "eye-candy" for the male viewers. As an author, I like to tease ships, but I write what I want to write, and nothing else, so the shipping doesn't faze me. The complete reversal of gender of a character oh-so-obviously female into a "trap" DOES, and I guarantee, if Monty did, there would be vast complaints. If that was to happen to a different female character, not one of the main six (including Nora and Pyrrha), then that's one thing. But not this.